“Peaky Blinders” formally got here to an finish following its sixth season in April 2022. It was introduced in January 2021 that the award-winning collection could be wrapping up, and actually, it was a robust capsule to swallow. The information got here as a shock to followers (ahem, us), seeing because the present’s creator, Stephen Knight, instructed PA Media Group in 2019 that he would start writing season seven proper after ending up the sixth. “Then I’m looking at spinoffs, maybe a movie,” he mentioned.
Speaking to Deadline about the way forward for the interval gangster drama in January 2021, Knight confirmed that whereas the collection would end with season six, the Shelby household’s story would not finish with it. “We believe this will be the best series of all and are sure that our amazing fans will love it,” Knight mentioned. “While the TV series will be coming to an end, the story will continue in another form.”
Now, we now have some readability on precisely what that different type will probably be, and yep, it is the film we have been banging on about. “COVID changed our plans,” Knight instructed Deadline in January 2021, simply at some point after saying the collection could be wrapping. “But I can say that my plan from the beginning was to end ‘Peaky’ with a movie. That is what is going to happen.”
As of October 2023, particulars surrounding the film are nonetheless unclear, although it seems the movie remains to be occurring.
If you need to compensate for, or rewatch, each single episode of “Peaky Blinders,” you’ll find it streaming on BBC iPlayer within the UK and on Netflix in every single place else.
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