Cillian Murphy will “positively” return for the ‘Peaky Blinders’ film.
The BBC drama’s creator Steven Knight has confirmed that the ‘Oppenheimer’ star will reprise his position as gangster Tommy Shelby within the big-screen adaptation of the drama that can be filmed later this yr.
Talking to Birmingham World on the premiere of his new BBC collection ‘This City’, Knight mentioned: “He positively is returning for it. We’re taking pictures it in September simply down the highway in Digbeth.”
The Oscar-winner’s return as Tommy Shelby is unsurprising as he has usually talked about his curiosity in taking part in the character in a movie so long as the script was of adequate high quality.
Cillian advised Rolling Stone UK final yr: “If there’s extra story there, I would like to do it.
“Nevertheless it needs to be proper. Steve Knight wrote 36 hours of tv, and we left on such a excessive. I am actually pleased with that final collection. So, it must really feel reputable and justified to do extra.”
The 47-year-old actor added to the Irish Star final month: “I’ve all the time mentioned that if Knight delivers a script that I do know he can ship, as a result of he’s such an outstanding author, I will be there…. If we need to watch 50-year-old Tommy Shelby, I can be there. Let’s do it.”
‘Peaky Blinders’ aired to important acclaim on the BBC between 2013 and 2022 and Knight has all the time been clear about his plans to adapt the Birmingham-set collection for the cinema.
He advised Esquire: “The movie, I do know precisely what it is about. And I do know what two tales it’ll inform.
“What is going to occur after that, I need that to rely upon the movie. For all we all know any person goes to come out – I believe I do know who it’ll be.”
