BBCA seventh season of BBC crime drama Peaky Blinders is set to shoot this summer, and the storyline will involve a major time-jump.
The Peaky Blinders universe is set to expand later this year, with sequel movie The Immortal Man coming courtesy of Netflix, and a new series of the TV show also in the works.
Peaky Blinders revolves around the (mostly) illegal activity of the Shelby family, who operate in the criminal underworld of post-WWI Birmingham.
Cillian Murphy plays leader Thomas Shelby, while over the course of those first six seasons, his co-stars have included Tom Hardy, Stephen Graham, Helen McCrory, Sam Neill, Adrien Brody, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sam Claflin, and Paddy Considine.
Peaky Blinders Season 7 will take place in a different time period
BBCPeaky Blinders is the brain-child of showrunner Stephen Knight, and according to recent reports, he’s planning a new series that will be set in the 1950s.
That’s a sizeable time-jump for a show that kicked off proceedings in 1919 and concluded in the mid-1930s. While we know that the movie is set during WWII, we don’t know where it ends.
According to The Sun, “The new series is likely to move the Birmingham gangsters into the 50s – an era known for violent mobs of Teddy Boys and the rise of notorious East London villains the Kray twins.”
Though if Knight wants to pit the Shelbys against Ronnie and Reggie Kray, he’d have to shift the show’s location to London. And Murphy would need to be aged up, as Shelby was born around 1890, meaning he’d be in his 60s during Season 7.
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The new series will air on the BBC in the UK, with Netflix streaming the show internationally. But before then, much of the cast will be seen in The Immortal Man, opposite Peaky Blinders newcomers Rebecca Ferguson, Barry Keoghan, and Tim Roth.
For more on the show, find out why a Peaky Blinders star blamed his “intense” role for drug charges and how Peaky Blinders decried use of footage in political campaign. You can also check out the new TV shows hitting streaming this month.