One of our most talented actors, Cillian Murphy is to headline the BBC 2 series, Peaky Blinders.
According to Deadline.com, the series is a six part gangster family drama created by Steven Knight, who wrote Eastern Promises and was Oscar nominated for penning Dirty Pretty Things. In it Murphy will play a violent member of a Birmingham family in a rundown part of the city after the First World War. The official synopsis is as follows: "Tommy’s (Murphy) family rules the lawless post-war slum neighbourhoods as returning soldiers, revolutionaries and criminals fight for survival. The family is known as the "Peaky Blinders" based on their practice of sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps. Murphy’s Tommy finds his leadership challenged when a Belfast police chief comes to clean up the city, and a beautiful, mysterious woman arrives with a dangerous secret"
Sounds pretty epic and will surely be picked up by a US network for broadcast with that kind of talent attached. Murphy just starred in the thriller, Red Lights, and was the best thing about it.
