Netflix’s Peaky Blinders follow-up series has officially started filming in Birmingham, and with the new series will come another new Duke Shelby. The role, which was played by Conrad Khan in the final season of the original series and Barry Keoghan in the recent Netflix movie Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, will not be played by Jamie Bell. Bell recently appeared in Rocket Man and All Of Us Strangers. A photo of him as the character is above. Charlie Heaton, who recently appeared in Stranger Things and Industry, has also joined the cast, though Netflix didn’t offer any details about his character.
“I am thrilled that we are announcing a new era of Peaky Blinders, moving the story to post-war Birmingham in the early 50s,” says Steven Knight in a statement to Tudum. “We are incredibly fortunate to have Jamie Bell taking the role of Tommy Shelby’s oldest son, Duke, and to have Charlie Heaton also leading the cast. There are more exciting cast announcements to come, and Peaky is on the road again.”
The reminder that the follow-up seasons are zooming to 1953 may be less-than-welcome for those who felt that the movie sped through its WWII setting, as critic Rory Doherty did in his review of The Immortal Man for The A.V. Club. “A WWII-set season of Peaky Blinders involving Operation Bernhard would make for great television; in 112 minutes, there’s no time to enjoy the procedural and espionage pleasures of the premise,” he wrote in his review last month. Hopefully the new seasons at least give Peaky Blinders enough time to “tell the story of a city rising from the ashes of the Birmingham blitz. The new generation of Shelbys have taken the wheel, and it will be a hell of a ride,” as Knight says.
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