Peaky Blinders set to put Brum in global spotlight

The Peaky Blinders movie and characters' subsequent return to TV are about to put "a big spolitlight on the Midlands".

The film, set at the start of World War Two, will see Cillian Murphy reprise his role as gang leader Tommy Shelby.

Kully Khaila from the Royal Television Society Midlands said it would be a "cinematic experience... fullly filmed in Birmingham", giving fans opportunity to watch in city cinemas within close distance of locations.

The film will be followed by two new seasons on the small screen. Series creator Steven Knight has previously said they will tell the story of Birmingham rising from the ashes of the Blitz.

"If fans are in Birmingham, find you closest cinema or independent cinema and do go watch it there," Khalia said.

"This is a Birmingham story, it will be as close as you're going to get to where Cillian was."

The film is set to be released on 6 March. The show will later return on the BBC in the UK, and on Netflix around the world.

Laurence Mozafari, the former host of the official Obsessed with Peaky Blinders podcast on BBC Sounds, said since the show's debut, it had created a global fanbase for the second city.

"When I hosted the podcast, I was connecting with fans... from Brazil. I traveled through Cuba and met a man from Peru who's obsessed with Birmingham.

"It's opened up the city to a whole new global audience. It might not have [been opened up] otherwise."

The film, titled The Immortal Man, stars Murphy alongside Oscar nominee Barry Keoghan, Adolescence actor Stephen Graham and Dune's Rebecca Ferguson.

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