Maker Steven Knight said on Thursday that the universe of hit BBC and HBO Max show “Peaky Blinders” will come to an end following the feature film that will follow its sixth and final season.
Season 6 is almost finished, according to Knight, who spoke at a BFI London Film Festival session on writing across genres. The release date is presently slated for spring 2022.
The picture will begin production in 2023, according to the British writer, who spoke to Variety separately.
“And then I’m going to write the feature film, which is going to be set in Birmingham and shot there,” Knight added at the panel. “And that’ll likely be the end of ‘Peaky Blinders’ as we know it,” Knight said. The author stated that “programmes similar” to the “Peaky Blinders” universe could exist, choosing not to use the phrase “spin-offs,” which he dislikes.
If there are spin-offs, Knight will not absolutely supervise them, since he prefers to “pass on the baton,” according to the writer.
Knight also disclosed that the forthcoming film and television studio and academy in Birmingham that he is supporting, which will include the BFI, the BBC Academy, Birmingham City University, and the Birmingham Film Academy, will include a “Second Unit” effort in which students will get hands-on encounters on productions.
“For far too long, producers have paid extremely eager, highly brilliant young people nothing and forced them to make coffee and run about doing nothing,” Knight added. “It’s such a pity.”
The studio and academy, according to Knight, will create a setting that mimics the situations students will face in their chosen areas.
