Cillian Murphy will “positively” return for the Peaky Blinders movie. The BBC drama’s creator Steven Knight has confirmed that the Oppenheimer star will reprise his perform as gangster Tommy Shelby throughout the big-screen adaptation of the drama that may possible be filmed later this yr.
Talking to Birmingham World on the premiere of his new BBC sequence This City, Knight acknowledged: “He positively is returning for it. We’re taking footage it in September merely down the freeway in Digbeth.”
The Oscar winner’s return as Tommy Shelby is unsurprising as he has sometimes talked about his curiosity in having fun with the character in a movie so lengthy as the script was of ample prime quality.
Murphy knowledgeable Rolling Stone UK remaining yr: “If there’s additional story there, I would really like to do it.
“Nevertheless it should be correct. Steve Knight wrote 36 hours of television, and we left on such a extreme. I’m truly happy with that remaining sequence. So, it should actually really feel skilled and justified to do additional.”
The 47-year-old actor added to the Irish Star remaining month: “I’ve always acknowledged that if Knight delivers a script that I do know he can ship, as a results of he is such an distinctive creator, I can be there… If we want to watch 50-year-old Tommy Shelby, I’ll possible be there. Let’s do it.”
Peaky Blinders aired to important acclaim on the BBC between 2013 and 2022 and Knight has always been clear about his plans to adapt the Birmingham-set sequence for the cinema.
He knowledgeable Esquire: “The movie, I do know exactly what it’s about. And I do know what two tales it will inform.
“What’s going to happen after that, I would really like that to depend on the movie. For all everyone knows anybody goes to come out – I really feel I do know who it will be.”