By With three seasons still to go, we've been served official notice of what the final ever scene of Peaky Blinders will be.
Steven Knight says he's always envisaged the series finishing with the declaration of war on 3 September 1939, but isn't quite sure what route the Shelbys and their associates will take on the way there.
"I don't ever set off with a plan [while writing] - I set off with a destination," the Metro reports Knight as saying. "The main destination is the end of the whole thing, which is the start of the Second World War, and I know what scene that's going to be and I know how it’s going to end.
"So, any journey, the most important thing is your know where you’re going, and where you’re headed - but on the way you can do whatever you want."
Knight didn't elaborate on exactly what the scene would look like but one popular fan theory is that the air raid sirens which sounded just after Neville Chamberlain's radio address to the nation would make a fittingly dramatic ending. He did say, though, that the interwar span felt like a neat unit of time to work with.
"I just want it to be a family between the wars, so it starts at the end of the first and ends with the beginning of the second. It’s not a well-trodden pattern - those years aren't really examined so much, but I find them really fascinating. It's what's caused us to be us."
Tommy's experiences in the First World War defined the tone of the story from the outset, Knight added.
"At the beginning I always had a thought that we start with someone who was dead basically, switched off," he said. "That's Tommy. When we glimpse at him before the war, he had social ideals, he worked with horses, it was quite a bucolic sort of vision. And then the First World War came and destroyed all that."
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