Tom Hardy hints at Peaky Blinders return in forthcoming movie
Tom Hardy has shed light on whether he will join the cast of the upcoming movie spin-off of the BBC's hit period crime drama, Peaky Blinders.
The series, which starred Oscar winner Cillian Murphy as gangster Tommy Shelby, concluded in 2022 after six seasons.
It was confirmed earlier this month that the movie is coming to Netflix and will go into production later this year.
Hardy, who portrayed Alfie Solomons, the leader of a Camden Town gang in the Bafta-winning series, hinted in a recent interview that he might return.
“One hundred per cent,” he told Sky News. “Alfie will definitely make an appearance, but I don’t know when.
“And I don’t even know if he will, that’s just me punting.”
While the full cast for the film hasn't been announced, writer Steven Knight, who confirmed that Murphy will reprise his role, said it will be an “explosive chapter” in the story with “no holds barred”.
Knight shared in a statement: “I’m genuinely thrilled that this movie is about to happen.
“It will be an explosive chapter in the Peaky Blinders story. No holds barred. Full-on Peaky Blinders at war.”
Director Tom Harper, who previously directed episodes in the first season in 2013, will return to helm the film.
While Murphy, who will co-produce the film, said: “It seems like Tommy Shelby wasn’t finished with me.
“It is very gratifying to be re-collaborating with Steven Knight and Tom Harper on the film version of Peaky Blinders. This is one for the fans.”
The original series followed the Shelby family, a gang rising to prominence in post-First World War Birmingham.
Knight previously confirmed the cast are set to begin filming in Birmingham in September, and the film will follow the family into the Second World War.
Murphy won legions of fans for his performance as a member of the notorious Shelby family, before he dominated the awards season earlier this year for his starring role in Oppenheimer.
The 48-year-old took home an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a Bafta and a Screen Actors Guild award for his turn as theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer in Sir Christopher Nolan’s biopic about the father of the atomic bomb.
