“Peaky Blinders” followers are going to be doubly blessed.
Netflix introduced Thursday that they’ve ordered two, 6-episode seasons of a sequel to the hit sequence from the present’s creator Steven Knight.
According to the streaming big, the story takes place in Britain in 1953. “After being heavily bombed in WWII, Birmingham is building a better future out of concrete and steel,” the logline units up, additional teasing that “the race to own Birmingham’s massive reconstruction project becomes a brutal contest of mythical dimensions.”
“This is a city of unprecedented opportunity and danger, with the Shelby family right at its blood-soaked heart,” the outline provides.
Netflix mentioned in a press launch that the sequel will happen after the occasions that shall be seen within the “Peaky Blinders” function movie, which is presently in post-production and sees star and Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy reprise his position as Tommy Shelby.
The new reveals shall be filmed at Digbeth Loc. Studios in Birmingham, and Murphy will function one of many govt producers of the brand new present.
Knight expressed his pleasure in regards to the new sequence.
“I’m thrilled to be announcing this new chapter in the ‘Peaky Blinders’ story,” he mentioned in a assertion. “Once again it will be rooted in Birmingham and will tell the story of a city rising from the ashes of the Birmingham blitz. The new generation of Shelbys have taken the wheel and it will be a hell of a ride.”