The Shelby family really don’t have a good survival rate in Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man. So many main characters are killed off in the film. The creator of Peaky Blinders, Steven Knight, has explained the reasoning behind which characters die. Read through his justifications as you mourn.<\/p>\n
Peaky Blinders<\/a> viewers speculated about what role Arthur would have in the film. The actor Paul Anderson plead guilty to possessing crack cocaine in 2024.<\/p>\n We learn part-way through The Immortal Man that in the time jump between the show and the film, Arthur stole Tommy’s car, they fought, and Tommy killed him. Steven Knight says he always planned to kill off Arthur, as the plot of the film depended on it. He explained to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>: “What I\u2019ll say is that the story determines the cast, and the story was set. I knew that Tommy needed to have done something that he couldn\u2019t forgive himself for. Therefore, that\u2019s why the plot went in that particular direction.”<\/p>\n Although there were other characters close to Tommy who could die in the film, Steven Knight said on Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man Podcast<\/a> that Arthur’s death had particular impact. “Everything that Tommy has ever stood for is family. And here he is, he shot his own brother. Everything falls apart after that. There is nothing left because everything you\u2019ve ever stood for, everything you\u2019ve represented, has gone.”<\/p>\n