Netflix’s (and the BBC’s) Peaky Blinders sequel series has cast Conleth Hill (Game of Thrones), Daniel Monks (All Her Fault), Samuel Bottomley (California Schemin’), Arturo Muselli (Gomorrah), Eugene Collins (The Bay), Lucie Shorthouse (We Are Lady Parts) and Cal O’Driscoll (Video Nasty). In addition — perhaps most exciting for fans of the franchise — Ned Dennehy and Packy Lee are set to reprise their roles of Charlie Strong and Johnny Dogs, respectively, from the original series and its own sequel film (Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man).
Mike Barker (The Testaments) and Anna Zackrisson (Detective Hole) will direct the series, the streamer said on Thursday, with Tim Whitby (This Town) producing. Steven Knight is the creator and writer of Peaky Blinders.
Hill joins as Clemmy Keeler, the “fierce patriarch of the Keeler family who rivals the Peaky Blinders’ ambitions to rebuild Birmingham,” the character description reads. O’Driscoll (Vikings: Valhalla) is Clemmy’s son, Aidan Keeler. If Aidan is anything like Duke Shelby, look out.
Monks (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms) plays Detective Inspector Bell.
The newly announced cast members join Jessica Brown Findlay (Silo, The Flatshare), Lashana Lynch (The Day of the Jackal, No Time to Die) and Lucy Karczewski (Stereophonic).
The new Peaky Blinders series is set a decade after World War II, when the race to rebuild Birmingham becomes “a brutal contest of mythical dimensions,” per the show’s synopsis. “Duke (Jamie Bell) and Charles Shelby (Charlie Heaton) find themselves in a city of unprecedented opportunity and jeopardy.”
Oh yeah, so they’re back too.
Duke Shelby’s gang includes Eliot (Bottomley), Angelo (Muselli), Frank (Eugene Collins) and Kezia Lee (Lucie Shorthouse), with the now-deceased Tommy Shelby’s righthand men Charlie and Johnny Dogs watching over this new generation.
The new Peaky Blinders series is currently filming in and around Digbeth Loc. Studios in Birmingham. It is produced by Banijay UK companies Kudos (SAS Rogue Heroes, House of Guinness) and Garrison Drama (Peaky Blinders series 1-6, Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man). Peaky Blinders will stream on BBC platforms in the U.K. and stream on Netflix everywhere else.
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