The Peaky Blinders movie will begin filming in Birmingham "soon", according to its creator. Steven Knight said the movie would be looking for extras and all they would need is a "haircut and a cap".
He made the announcement on Tuesday (March 21) at a new film studio complex in Birmingham. The site is a former canal-side warehouse, which is being turned into Digbeth Loc Studios.
Knight said: “I am embargoed from giving dates and times – but Peaky Blinders movie will be in there. And soon.”
He added that there was a "mind-blowing" pipeline of productions coming through the new studio which would grow the city’s nascent film and television production industry.
Building work starts on the site this week in the city's creative quarter in Digbeth. It will be completed in the summer and will be ready for filming in October.
The main studio building is also set to provide one of the key filming locations for the Peaky Blinders’ silver screen sequel, with Knight and city leaders citing their ambitions “to plant an industry” in Birmingham which will “draw in story-tellers from across the world”.
“What we’re doing here is taking the remains of industries that have gone and planting a brand-new industry here," he said. “It is fertile soil, it’s a young city, a creative city.”
