Steven Knight, creator and showrunner of hit series Peaky Blinders, has teased a long and difficult road lies ahead for Tommy Shelby (played by Cillian Murphy) in the final two series of the show. According to Steven, Tommy will survive what’s to come, as he is “immortal”.
The fifth series of smash-hit drama Peaky Blinders ended on a tantalising cliffhanger, with Tommy Shelby on the verge of taking his own life.
Viewers in their flat caps were on the edge of their seats as Tommy wrestled with his inner demons.
Enveloped in a physical and mental fog, he encountered his dead wife Grace (Annabelle Wallis) before pointing his sidearm to his head.
In crashed the credits, leaving fans wondering if Tommy was able to survive his own troubled state.
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Now Steven Knight, the show’s creator and showrunner, has spoken about Tommy’s propensity for survival.
During an interview at the National Television Awards, Steven was asked if Tommy might be added to the show’s long list of fatalities.
Amused by the idea of killing Tommy off, Steven replied: “Dead? Never – he’s immortal.”
Tommy’s habit of chain smoking will more likely claim him than a bullet or a blade.
The sixth series of the drama is currently in production, with a seventh to follow.
Steven admitted he has the Shelby family’s future fully mapped: “I know how it’s going to end, this particular incarnation of the family story. I know that it’s going to end at the beginning of the Second World War.”
However this doesn’t mean Steven will then be finished with the Shelbys or their associates.
He’s tempted by the concept of a spin-off: “But after that, I think that the momentum is such that maybe we will continue with other bits of the story…”
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This spin-off might not be written for television, either: “I’m writing series six at the moment. That’s almost done. Then I’m going to do series seven, then I’m looking at spin-offs, maybe a movie. It’s up to us. It’s up to the people involved.”
What faces Tommy in the sixth series, says Steven, will push him to the very limit: “Trouble, trouble and trouble is what’s coming – with a bit of happiness as well.”
That happiness may be the start of a redemptive arc for the World War I veteran, who has struggled with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: “I’ve always intended at the very, very end there will be redemption, there will be resolution, and there will be a kind of happiness, but along the way there will be trouble.”
There is certainly happiness among the show’s fans, as they have been thrilled to see filming start on the sixth series.
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In a post on social media he showed the first page to the script for the first episode, the details of which have sparked online debate.
“Black Day” is the title of the next episode, leaving fans to wonder what it might mean.
Peaky Blinders is streaming now on Netflix.
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