According to recent announcements by Netflix and BBC, Charlie Heaton and Lashana Lynch are officially joining the Peaky Blinders sequel series alongside Jamie Bell as Duke Shelby. The show already has a two-season order and is currently filming in Birmingham, which means this thing is very much happening, and Steven Knight is not slowing down at all.
Steven Knight is building an entirely new generation of Peaky Blinders set in post-war Birmingham
Charlie Heaton, best known for playing Jonathan Byers across all five seasons of Stranger Things on Netflix, is making his return to the platform with this one.
No details about his character have been given yet, but the hints are strong that he will be co-leading the new generation of the Birmingham street gang right alongside Duke Shelby.
Lashana Lynch, who most recently appeared in The Day of the Jackal and before that No Time to Die, is also confirmed for the cast, though her role is equally being kept under wraps for now. Netflix is clearly not giving anything away.
Jessica Brown Findlay from Downton Abbey and Lucy Karczewski, who will be making her television debut with this role, round out the confirmed cast alongside Bell, Heaton, and Lynch.
None of the supporting character details is being disclosed at this point, which means Knight is keeping an incredibly tight lid on where this story is actually going and who these people are to each other.
The series is set a decade after the events of The Immortal Man, dropping the whole story into the early 1950s as Birmingham tries to rebuild itself after being heavily bombed during World War II.
Duke Shelby, now played by Bell, sits at the center of all of it, described officially as older, wiser, more ambitious, and most certainly more dangerous than the version Barry Keoghan played in the film just last month.
Two six-episode seasons have been ordered, and filming is already underway at Digbeth Loc. Studios in Birmingham. The series will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK and globally on Netflix. No premiere date has been announced yet.
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