Peaky Blinders film: When filming is set to begin in Birmingham for Cillian Murphy's Netflix blockbuster

It’s not long now until filming gets underway for Steven Knight’s new Peaky Blinders film.

Netflix officially announced its Peaky Blinders spin-off movie in June with a post on its social media channels.

In a post on X/Twitter, Netflix posted a photo of the Peaky Blinders film script with the caption: “Tommy Shelby returns. A Peaky Blinders Film starring Cillian Murphy is coming to Netflix.”

The account also posted a message from Oscar winner Murphy. It read: “It seems like Tommy Shelby wasn’t finished with me…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.”

When will filming begin and where will the movie be shot?

It’s exciting news for Peaky fans, and comes after the show’s creator Steven Knight exclusively revealed to Birmingham World back in March that Murphy was set to reprise his iconic role as the Birmingham gang leader.

Knight told us that filming will begin in just two months in September in Birmingham at his Digbeth Loc Studios.

Speaking to us at the premiere of his BBC show This Town, Knight said: "He [Cillian] definitely is returning for it. We're shooting it in September just down the road in Digbeth.”

The final series of the BBC show aired from February to April 2022 after a gap of almost three years, following delays caused by the pandemic and the death of one of the show’s main cast, Helen McCrory, who played Aunt Polly.

The Steven Knight-founded multimillion-pound TV and film studio opened last year and part of This Town was filmed at the studio. So, with filming set to begin in just two time, a potential release for the movie in cinemas could well be on the cards for 2025.