Cillian Murphy to return for Peaky Blinders movie, series creator confirms

Filming for the Peaky Blinders movie will start in September 

Cillian Murphy, as Tommy Shelby, on the set of series five of Peaky Blinders. Picture: Caryn Mandabach Productions

Oscar winner Cillian Murphy is set to return to screens for the Peaky Blinders movie, the creator of the show has confirmed. 

Speaking at the premiere of his new series, This Town, Steven Knight confirmed Murphy's return and also revealed that they would be shooting in England in September. 

"He definitely is returning for it. We're shooting it in September just down the road in Digbeth,” he said.

During a conversation with Margot Robbie for Variety’s Actors on Actors series late last year, the Oppenheimer star spoke about the possibility of reprising his role for a Peaky Blinders movie.

After Robbie asked him if there was going to be a spinoff movie, Murphy said: “I mean, I’m open to the idea. I’ve always thought that if there’s more story to tell.” 

Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby Picture: Robert Viglasky 

Knight also praised Murphy for his recent win at the Academy Awards for his role in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. The Ballintemple native became the first Irish-born person to win best actor at the Oscars.

"It was so deserved. I mean he's brilliant, and he's such a great human being and he leads the line when we're shooting and he's so level-headed and straight-forward,” he told Birmingham World. 

“He deserves everything he gets."

Murphy starred in the series as Tommy Shelby, the leader of the Birmingham-based gang, the Peaky Blinders.

The series — which originally aired on BBC before moving over to Netflix — is set in post-World War I England and is loosely based on a gang with the same name.