In casting news that's sure to excite fans, Rebecca Ferguson has become the first major name to join the Peaky Blinders movie.
Deadline reports that the Mission: Impossible and Silo star will join Cillian Murphy in the long-awaited Netflix movie. We don't know Ferguson's role yet, but the fact she's in it is good enough for us.
Murphy will, of course, be reprising his role as Tommy Shelby from the BBC series, while the movie has been written by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight. Tom Harper, who also directed on the show, will be directing the movie. Filming is set to get underway later this year.
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The Peaky Blinders movie was officially confirmed in June 2024 after long-running speculation that the show would return for a feature-length outing following the end of its sixth – and final – season.
"It seems like Tommy Shelby wasn't finished with me," Murphy said at the time. "It is very gratifying to be recollaborating with Steven Knight and Tom Harper on the film version of Peaky Blinders. This is one for the fans."
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Knight added: "I'm genuinely thrilled that this movie is about to happen. It will be an explosive chapter in the Peaky Blinders story. No holds barred. Full-on Peaky Blinders at war."
It's unclear yet whether other Peaky Blinders stars will return for the movie, but if filming does get underway this year, we're sure it won't be long to find out more.
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Before the movie was officially announced in June, Knight had said that filming would start this September.
We don't know anything about the plot, but the creator has promised that the movie will be worth the wait. "The budget will be bigger, but also because we know we're ending this chapter, we're all going to try to do our best," he teased.
"I hope [fans will be] shocked and delighted and horrified and then delighted again and then shocked again!"
The Peaky Blinders movie does not yet have a release date.
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