Tommy Shelby is officially back.
Netflix shared a first look at Cillian Murphy in character as the notorious gangster on Monday, alongside the news that production on the film has started. Murphy and Steven Knight, the creator of the long-running series about the Peaky Blinders gang in post-World War I Birmingham, also posed for a photo together on set.
The upcoming “Peaky Blinders” movie will be directed by Tom Harper, who previously helmed several episodes of the series. “Peaky Blinders” first premiered in 2013 on BBC Two, and Netflix eventually acquired the rights to release the show in the U.S. Its sixth and final season aired in 2022, and in June it was revealed that a feature film was in the works.
“It seems like Tommy Shelby wasn’t finished with me…It is very gratifying to be recollaborating with Steven Knight and Tom Harper on the film version of ‘Peaky Blinders.’ This is one for the fans,” Murphy said in a statement at the time.
Knight wrote the “Peaky Blinders” film, and also co-produces alongside Murphy, Caryn Mandabach and Guy Heeley. Executive producers include Harper, David Kosse, Jamie Glazebrook, Andrew Warren and David Mason.
Though the rest of the movie’s cast has been kept under wraps, it was revealed last month that Murphy’s fellow Irishman, Barry Keoghan, has an undisclosed role in the film.
Murphy returns to the world of “Peaky Blinders” an Oscar winner, having won the best actor award last year for his portrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, in Christopher Nolan’s historical epic “Oppenheimer.”
From Variety US