A feature-length Peaky Blinders film is due to hit screens later this year – but a new interview suggests it might not be the end we expected…
When a beloved TV programme makes the jump to the big screen (metaphorical or otherwise), it usually means the creatives behind it want a larger, more flexible platform to finish their story off. That, or the cast of your favourite sitcom fancy a free trip to the Algarve.
But speaking to BBC Breakfast this morning, Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has suggested the upcoming film in his Brummie bad-lad universe likely won’t be the last we’ve seen of the Shelby clan and their many friends/violent enemies.
“I would say this, wouldn’t I, but it’s fantastic,” Knight told the BBC about the early rushes he’d seen of the film, describing it as “a very fitting way to end this part of the Peaky story”
“It’s not over, let’s just put it like that. I’m not allowed to announce it,” he announced, “but I’m just saying that the world of Peaky will continue.”
Peaky Blinders ran for six seasons on the BBC from 2013 to 2022, with a feature length film in development since 2020. Filming wrapped in Birmingham on 13th December, and the project is expected to arrive on Netflix later in 2025 – despite being a BBC Film production. Knight’s other TV miniseries, A Thousand Blows, is hitting Disney+ on 21st February.
Asked on Radio 4’s Today Programme if this kind of sprawling period drama like Peaky Blinders could still be made by the BBC, Knight replied: “Peaky is a BBC show and there was no issue with making that at the BBC. I’m a huge BBC loyalist, as I think you know.
“I love to work with the BBC creatively. There is no place like it. I think the BBC should be strutting on the world stage amongst the streamers, more so than it does.”
He continued: “There are issues of money. I think the BBC has a history of making do and making the best of what they have.
“I’m working with the BBC on another series now, this [A Thousand Blows] just happened to come along from a different direction.”
A Thousand Blows is streaming on Disney+ from 21st February.
