The world of Peaky Blinders will continue beyond the upcoming sixth season with a movie, and creator Steven Knight has confirmed that Tommy Shelby will feature. Speaking with Digital Spy, Knight revealed that the likes of Tommy Shelby and his brother Arthur would continue to be part of the Peaky Blinders saga beyond the final season, and even offered some details regarding the direction of the movie.

"It's impossible to say yet. But the film – yes.”

As well as offering the first confirmation that Peaky Blinders Season 6 will not be the last time we see the likes of Cillian Murphy as the infamous gang leader, Steven Knight teased the further adventures set within the world of Peaky Blinders. And it sounds like he is eager to carry on telling these stories for some time yet.

"We're going to make a film – a feature film – which will move the world on, and then once we've moved the world on into the Second World, we'll see where that takes us. It's now a situation where the world… you know, around the world, the Peaky world, it's got so much energy, and so much following, and such a huge fanbase, that you think: 'Well, let's just carry on.' So we do."

Knight continued to dish on the Peaky Blinders movie, revealing that they are already in talks with actors to star, with the intention no doubt being to branch off into spinoffs using both known and new talent.

"There are so many people, so many great actors, that we are already, sort of, in conversation with for the film, and for whatever follows. But I think what we want to do is keep surprising people, and keep breaking new talent. Because it's all out there, and there is a sort of consistency – what we're doing is finding really good actors from a working-class sort of background, and telling that story. That's what we're trying to do."

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The Peaky Blinders Movie Due to go Into Production Next Year

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While the news of Tommy Shelby making an appearance in the Peaky Blinders movie will come as a relief to fans, it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. The movie will stand in place of a planned seventh season of the show, with production due to start in 2023, and is likely to wrap up Tommy’s story before launching the franchise into spinoffs.

Thus, the sixth and now final series of Peaky Blinders will attempt to tell the most epic story yet, spanning the Second World War. “It was always Britain between the wars – how the lesson from one war was not learned and was repeated,” Steven Knight previously revealed. “It’s also the end of empire: we enter the Second World War and by the end of it, there is no empire, really. But I… have revised the scope of what it is. It will now go into and beyond the Second World War. Because I just think the energy that is out there in the world for this, I want to keep it going, and I want to see how this can progress beyond that.”

It was recently revealed that Peaky Blinders season 6 will land on the BBC on February 27, 2022.