Get ready for another time jump — andtwonew series — in thePeaky Blindersuniverse.
Netflix announced Thursday that Jamie Bell will step into the role of Duke Shelby, the son of the original show's lead, Thomas Shelby (Cillian Murphy). Actor Barry Keoghan played Duke in the moviePeaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, released a little more than a week before the announcement.
"In this new era of Peaky Blinders, a decade after World War Two, the race to rebuild Birmingham becomes a brutal contest of mythical dimensions," the streamer revealed about the new show. "This is a city of unprecedented opportunity and jeopardy. At its blood-soaked heart is Duke Shelby (Jamie Bell): older, wiser, more ambitious, and most certainly more dangerous."
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The rest of the cast includesStranger Thingsalum Charlie Heaton, Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey), Lashana Lynch (No Time to Die), and Lucy Karczewski, known for the playStereophonic, in her TV debut.
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Steven Knight, the creator and writer behind the crime drama, promised "more exciting cast announcements to come" for the series, set 10 years afterThe Immortal Man.
"I am thrilled that we are announcing a new era ofPeaky Blinders, moving the story to post-war Birmingham in the early 50s," Knight said. "We are incredibly fortunate to have Jamie Bell taking the role of Tommy Shelby's oldest son, Duke, and to have the incredible Charlie Heaton also leading the cast."
Bell himself is best known for portraying Bernie Taupin to Taron Egerton's Elton John in 2019 movieRocketman. He's also appeared inAll of Us Strangers(2023),Snowpiercer(2013),Fantastic Four(2015), and in 2000'sBilly Elliot, for which he won a Critics Choice Award for Best Child Performance
The originalPeaky Blinders, which debuted on BBC Two in 2013, was inspired by thereal-life street gangfollowing World War I.
Murphy famously recounted last month onLate Night With Seth Meyersthat Keoghan secured his part playing his son in the franchise by texting him on Father's Day.
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