Peaky Blinders: everything we know about the film including plot and cast

After six incredible seasons, award-winning BBC gangster drama Peaky Blinders is returning with a feature-length movie in the works that will act as the official final chapter in the Shelby saga. Want to know more? Keep reading to find out everything we know so far about the Peaky Blinders movie...

What will the Peaky Blinders movie be about?

While exact details on the film's plot are being kept under wraps for now, creator Steven Knight recently revealed that he plans to focus on an "untold" World War Two story which sounds incredibly exciting!

He told RadioTimes.com: "I know what's going to happen in those stories and it's about a sort of untold story that happened in the Second World War, which Peakys are going to be involved in." He added to Deadline that had the series continued for a seventh instalment, he "probably wouldn't" have ventured into such a big topic, but "because it's a movie [...] I think we need a sort of gear change."

Director Tom Harpe told Netflix: "When I first directed Peaky Blinders over 10 years ago, we didn’t know what the series would become, but we did know that there was something in the alchemy of the cast and the writing that felt explosive. Peaky has always been a story about family — and so it’s incredibly exciting to be reuniting with Steve and Cillian to bring the movie to audiences across the world on Netflix.

"There’s a great feeling of anticipation and excitement amongst our outstanding cast and crew. We’re grateful to the fans for getting us to this point and believe this next chapter is going to deliver something extraordinary."

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Who will star in the Peaky Blinders movie?

Given that season six ended with Tommy alive and well rather than terminally ill, as he had been led to believe, it seems viewers can expect to see Cillian Murphy make a triumphant comeback as the leader of the Brummie-based gang. Speaking about the movie, he said: "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."

It has also been confirmed that Stephen Graham, Sophie Rundle, Ned Dennehy, Packy Lee and Ian Peck will all be returning for the exciting movie.