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Peaky Blinders<\/a><\/em> creator Steven Knight has put out a casting name for skinheads to star in his new BBC<\/a> drama This Town<\/em>.<\/p>\n Announced late final yr, This Town<\/em> \u201ctells the story of an extended family and four young people who are drawn into the world of ska and two-tone music, which exploded from the grass roots of Coventry and Birmingham in the late \u201870s and early \u201880s, uniting black, white and Asian youths\u201d.<\/p>\n Levi Brown, Jordan Bolger, Ben Rose and Eve Austin will star because the 4 younger leads, with filming starting in Wolverhampton earlier this month. Casting company Mad Dog 2020 has since appealed (by way of Birmingham Live<\/a><\/em>) for \u201cskinheads and people with shaved heads\u2026 in and around West Bromwich\u201d to grow to be concerned with the present, however provided that they \u201chave good availability from now until the end of February\u201d, when filming presumably wraps.<\/p>\n Announcing This Town<\/em> final yr, the BBC stated<\/a>: \u201cBoth a high octane thriller and a family saga, This Town opens in 1981 at a moment of huge social tensions and unrest. Against this backdrop, it tells the story of a group of young people fighting to choose their own paths in life, and each in need of the second chance that music offers.\u201d<\/p>\n Steven Knight, creator of Peaky Blinders, is as soon as once more turning to his Birmingham roots for a brand new BBC drama, This Town https:\/\/t.co\/4OoTQ56L7Q<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/kMsMbPX6Sv<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Royal Television Society (@RTS_media) December 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The sequence will likely be co-produced with Universal Music Group\u2019s Mercury Studios, who’re set to \u201cbring in an exciting range of high profile musical artists to help lay the backdrop for Knight\u2019s incredible story\u201d.\u00a0Kae Tempest<\/a>\u00a0is already confirmed to be concerned.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a project very close to my heart,\u201d stated Knight. \u201cIt\u2019s about an era I lived through and know well and it involves characters who I feel I grew up with. It\u2019s a love letter to Birmingham and Coventry but I hope people from all over the world will relate to it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSka music has such a huge impact on music and culture; in the 80\u2019s and through to modern day,\u201d added Alice Webb, Mercury Studios CEO. \u201cExpect fierce new music as well as serious homage to classics of the time. It\u2019s going to be unstoppable.\u201d<\/p>\n Steven Knight can also be resulting from work on a biography sequence about Enzo Ferrari<\/a> (based mostly on the e book Ferrari Rex<\/em> by Luca Dal Monte) for Apple TV+<\/a>, and final yr\u00a0teased a Peaky Blinders<\/em> characteristic movie.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI know exactly what\u2019s going to happen, I know what the story is and I\u2019m writing at the moment,\u201d he stated. \u201cIt\u2019s a very specific story, that\u2019s based on a true story from the Second World War and will be told in the Peaky<\/em> way.\u201d<\/p>\n Last September, Knight hinted that the Peaky Blinders<\/em> story might proceed<\/a> with a brand-new sequence \u201cif there is an appetite\u201d for it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n