'Peaky Blinders' Movies and Spinoffs Are In The Works

Long before Peaky Blinders Season 6 debuted in the U.K., series creator Steven Knight was already talking about a follow-up movie. The series, which Knight once claimed he wanted to cover the entire interwar period, ended in 1934 at the end of the final season, leaving half a decade still to cover. "Six seasons and a movie" is a fundamental goal for many series nowadays (Hello Downton Abbey!), and Knight's talk of a big-screen follow-up seemed to fit that mold. (It's also a lot easier to get a cast that size back for six weeks of filming instead of three months or more to do a TV season.)

Initially planned for seven seasons but reduced by one due to the shutdowns and lockdowns, Knight has a season's worth of story for a feature film. Talking to Entertainment Weekly back in February 2022, Knight called the TV series' final season "the end of the beginning" and said a movie would also queue up new stories. "We're going to end the series as it is at the moment, but we're going to do the movie, which we'll shoot in 18 months, maybe a little bit longer," Knight said.

The delay in kicking off a movie is most likely figuring in potential COVID shutdowns this winter and banking on booking the cast for late spring/early summer next year. But it also gives the cast a chance to walk away and do some other projects. (Knight is currently working on the upcoming Great Expectations, for example.) It's the same move Downton made after going off the air, giving the actors time away, so when they all came back together, it was more appreciated than if it had been directly after the show wrapped.