According to a media site, Oscar-winning actor Cillian Murphy has returned to his legendary role as Tommy Shelby in the movie “Peaky Blinders.”
Steven Knight is the creator of the Birmingham mobster drama “Peaky Blinders.” Netflix, the massive streaming service, revealed on Monday that a full-length film, helmed by Tom Harper and taking place a few years after the conclusion of the series, is formally under production.
The cast of the movie, which stars Murphy, Paul Anderson, Helen McCrory, Tom Hardy, and Joe Cole, is drawn from a six-season television series. Rebecca Ferguson from Dune and Barry Keoghan from Saltburn have both been confirmed for the film thus far.
Tommy Shelby is returning, “by order of the Peaky Blinders,” the announcement said. On set, Cillian Murphy and Steven Knight rejoin as the next Netflix project officially goes into production.”
In a statement, Murphy stated, “This is one for the fans.”
Season six of the show concluded in 2022, just before the Irishman went on to star in Oppenheimer, directed by Christopher Nolan, for which he won an Academy Award.
According to the media outlet, Murphy’s most recent movie, “Small Things Like These,” which portrays the atrocities of the Irish church’s violent workhouses for unmarried mothers, is scheduled for publication on November 1 in the UK and November 8 in the US.