Thomas Shelby is back. On Tuesday, Netflix announced that Cillian Murphy is returning to the world of Peaky Blinders in a film adaptation of the streamer's acclaimed series. "It seems like Tommy Shelby wasn't finished with me.
..It is very gratifying to be recollaborating with Steven Knight and Tom Harper on the film version of Peaky Blinders .
This is one for the fans," Murphy declared in a statement shared to Netflix's X page (formerly Twitter) . Director Tom Harper will helm the feature, a reunion between Harper and Murphy after the filmmaker helmed episodes of the show's first season in 2013. "When I first directed Peaky Blinders over 10 years ago, we didn't know what the series would become, but we did know that there was something in the alchemy of the cast and the writing that felt explosive.
Peaky has always been a story about family - and so it's incredibly exciting to be reuniting with Steve and Cillian to bring the movie to audiences across the world on Netflix," Harper added in a statement. Peaky Blinders ran for six seasons from 2013 through 2022. Created by Steven Knight and based on true events, the British gangster drama starred Murphy as mobster Thomas Shelby, who returns to Birmingham after World War I.
It's a special return for Murphy, who earned his first Academy Award for his starring role as physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer -- the theoretical physicist credited as the "father of the atomic bomb" -- in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer . Murphy also won the G.