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Begging works! Last year, Margot Robbie used her “Actors on Actors” interview with Cillian Murphy to implore him (“please do it, please”) to reprise his role as Tommy fucking Shelby. After years of reports and rumors, Netflix confirmed on June 4 that it has officially greenlit a Peaky Blinders spinoff movie starring Murphy. The currently-untitled project will be made in association with BBC Film. Original show creator Steven Knight will write the script, and Tom Harper (who directed several episodes in season one) will direct. “It seems like Tommy Shelby wasn’t finished with me,” Murphy said in a statement. “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.” But mostly Margot, right?
Peaky Blinders, which concluded in 2022 after six seasons, followed a crime gang in post-WWI Birmingham, England. In the finale, Shelby rode a horse off into an ambiguous ending. Netflix has not officially shared any plot details about the upcoming film, but Knight told Deadline in 2022 that a spinoff movie would be set in World War II. He also recently added to Netflix that the movie will be an “explosive chapter” and described it as full-on “Peaky Blinders at war,” so that seems to check out. We just hope this doesn’t mean Shelby’s iconic haircut will be covered up by a combat helmet.
