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The BBC has announced the cast for SAS: Rogue Heroes, Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight’s dramatized account of how Britain’s Special Forces unit was formed in the darkest days of World War Two. Connor Swindells (Sex Education) will play David Stirling, with Jack O'Connell (The North Water) as Paddy Mayne, Alfie…

EXCLUSIVE: With yesterday's news that BAFTA-winning period gangster epic Peaky Blinders will conclude with its sixth season came a promise of the series continuing "in another form," creator Steven Knight said. Elaborating on that, he tells Deadline, "Covid changed our plans. But I can say that my plan from the…

The Shelby family is hanging it up, to a degree. BAFTA-winning period gangster saga Peaky Blinders is due to conclude after the upcoming sixth season, which has begun filming, producers said today. The news that Season 6 will be the last for the Birmingham clan is likely to be met with dismay by the rabid global…

In the Doug Liman-directed Locked Down that premieres today on HBO Max, Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor play an estranged couple ready to call it quits if not for being shackled to their flat like every other Londoner by Covid. They co-exist uneasily and only find a spark when they hatch a daring plan to heist a…

If you are going to make a movie from scratch during a pandemic lockdown, you might as well have a little fun with it. That is exactly what director Doug Liman and screenwriter Steven Knight are doing with the irresistible stew they have concocted for Locked Down. Fortunately they have skilled stars of the caliber of…

EXCLUSIVE: Small Dark Look, the crime drama project formerly known as Body Cross, is becoming a real thing at Focus Features, I hear. Jason Statham is in talks to board the project which recently got a new director, Dane filmmaker Martin Zandvliet. He’s the director of the 2017 Oscar nominated foreign film Land of Mine…

EXCLUSIVE: The Tunnel and Tin Star producer Kudos is teaming up with Peaky Blinders and Taboo scribe Steven Knight to develop a new drama series set against the backdrop of the UK’s early 1980s Two Tone music scene. The series, which will be produced by Kudos in association with Kudos North and Yesterday producers Matt…

EXCLUSIVE: Mindy Kaling, Sir Ben Kingsley and Lucy Boynton have been added to an already-strong cast of Lockdown, the Doug Liman-directed heist thriller/romantic comedy scripted by Steven Knight. They join Anne Hathaway, Chewitel Eijofor, Ben Stiller, Stephen Merchant, Dulee Hill, Jazmyn Simons and Mark Gatiss. P.J…

EXCLUSIVE: While Doug Liman plots directing a blockbuster-size movie in outer space with Tom Cruise, his next mission will be on a lot more modest budget in London. Liman is set next to direct Lockdown, and Anne Hathaway is in final talks to star. Steven Knight wrote the script, and P.J. van Sandwijk is producing with…

EXCLUSIVE: NEON has teamed with Topic Studios to win a pitched bidding battle and will pay north of $4 million for U.S. rights to Spencer, with Pablo Larraín is set to direct and Kristen Stewart to play Princess Diana. The drama has been one of the most hotly contested packages at the virtual Cannes Market. The Steven…

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight is reteaming with his Taboo and A Christmas Carol collaborators on a new adaptation of Charles Dickens classic Great Expectations. Knight will write and executive produce the six-part BBC One/FX limited series that is also exec produced by Ridley Scott, Tom Hardy, Dean Baker, David…

EXCLUSIVE: Coming off of its highest-rated run so far, the Steven Knight-created period gangster saga Peaky Blinders will begin shooting its 6th season in March. That’s after a move to BBC One last year and a first BAFTA for Outstanding Drama in 2018. Executive Producer Caryn Mandabach is the proud owner of the series…