“It was pretty much from like 2019-2020 we\u2019ve been talking about this and going through different versions of the script and working it and reworking and revising it,” Murphy told Deadline<\/a> recently, ahead of the film’s release.<\/p>\n However, it took more than just an invitation for him to agree to come back: the Oscar-winner felt the movie needed to “justify its existence” after what he thought was a perfect ending to season 6.<\/p>\n “For me personally, I really felt that the film needed to justify its existence because I love the ambiguity of the ending of Season 6 that Tommy rode off into the sort of bucolic English hills and it was, \u2018What, where\u2019s he gone? Will we ever see him again?\u2019” he said. “I felt that was a satisfying ending, actually, for the TV show.”<\/p>\n Barry Keoghan and Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man\u00a0Netflix<\/p>\n Not only did the movie need good reason to exist, but it actually needed to improve on what came before if Murphy were to come on board.<\/p>\n “If you were to make a film, it really needed to match it, and, in fact, kind of improve on it,” he said. “The series is always so cinematic, but I felt like we had to open it up more.”<\/p>\n Speaking of, Peaky Blinders creator Knight thinks the movie budget is a very good reason to bring the story of the Shelby family to the big screen.<\/p>\n One advantage, he explained, is that “you can see the car blown up, you don\u2019t have somebody explain that a car has just been blown up. So the money makes a difference. And I do believe that the fact that it\u2019s a feature attracts cast in a different way.”<\/p>\n The Peaky Blinders will return, by the orders of Netflix, next week<\/a>, coming to cinemas on 6 March before arriving on the streamer 20 March.<\/p>\n In addition to Murphy’s return, more familiar faces including Stephen Graham as Hayden Stagg, Sophie Rundle as Tommy’s sister Ada, and Ned Dennehy as Charlie Strong will also be back.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, there plenty of major additions to the cast, with Tim Roth, Barry Keoghan and Jay Lycurgo among those joining.<\/p>\n Want to see this content?<\/p>\n Peaky Blinders is available to stream on BBC iPlayer. The movie will stream on Netflix \u2013 sign up from \u00a35.99 a month<\/a>. Netflix is also available on Sky Glass<\/a> and Virgin Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n Check out more of our Film<\/a> coverage or visit our TV Guide<\/a> and Streaming Guide<\/a> to find out what’s on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It wasn’t an easy sell to get Cillian Murphy to don his cap again and take back up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-323488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Barry](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0070The-Immortal-Man021024-bac9c47.jpg\" "\\"Barry")
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