Midnighter - 'Peaky Blinders': Tom Hardy Returning; S Knight & C Murphy On Stepped-Up Season 3

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LINK: Interview with Steven Knight and Cillian Murphy

Check this out. I wish Deadwood had just gone for 5.

How long do you see it going?

Knight: It’s a longshot, but the ambition is, I would love to end the final episode of the final series with the first air-raid fire of the second World War. We’ve been going in two-year jumps so that would be like about 10 series. We may have to start making bigger jumps to get to that point. But I’ll let the story lead (and do) what feels natural.

Murphy: The story definitely has legs. Steven always said he saw it going up to World War II. I think in the UK we’ve been slow to let our shows kind of mature and grow like you’ve done in the States. I think it’s important with a writer like Steve to give him the time. There is so much more story to tell. I love the work and I love going to work.

 

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LINK: Interview with Steven Knight and Cillian Murphy

Check this out. I wish Deadwood had just gone for 5.

How long do you see it going?

Knight: It’s a longshot, but the ambition is, I would love to end the final episode of the final series with the first air-raid fire of the second World War. We’ve been going in two-year jumps so that would be like about 10 series. We may have to start making bigger jumps to get to that point. But I’ll let the story lead (and do) what feels natural.

Murphy: The story definitely has legs. Steven always said he saw it going up to World War II. I think in the UK we’ve been slow to let our shows kind of mature and grow like you’ve done in the States. I think it’s important with a writer like Steve to give him the time. There is so much more story to tell. I love the work and I love going to work.

Awesome, can't wait for this. Murphy is really mesmerizing as Tommy Shelby. I hope Hardy has a bigger role in Season 3 too (and speaking of Locke, I watched it while traveling recently - for a film set entirely in a car, it's fairly captivating; mostly it's Hardy's Welsh accent I think...).

Deadwood didn't make it to Season 4, but I have to think were it around in today's age of binge watching and DVR'ing, it may have had a longer shelf life. What really sucks is that the way it ended was so anticlimactic. Of course, half the cast ended up on Justified at one point or another, so it wasn't all bad .