'Peaky Blinders' creator Steven Knight raved about the impact NFL legend Tom Brady is having on Birmingham City FC since taking over. Whilst attending the red carpet launch of his new Disney+ TV show ‘A Thousand Blows’, life-long Birmingham City fan Steven discussed how his new show's origins are similar to that of 'Peaky Blinders'.
His new show reunites him with actor Stephen Graham in a British Boxing drama set in Victorian England. The pair attended the BFI London Film Festival Red-Carpet Gala for ‘A Thousand Blows’ at London’s Southbank Centre. The show arrives on Disney+ in 2025. Report by Burtonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
His new show reunites him with actor Stephen Graham in a British Boxing drama set in Victorian England. The pair attended the BFI London Film Festival Red-Carpet Gala for ‘A Thousand Blows’ at London’s Southbank Centre. The show arrives on Disney+ in 2025. Report by Burtonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00There's two elements to it, which I have intentionally bolted together, which is, that were concurrent
00:07at the time. So in the 1880s, 1890s, there was this very vibrant bare-knuckle boxing
00:13scene in the East End of London. There was also the emergence of what we now recognise
00:18as boxing in the West End of London, the Queensbury rules, boxing with gloves. But then, anarchically,
00:25apart from that, there was this reality of a thing called the Forty Elephants, which
00:29was a gang of women who operated from the Elephant and Castle, and they specialised
00:36in contricks, robbery, but also they would enter a department store like Harrods or Selfridges,
00:44and they would just invade the place and cause mayhem and steal so many clothes and put them
00:49on so that when they left, they looked like elephants, and they could barely get through
00:54the doors as they left. So it's just this real thing, this real piece of history that,
00:59as a writer, you wouldn't dare invent.
01:02Which obviously, when you hear about those antics, you must surely think to yourself,
01:06like, why has no one written this screenplay before?
01:08It is absolutely the case, and I've wanted to do a Forty Elephants thing for seven or
01:14eight years, because when I first found out about it, and found out about the characters
01:18about Mary Carr and Alice Diamond, real people who lived extraordinary lives, who took no
01:26nonsense, who were incredibly strong and powerful, you just think, this is a gift for a writer.
01:32Was it a similar spark that you felt towards them as when you first found out about The
01:35Piggy Blinders, perhaps?
01:36Absolutely.
01:37I hope you need to tell their story.
01:38It's absolutely the same. It's hidden or forgotten working-class history that the history books
01:44didn't bother with, and yet it's so much more interesting and fascinating than a lot
01:49of the stuff you read. I think it takes a genius to make history boring, and this is
01:56just, you just dip into history and find these incredible characters.
02:00I know you're a proud rummy. Can I ask you what you thought about the Tom Brady Birmingham
02:03City Revolution?
02:04I could not be more happy. Are you a blues fan?
02:08My dad is.
02:09Oh, really? I couldn't be more happy. It's fantastic. I never thought it would happen.
02:14I was at the Wrexham game, David Beckham sitting in front of me, Tom Brady sitting
02:18next to me. Incredible, and let's just hope that our dreams are going to come true.
02:24I'm proper happy for you all.
02:26Keep writing.
02:27See you later.