It’s been a few months since we last, ostensibly permanently, said the Shelby family farewell on television.
Peaky Blinders’ sixth and last season came to an end on Sunday, April 3, 2022, with a feature-length finale titled Lock and Key.
For the cursed Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) and his friends, the episode was full of turns that ended some storylines while beginning others for the film adaptation.
The sixth season of the BBC gangster drama was the most introspective yet, putting a strong emphasis on Tommy’s inner problems as he struggled with significant setbacks, political manoeuvring, and his own tormented psyche.
Even if some of the Peaky Blinders cast members would have agreed to appear in the sequel film, there was a lot of speculation about the futures of particular characters going into the finale. This was understandable given the show’s historically harsh past.
The drama’s creator Steven Knight had previously stated that a seventh season was in the works, but things changed during the sixth season’s filming. So why did Peaky Blinders change its direction?
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The scheduling for Peaky Blinders season 7 was cancelled for a variety of reasons.
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic were one of the main causes.
Steven Knight stated, “The original intention was to do seven series, but COVID has stolen a year from us, and we felt what would be a great idea is to, almost in place of that seventh series, is to go onto the big screen.” Steven Knight made this revelation while appearing on BBC News in the early 2021.
He later admitted to the BBC that the pandemic and the terrible passing of adored actress Helen McCrory, who portrayed Polly Gray in the series, pushed planning for the feature film to be expedited before the premiere of season 6.
We lost a year because of the pandemic, which is a dullly practical explanation “Knight made known. “These events are organised in a manner similar to turning an oil tanker around.
Added him: “We simply felt that everything seemed to be moving toward doing what I’m calling “the end of the beginning,” especially with Helen [McCrorypassing. ]’s
“Let’s finish the introduction before starting the movie. Let’s then see where we end up with spin-offs.”
The Peaky Blinders movie will be the first and foremost continuation of Peaky Blinders.
There won’t be a seventh season of the main Peaky Blinders television series, but there will be a feature film and perhaps a spin-off series.
The movie is expected to start filming in the upcoming months, and Cillian Murphy and Paul Anderson are reportedly returning as Tommy and Arthur Shelby, respectively.
What will happen to Thomas Shelby next in the world of Peaky Blinders? Stephen Graham’s potential return to the franchise as Hayden Stagg has also been alluded at by BBC Knight.
In an interview with Metro, Knight praised Graham’s performance, saying, “I want to keep him as part of it moving forward. It’s been wonderful.”
Knight revealed the plot of the stories in an exclusive interview with RadioTimes.com, saying: “I know what’s going to happen in those stories and it’s about a sort of forgotten event that happened in the Second World War, which Peakys are going to be involved in.”
Seasons 1 through 6 of Peaky Blinders are currently available on BBC iPlayer, while seasons 1 through 5 are on Netflix.