Peaky Blinders creator confirms film will begin production next year

A Peaky Blinders feature film will soon be in the works with filming poised to begin ‘in the next eighteen months’, the show’s creator has confirmed today.

Just three months after Tommy Shelby staged his own cremation and rode off into the horizon to start a new life, fans of the BBC drama have been eager to see if the show’s creator, Steven Knight, would stick to his promise of a Peaky Blinders-inspired film.

Well, today the Birmingham-born screen writer has delighted fans far and wide by confirming that he is hard at work at getting a Peaky Blinders film up and off the ground.

During an appearance on Heart Breakfast today (July 28th), Knight said: “I can tell you that there’s going to be a film, a feature film.”

And, when asked if the film was definitely confirmed, Birmingham-born Knight replied: “Yep, by me, right now.”

He even confirmed that he was close to finishing the script, adding: “I’m nearly done writing it, and we’re going to shoot it… I’m setting up some film and television studios in Digbeth in Birmingham.”

Knight also gave an insight into how long fans will be waiting for the film, telling the radio show: “I’m hoping that we’ll be shooting within eighteen months. And then obviously we put it together.

“I mean it will depend on the distributors and things when it goes out. But I’m just really looking forward to having a Peaky event where people can watch it communally.”

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Knight didn’t give too much away in regards to the casting of the film, though he did reveal there will be some familiar faces returning.

He added: “And some new faces that will hopefully be quite surprising.”

Knight has previously toyed with the idea of a Peaky Blinders feature film, with him once saying it would be a ‘very specific story’ that’s ‘based on a true story from the Second World War’.

The sixth and final season of Peaky Blinders concluded back in April after nine years with the BBC.