The cast list for the Peaky Blinders film has been updated – with new faces joining the Netflix production. Irish actor Barry Keoghan, known for his work on Saltburn, Eternals, and Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin, joins Cillian Murphy, who reprises his role as gangster Tommy Shelby.
Swedish actor Rebecca Ferguson, known for her work on the Dune and Mission Impossible franchises, was also confirmed in the cast (via The Irish Post). The feature-length film will be directed by Tom Harper, an established filmmaker with links to the first series of Peaky Blinders, with production set to commence later in 2024.
“When I first directed Peaky Blinders over 10 years ago, we didn’t know what the series would become, but we did know that there was something in the alchemy of the cast and the writing that felt explosive,” Harper says.
The crime drama, which ran on the BBC between 2013 to 2022 for six series, Harper says “has always been a story about family — and so it’s incredibly exciting to be reuniting with Steve and Cillian to bring the movie to audiences across the world on Netflix.”
Series creator Steven Knight says he’s “genuinely thrilled” that the film is in development, calling it “an explosive chapter in the Peaky Blinders story. No holds barred. Full on Peaky Blinders at war.”
The original Peaky Blinders cast featured the likes of the late Helen McCrory, Joe Cole, Annabelle Wallis, Paul Anderson, Tom Hardy, Finn Cole, Sophie Rundle, and Sam Claflin.
