For fans of Steve Knight‘s series, which has a cult status around the world, anticipating what the Peaky Blinders film will be like is irrelevant because what really matters is that we will actually have the feature film, something that the showrunner promised from the beginning. And yes, Cillian Murphy has always been our darling.

The series premiered in 2013 and said goodbye to the air in 2022, with an open and somewhat irregular conclusion. Tommy Shelby is an anti-hero with a plan, a man who sacrifices everything and everyone to achieve his goal. His criminal empire came from the streets of Birmingham, dominated England, and made him a millionaire, but also a prominent politician, with a presence in Parliament. His list of enemies is huge and includes relatives and enemies, costing the lives of the women he loves (aunt, wife, daughter) and we say goodbye to him in the style of ‘Peaky Blinders’: when we think it’s over, he turns the tables. In other words, instead of dying as expected, he survives and is last seen on a white horse riding somewhere we don’t know.

His business dealings with his rivals are still not 100% resolved and Knight always promised that Peaky Blinders would only conclude with the end of the Second World War. If the family business is being led by Tommy’s surprising bastard son, a novelty at the end of the series, in the political part the blue-blooded neo-Nazis are on the loose, so there is a lot to do.

It would be interesting if the film started where the series left off, but that is an expectation that has not yet been exactly confirmed. Yes, Cillian, who went from actor to actor AND producer of the series, is confirmed as Tommy Shelby, but no other names are, not even Anya Taylor-Joy or Paul Anderson, who were prominent in the final stretch of the story. Not even Sam Claflin, who played the villain Oswald Mosley.

The announcement of the entry of Rebecca Ferguson and Barry Keoghan, although welcome, is somewhat confusing. Who will they play in the story?

“We have a few more announcements coming,” Knight said in an interview in early September, only adding that the script places Peaky Blinders “in World War II” and that it is “very good.”

Based on what Steven Knight and the last season delivered, my bet is that the new generation of Shelbys would be central to the plot, but, apparently, not so much. Barry Keoghan seems to be trying to calm the most anxious ones by teasing in an interview: “I read the script and I loved it,” he warned. “It’s going to be epic.”

The show’s producer, Caryn Mandabach, told Netflix that the story changes have to do with the fact that the series was pretty clear about some of its conclusions. “The decision was to make the movie separate from the TV series because it’s pretty clear what’s happening to everyone at the end,” she said. “We’re hoping to make a movie that’s not set in the same period. It’s not going to be 1938. We’re going to jump ahead a few years like we do every year.”

So much mystery!

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