In Thousand Blows: Is a season 2 possible?
Will the story of the Forty Elephants extend over several seasons? We asked the question to the creator Steven Knight.
He is not one to abandon his characters! More than ten years after the creation of Peaky Blindersthe screenwriter Steven Knight has just made the film on Tommy Shelby, and recently announced his intention to expand the universe. While what will be of his new criminal series, A Thousand Blowswho has just been put online on Disney Plus? Is a season 2 possible?
It must be remembered that A Thousand Blowsinspired by a true story, follows Hezekiah Moscow, a Jamaican landed in the English capital in the 1880s, who will meet the intriguing Mary Carr (embodied by Erin Doherty), the boss of a gang of thieves nicknamed the forty elephants.
Precisely, these “Forty Elephants” continued their illegal activities until the middle of the 20th century. Which therefore leaves the possibility of making a follow -up:
“In fact, the gang completely disappeared during the 1950s … So you imagine: it would take about 25 seasons to treat all its existence”, answers us Steven Knight.
The creator of A Thousand Blows Confirms in the process to first have in the idea of making a season 2:
“Yes, I really want to continue to follow this story. Writing a series like that, it’s a bit like walking in the dark along a rope: we continue to follow the rope, until that that she stops … “
So is the rest already in the pipes? “I won’t tell you if I have already started writing season 2” Massyly replies Knight, who has also just finished filming his latest creation, House of Guinnesswhich will take place again in the 19th century, around the Guinness family …
