Tom Hardy’s absence from Peaky Blinders movie explained
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Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has disclosed he almost brought back Tom Hardy’s Alfie Solomons for The Immortal Man
Peaky Blinders film almost brought back Tom Hardy for massive twist(Image: BBC)
Everything you need to know about Tom Hardy’s absence from Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man.
- Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has revealed he scrapped a massive twist that would have brought back Tom Hardy’s iconic character Alfie Solomons as a ghost.
- The show’s writer originally considered revealing that Alfie had actually died from his gunshot wound on Margate beach. Knight briefly toyed with the idea that all of Alfie’s appearances since season four were just apparitions in Tommy Shelby’s mind.
- “I thought, maybe [Alfie] appears, and we realise he’s been dead all that time,” Knight told the Hollywood Reporter. “Now, I nearly did that, and I didn’t do it, but that was a thought.”
- The twist would have mirrored Tommy’s other ghostly visions, including his deceased first wife Grace. Knight noted that since the beach shooting, viewers have only ever seen Tommy and Alfie together alone, adding fuel to the theory.
- Hardy’s busy filming schedule for Paramount+ crime drama MobLand may have also influenced the decision not to pursue this storyline.
- Fans still have hope of seeing Alfie return as the series continues with at least two more instalments on Netflix and the BBC. Knight confirmed Duke Shelby will appear in the upcoming post-WWII Birmingham follow-up.
- The creator teased: “Some of the characters that are in [The Immortal Man] will appear in that. But I’m under strict instructions not to talk about it except to say that it’s happening.”
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