For Cillian Murphy, there needed to be a really, really good reason to bring Peaky Blinders back. The Immortal Man justified its own existence for the Tommy Shelby star and executive producer by (in his opinion) matching and even improving on the cinematic and climactic ending to season 6, which saw the gangster ride off into distance. But now – next week, to be specific – he’s back, along with several other familiar faces from Steven Knight’s hit BBC series and a few high profile newcomers. Speaking to press including Radio Times at the BFI’s Celebrating Peaky Blinders event hosted by Edith Bowman on Friday night (26th February), Murphy opened up on getting it right for the film’s resurrection of Tommy and the Peaky Blinders. “I felt a real duty to the fans, to the fan base, who, I think, made the thing that it is. “And then I really felt like, okay, if we started him in 1919, and we just come back from this first World War, how can it be as interesting, …