Peaky Blinders showrunner Steven Knight reveals he’s planning to make SPIN-OFFS of the beloved BBC show in the future
Peaky Blinders showrunner Steven Knight is thinking about spin-offs for the future.
Speaking to the Radio Times magazine on Wednesday, the screenwriter, 61, hinted at the other directions he’d like to take with the show, which is already set to have a sixth season.
Of what he’d like to do when the main story has finished, he said: ‘I know how it’s going to end, this particular incarnation of the family story, I know that it’s going to end at the beginning of the Second World War.
Tease: Peaky Blinders showrunner Steven Knight revealed he has plans to make SPIN-OFFS of the beloved BBC show in the future, as he spoke to Radio Times on Wednesday
‘But after that I think that the momentum is such that maybe we will continue with other bits of the story.’
He also went on to laugh off the idea of killing off Cillian Murphy character Tommy Shelby, as he claimed ‘he’s immortal.’
Steven also went on to say he wouldn’t consider making a prequel to the show as it would be too ‘limiting’ given people are already aware of where the story will go, and characters couldn’t be killed off if they were to appear in the original show.
Exciting: Of what he’d like to do, Steven (pictured on Tuesday) said he already knew how the story would end, but thinks there’s ‘momentum’ for more
The BBC’s gangster period drama won Best Drama Series at the National Television Awards earlier this week, and Cillian was awarded Best Dramatic Performance.
Earlier this month, Steven confirmed that the show’s sixth season had gone into pre-production as he shared a snap of the script for the first episode, entitled ‘Black Day.’
Alongside the photo, he teased fans further, writing: ‘We are in pre-production on Season 6. More to come. By Order of…’
The showrunner’s comments come after he admitted last year he could even look into a big screen version of the hit drama.
He said: ‘I’m writing series six at the moment. That’s almost done. Then I’m going to do series seven, then I’m looking at spin-offs, maybe a movie. It’s up to us. It’s up to the people involved.’
Meanwhile, Steven has also urged fans to ‘expect the unexpected’ as they look forward to the sixth season.
He teased: ‘[It’s going to be] better than ever. It’s the best yet. It’s moving the story forward. We always jump in time so we are into the 30s. Expect the unexpected.’
Production: Earlier this month, Steven confirmed that the show’s sixth season had gone into pre-production as he shared a snap of the script for the first episode, entitled ‘Black Day’