Peaky Blinders spin-off film starring Cillian Murphy coming to Netflix

Netflix has officially announced its Peaky Blinders spin-off movie.

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.”

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.

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.

When will filming start & who else will star?

During the premiere for This Town, Knight told us that filming of the Peaky Blinders movie will begin in September 2024 at his Digbeth Loc Studios.

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 six months time, a potential release for the movie in cinemas could well be on the cards for 2025.

During our interview with Knight at the This Town premiere, he also hinted at who will be in the movie, saying: “In series six we’re bringing in the new generation, and they are going to be part of what happens in the film. I think it’s finding those actors that you just watch and you think, there you go. There’s the future.”

Liverpudlian actor Stephen Graham made his Peaky Blinders debut in series 6, as did Amber Anderson who plays Lady Diana Mitford, and James Frecheville who starred as Jack Nelson - meaning all three could feature in the film based on Knight’s comments.

It's unclear whether Paul Anderson, who play's Tommy's brother Arthur, will return for the movie.