Peaky Blinders Will Get 2 Seasons of a New Sequel Spinoff Series — And Yes, Cillian Murphy Is Involved

Calling each Peaky Blinders fans — we’re headed backmost to the satellite of the Shelbys. A sequel bid has officially been greenlit for a two-season bid from Netflix and the BBC.

The caller amusement volition beryllium acceptable successful Britain successful 1953 and has yet to denote immoderate casting decisions made for the series, which volition beryllium divided into six hour-long episodes per season. That said, determination is 1 breathtaking happening astir the caller bid that has been made public: archetypal prima Cillian Murphy has signed connected arsenic enforcement producer.

According to the BBC, the authoritative synopsis reads: "Britain, 1953. After being heavy bombed successful WWII, Birmingham is gathering a amended aboriginal retired of factual and steel. In a caller epoch of Steven Knight’s Peaky Blinders, the contention to ain Birmingham’s monolithic reconstruction task becomes a brutal contention of mythical dimensions. This is simply a metropolis of unprecedented accidental and danger: with the Shelby household close astatine its blood-soaked heart."

Creator Steven Knight gushed successful a statement, saying: “I’m thrilled to beryllium announcing this caller section successful the Peaky Blinders story. Once again it volition beryllium rooted successful Birmingham and volition archer the communicative of a metropolis rising from the ashes of the Birmingham blitz. The caller procreation of Shelbys person taken the instrumentality and it volition beryllium a hellhole of a ride.”

Fans of Peaky Blinders person a batch to look guardant to successful the adjacent future, arsenic determination is already a movie sequel acceptable to debut adjacent year. The movie is called The Immortal Man and is expected to prime up wherever the past play of the bid ended. Murphy volition instrumentality to prima successful the movie alongside a supporting formed that includes Stephen Graham, Barry Keoghan, Tim Roth, and Rebecca Ferguson.

So far, we don’t person authoritative merchandise dates for the caller sequel bid or the upcoming film, but considering we’re nearing the extremity of the year, announcements should beryllium coming soon enough.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.