Peaky Blinders season six is the forthcoming final outing of the hugely popular BBC drama. This has started filming Cillian Murphy reprising his role as Tommy Shelby once more.
After originally hinting at a release date of” perhaps ancient 2021″ for season six, manager Anthony Byrne triumphed at a late 2021 or premature 2022 release, telling Digital Spy: “If we did start shooting in January (2021), we wouldn’t end until May or June and then it is just another 6 months of editing,” he added, hinting at a late 2021 or early 2022 release.
Despite that Season 5 finish, Cillian Murphy is — shocker — verified to return as Tommy Shelby. Barring some dramatic twist, the rest of the Shelby household must return also. That includes Paul Anderson as Arthur Shelby, Helen McCrory as Polly Gray, Sophie Rundle as Ada Thorne, Finn Cole as Michael Gray, Harry Kirton as Finn Shelby, and Natasha O’Keeffe as Lizzie Stark. We could also reasonably expect Packy Lee to reunite as Johnny Doggs, Jordan Bolger as Isaiah Jesus, and Charlie Murphy as Jessie Eden.
We’ll also probably be seeing more of Sam Claflin’s Oswald Mosley. Per Digital Spy and speaking to BBC Sounds’ Obsessed with Peaky Blinders podcast, manager Anthony Byrne said that Mosley and certain “people in his world” are a part of Season 6, in addition to Anya Taylor-Joy’s Gina Gray and her Loved Ones. In that vein, we’ll likely see Brian Gleeson reprise his role as Jimmy McCavern. And after his surprise return in Season 5, it’s also likely that we’ll see more of Tom Hardy as Alfie in Season 6 too.
Kate Phillips’s reunite as Linda Shelby is a bit of a toss-up. Linda threatened to kill Arthur and ended up getting shot as a result, and while she lived, her reappearance remains uncertain. Talking to Digital Spy, Phillips said, “I’d like to believe [Linda’s] going to be about and maybe there might be some reconciliation, but also you know her fury is pretty palpable by the ending of episode five… It does beg the question — just how can you come back from trying to kill your husband?”
As far as new cast members go, Knight has confirmed that Stephen Graham will be emerging in this season or Season 7 — he won’t say who Graham is playing, but has said it is not Al Capone. Speaking of famous bad guys, there is a pretty strong fan rumor going around that Rowan Atkinson (of Mr. Bean and Johnny English fame) will soon be playing Hitler, who is a famous friend of Oswald Mosley. The creators haven’t confirmed anything such as that, however. Many bonafide celebs have also expressed interest in guesting on the show, from Brad Pitt to Snoop Dogg, A$AP Rocky, and Samuel L. Jackson, all of which Knight has said he would be delighted to have on. Will Sam Jackson show up in 1930s Birmingham to telephone Tommy Shelby a motherfucker? We could only hope.
The Season 5 finale was a Small doozy. Tommy had an entire strategy to take his political competition, Oswald Mosley, a British facist who did exist in real life. Tommy broke out Barney, a professional sniper and old boyfriend, to kill Mosley during a political rally. Of course, it backfired, end with Shelby ally Aberama Gold dead and Tommy placing a gun to his head in the end of the episode. Mosley, however, is still very much alive, leaving additional afield threads that will surely continue into next year.
The biggest question at hand, however, is who betrayed Tommy and compelled his plan to neglect (we’ve got some ideas ). Season 6 must additionally further grapple with Tommy’s suicidal ideation — we’re assuming he does not expire after Season 5, granted that actor Cillian Murphy has been confirmed to reunite.
Past that, we also understand that Season 6 will delve more into Gina’s influential, American family in addition to individuals from Oswald Mosley’s social circle. That being said, we won’t be seeing much of the American mob. “I think it’s a small minefield because it’s been done a whole lot,” series creator Steven Knight informed Digital Spy. Knight has no intentions to touch the likes of Al Capone at any stage in Peaky Blinders’ future.
The new season will take us up to 1934, in which “things are worse,” Knight informed NME. “The drumbeat is getting louder, tensions are worse and Tommy is in the middle of all that. Again, it will be an investigation of what was going on in the’30s and the way certain things transpired.” We can expected Season 6 to become equally as firmly mired in the politics of this time as Season 5, also according to Knight, “it’s a tragedy.”