‘Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man’ Writer Steven Knight Reveals a Tom Hardy-Related Twist He Scrapped
📖 Full Retelling
The creator dives deep into his final story centering on Cillian Murphy's Tommy Shelby and looks back on the unexpected hit series.
Entity Intersection Graph
No entity connections available yet for this article.
Original Source
Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text [This story contains major spoilers for Peaky Blinders : The Immortal Man .] A couple weeks before Breaking Bad came to an end in 2013, another impeccably written crime drama premiered across the pond on BBC Two. Like Vince Gilligan’s series, this show also had an unusual title with a towering lead performance at its center. And within a year, a streaming deal with Netflix helped turn it into a global phenomenon just as the streamer had done for Bad midway through its basic-cable run. The show in question was Steven Knight ’s Peaky Blinders , starring Cillian Murphy. Related Stories Movies Steven Knight May Have a New 'Peaky Blinders' Generation on the Way -- But He Has Tommy Shelby to See off First Movies 'Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man' Review: Cillian Murphy and Barry Keoghan Battle as Wayward Father and Son in Netflix's Frothy Sequel Film Of course, the late 2000s Albuquerque, New Mexico where Bryan Cranston’s Walter White built a meth empire is a far cry from the post-World War I Birmingham, England where Murphy’s Tommy Shelby turned the Peaky Blinders street gang into a notorious criminal organization with legitimate financial and political power. But there are still a number of similarities between the two successful drama series that are laced with dark comedy and populated with sympathetic criminals. Echoing Gilligan’s El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie , Knight now has his own sequel movie to his beloved series. Written by the series creator and directed by Tom Harper, Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man aims to provide Tommy with the inner peace that’s eluded him since he returned home from his harrowing experience as a tunneler in WWI. The story picks up in 1940, six years after the end of the mothership series. Tommy has ...
Read full article at source