Jamie Bell (“Rocket Man”), Charlie Heaton (“Stranger Things”), Jessica Brown Findlay (“Silo”), Lashana Lynch (“No Time to Die”) and Lucy Karczewski (“Stereophonic”) have all been cast in the new “Peaky Blinders” sequel series at Netflix and the BBC.
The project has an order for two six-episode seasons and has begun filming in and around Digbeth Loc. Studios in Birmingham.
Set ten years after the recent “Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man” film, the action shifts to the early 1950s as Bell takes on the role of Duke Shelby, the eldest son of Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy).
40-year-old Bell marks the third actor in the role following Conrad Khan playing the youngest version in the sixth and final season of the original series, while 33-year-old Barry Keoghan played him in “The Immortal Man”.
It’s theorised Heaton will play a character who teams up with Duke to lead the new generation of the show’s Birmingham street gang.
A decade after World War Two, the race to rebuild Birmingham becomes a brutal contest of mythical dimensions. It’s a city of unprecedented opportunity and jeopardy and at its blood-soaked heart is Duke Shelby (Bell) – older, wiser, more ambitious, and most certainly more dangerous.
Steven Knight returns as series writer and creator on the show while Mike Barker (“The Testaments”) is directing the first episode.
Here's your first look at Jamie Bell who will take the mantle as Duke Shelby in an all-new Peaky Blinders series. Now in production.
Also starring Charlie Heaton, Jessica Brown Findlay, Lashana Lynch, and Lucy Karczewski. pic.twitter.com/uJSPeBYv8U
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Source: TV Line
