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Colin Brennan

Peaky Blinders director Anthony Byrne shares first pics of new look Garrison pub

Peaky Blinders director Anthony Byrne has shared the first pictures of the new look Garrison pub as he promised a dark shake-up.

Irishman Anthony took to the TV’s show Instagram page to reveal new twists and themes.

The new series, which stars Cork naitve Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby, will leap forward in time several years.

New pics posted by Dubliner Byrne showed a dimly lit pub which was painted black and gold.

Peaky Blinders director Anthony Byrne shares first pics of new look Garrison pub (Peaky Blinders Instagram)
A Peaky Blinders grooming range is launching next week (BBC)
Peaky Blinders director Anthony Byrne shares first pics of new look Garrison pub (Peaky Blinders Instagram)

Byrne posted: “Here is a sneak peek at the new Garrison pub.

“I want to point out that it was almost finished and is lit in these images by work lights and not by our amazing cinematographer, Mathieu Plainfosse.

“This is the back bar of the Garrison Pub.

'I didn't want to change the front bar too much for story reasons that I can't go in to, but I wanted to change the back bar.”

Peaky Blinders is mainly filmed in Liverpool and Leeds but filming was cancelled earlier this month over fears about coronavirus.

Bryne went into further detail about the concept of the sixth season of Peaky Blinders.

Peaky Blinders director Anthony Byrne shares first pics of new look Garrison pub (Peaky Blinders Instagram)
Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders (Daily Mirror)

He added: “We wanted to make it very dark and use black and gold in the colour scheme.

“Black and Gold are two colours that run thematically through [season six] and I wanted to layer them anywhere I could that made sense to the locations or the characters who would be in those locations.”

'As to the significance and themes that black and gold represent, well… you'll just have to wait and see.

'But I was really happy with the way the set looked at this point and we spent a lot of time on the wallpaper, the embossed filigree and getting the right tone of the gold and the black.

“‘Stay safe and healthy. By order of…’

When the show does return to our screens,we will see Tommy and his gang at the start of World War II.

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