Peaky Blinderscaught the imagination by swerving the unexpected.
He made family leader Tommy Shelby not the eldest but the middle brother.
He mad Helen McCrorys indelible Polly Gray not Tommys mother but his aunt.
His working class characters werent to be pitied, but feared and respected… She tells the men to shut up and listen.
Most of them had fought in France and so knew the slaughter and bloodshed that would come next.
Fight if you want to, she concludes, but that baby aint moving anywhere and neither am I.
It ties Ada in, and it gets me every time.
Bullets do eventually fly in that scene three of them.
Its WWII setting will need one if its to deliver on the action front.
The Peaky Blinders movie is due to start production in September 2024.
