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1920's gang drama created by Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things, Eastern Promises, Amazing Grace).
Cillian Murphy (The Dark Knight Rises) will play Tommy in the new six-part BBC Two drama, which tellls the story of a gangster family in post-war Birmingham.
Peaky Blinders - the gang named for their practise of sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps, who make their money from off track betting, protection and robbery.
Cillian Murphy (The Dark Knight Rises) will play Tommy in the new six-part BBC Two drama, which tellls the story of a gangster family in post-war Birmingham.
Peaky Blinders - the gang named for their practise of sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps, who make their money from off track betting, protection and robbery.
Set in 1919 Birmingham, Tommy (Murphy), is the most ruthless brother of them all in an epic gangster family saga in the lawless slum neighborhoods of post-war Birmingham. Returning soldiers, newly-minted revolutionaries and criminal gangs all fight for survival in an industrial landscape gripped by economic upheaval. Tommys leadership is about to be put to the test. A ruthless new police chief arrives in town from Belfast to clean up the city and, perhaps more lethally, a beautiful woman arrives in the neighborhood with a mysterious past and a dangerous secret.
Directed by Otto Bathurst (Five Days, Criminal Justice, Margot) and produced by Katie Swinden (Luther, Spooks).
Written by Steven Knight, David Leland (Wish You were Here, Band of Brothers, Mona Lisa), Stephen Russell (Hattie, Shameless) and Toby Finlay (Ripper Street, The Picture of Dorian Gray).