“Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight on the series finale and how he creates a movie

Exclusive, SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details on the series finale. Peaky Blinders …: Peaky BlindersThe award-winning fan-created gangster era created by Stephen Knight when his TV series wrapped Sunday night in the UK (debuting in the US and elsewhere via Netflix on June 10). The ending, which was unanimously approved, is also based on the acclaimed upcoming film, which Knight, in our discussion below, says will take place during World War II. Here is our autopsy SuperiorAnd wait for it.

Deadline: Let me start with this: Thanks for not killing Tommy.
Este knight: You can’t kill a tribe! The good thing is this is the last episode, which makes people think they might die, and if there’s another series… you know what I mean? So you have it on your side.

Deadline: How does it feel to be here now, nine years from now?
Man: Fantastic. Just saw what I don’t normally do, just look at the reviews and it’s great. I think they are the best we’ve ever had. Superior Which is great. Not just reviews, again which I don’t normally do, I look at what people are saying on the internet and it’s absolutely amazing. The fact that the critics and the fans … I think a lot of people, when this is the last series, they hold hands and say, “Prove that you won’t do what the other series have done” and then there’s sort of of expectation. , but I think it all happened.

Deadline: You guys went through hell and back during the pandemic and even lost a favorite cast member. How did the actor respond?
Man: It was a big draw, its realization, thanks to Helen and the pandemic, so it was really tough. It is very welcoming, but it is a small family, including the crew. So everyone is really proud of it. It’s very emotional, but because of the movie, I really want to keep everything the same, not say “Oh my God, we have to do something different here”.

Deadline: You said earlier you wanted to shoot seven seasons, so in terms of the backdrop of six pandemics, how many would there be in the movie in season 7?
Man: It is when I write something, but most of all SuperiorI have no other plan than something very, very broad. So the live action of the film is in World War II, which I don’t think I would have done for the seventh season; There would probably be a war, but since this is a movie, I think we have to change some kind of mechanism.

Deadline: After last night’s Season 6 finale, it seems like there is still something to connect with, most notably the tribal struggle against fascism …
Man: That is why it becomes so urgent during the war, because the worst predictions have come true.

Deadline: So these guys, Oswald Mosley and others, are going to be in the movie?
Man: Yup.

Deadline: I realized the series finale was kind of > godfather– You feel…
Man: Well, it’s always a compliment, I have to say.

Deadline: How much of this is directed by Anthony Byrne and how much do you write about it? Sara Godfather Reports like Michael Gray being shot in the eye and a full account classification, or even a call to action in Odessa? Do you consciously pay these tributes?
Man: I write about it. Without it, nothing is done, so you write. That’s why I love television. I probably said this commercial is sickening, but TV is what you write, it’s what you shoot, unlike movies.

Sometimes it is conscious. Sometimes something like this colludes. In other words, if you do it in the 1930s, you are gangsters, you are in North America, you know what I mean, the look is going to be resonant. Godfather. They are bits: orange and use the symbols and bits that compose it. But there are many other tips that hopefully people can benefit from.

Deadline: In terms of how the film shaped this recent TV season, do we watch Duke and some of these characters show up at the end of the game?
Man: Yes, because in fact the generation of the first world war for the time of the second is for age as it was perceived in those times, and what I want to do is this new generation. I’m very interested in Duke, I’m very interested in Isaiah and I’m just looking at the new generation, but the older generation is still there.

Deadline: Do you think about the future after the film?
Man: Yes, I want to see what the movie tells us. This is always the case when writing. If you don’t start with a hard start in the middle and end up with what I don’t do, and just run, you will somehow understand what happens next. Some people will come to the forefront and I like the idea of ​​a wartime period or post-war Britain because it’s a completely different landscape and I think it would be nice to explore it. It brings a whole new look and people dress differently and behave differently so it will be interesting.

Deadline: Speaking of new looks, Gina’s Art Deco was truly groundbreaking … and as Anna Taylor-Joy plays the character, it’s menacing …
Man: Yes, how it does what it does is pretty impressive. he is awful

Deadline: How did you find the ending? Was there an alternative you were talking about?
Man: The ending is something you really need to focus on rationally because after that there is no solution. There is no going back. It has to end and that’s why I think the end is always the hardest. But finding a way to do this requires rational thinking, and in other parts of the scenario where you can just execute it, this is where it needs to be reasonable.

In my opinion there was another way. I mean, I never thought Tom was going to die, but there were other ways to save him.

Deadline: In 2013, when the series started, you had Tom on a black horse. At the end of this series finale, he stands on a white horse …
Man: Does that mean he’s a good man now?

Deadline: Thanks for answering my question!
man: Well what I want to do – it makes sense – but when we find him during WWII, is he a good man? Was he redeemed? Მ Let’s see. I do not know.

Deadline: Yet you have been saying for years that you want to redeem it …
Man: Yes, or revive it. I like to think that he started the show as dead inside like many people after WWI, and then slowly disintegrated. But it is a painful process because it is painful with the return of the feelings. This is what we have witnessed; So I wanted to finish at 11 and finally say goodbye. In other words, his World War I ended when he shot and didn’t kill the doctor.

Deadline: Over the years we have discussed how important this program was to you – your concussion and your family as part of the Blinders. You do a lot and you constantly have so many burning irons, but is it the most personal thing you’ve ever done?
Man: It’s a personal thing because I started, in part, I wanted to be an imposter for Birmingham, the city of Birmingham where I grew up to internationalize its identity. It was an ambition and it happened, so it’s not just a response to the series as a series. This is a result of the fact that it has entered the culture of many different countries and people wear it this way and have similar tattoos and all. But it all comes back to Birmingham … and just the fact that people tell me if I’m from Birmingham and when they go overseas, people immediately say:Peaky Blinders. ” I think it’s really wonderful. The work is done. And as a result, I’m building studios in Birmingham and we’re going to put a lot of content there. So I hope this is also a legacy for the city.

Deadline: We make some detours. When Tom Hardy’s Alfie Solomons comes to the finale, it’s a good time to take a break. Hardy has always been a fan favorite and you and Killian have worked with him many times. Does Hardy ever announce these scenes?
Man: In the beginning, when one of the first episodes was first filmed, the ad liked it a lot, it doesn’t do it anymore, which is good. I remember the first time the scene was written in about four minutes and was about 20 long. It had just started, which is great because a lot of it was really good. But now he tends to follow the script.

If you have Killian and Tom Hardy together on stage, it’s a luxury to think, “You better do it really well.”

Term: And so on Superior World, what about the ballet that will start in September?
man: How they do ballet is really wonderful and horrible. They book the theater and then they say, “Well let’s do it,” and the theater is booked, and people buy tickets and you think, “Yeah, we better do it.” But we’re in good hands. It’s all scripted, but its current form, the choreography it contains, is just so good. Უ I love it.

Deadline: will it be a new story or a return to the series?
Man: This is a story that people know to be primarily the story of Tom and Grace.