The buzz around season five of Peaky Blinders is cresting again with the news that Charlotte Riley's character May Carleton won't be back for the next act in the series. While we know it'll be here next year, details are sketchy.

We do know, though, that there's another drama in the pipeline from the same stable. Deadline reports that Steven Knight, the creator and head writer on Peaky Blinders, will write The Helicopter Heist for Netflix, which Jake Gyllenhaal is also on board to star in and produce.

The film is inspired by Jonas Bonnier's book of the same name about the true events of an extremely daring 2009 daylight robbery in southern Stockholm. Not only did four young Swedes make off with $6.5 million from the roof of a G4S cash depot, but they did so in a Bell 206 Jet Ranger helicopter which they'd also nicked. While they were eventually brought down to Earth and convicted, the money has never been recovered.

There's no timescale as yet on when we can expect to see the adaptation, but the bigger unanswered question is whether The Helicopter Heist will be as useful for Spanish football managers who've just moved to England and want to sharpen up on their 1920s Brummie as Arsenal's Unai Emery has found Peaky Blinders itself.