Rebecca Ferguson has braved the sandworm strewn sands of Arrakis in Dune, escaped a post-apocalyptic underground bunker in sci-fi series Silo, and trotted the globe as agent Ilsa Faust in the Mission: Impossible movies. Now, by order of the Peaky Blinders (and Netflix), Ferguson is heading for wartime Birmingham next. Per Deadline's reporting, the Doctor Sleep actor is set to join Cillian Murphy in Steven Knight's upcoming feature length follow-up to his Birmingham mob drama Peaky Blinders.
Wild Rose director and Peaky Blinders alum Tom Harper is set to direct the film — which is due to start filming in Birmingham this September — from a Knight-penned script. And whilst Ferguson's role and the movie's plot remain a closely guarded secret for now, we do know the picture will be set after the onset of World War II and once again see Murphy take on the role of Brum mobster Tommy Shelby. When Empire spoke to Knight way back in 2022 about his plans for a Blinders film, the showrunner and creator revealed the Shelby clan's story would "go into and beyond the Second World War" with its first feature. “I think of [the] sixth series as the end of the beginning,” Knight told us then, explaining how the success of the show and his own appetite for continuing its story had expanded Blinders' horizons beyond its initial "Britain between the wars" premise.
"I’m genuinely thrilled that this movie is about to happen," said Knight in a statement shared when his movie was first given the greenlight. "It will be an explosive chapter in the Peaky Blinders story. No holds barred. Full-on Peaky Blinders at war.” With Murphy back in the saddle so to speak, Ferguson entering the fray, and Knight and Harper at the helm once more, it looks like the Peaky Blinders movie — like Chester Campbell's fury — will be a thing to behold. Bring it on!