January 25, 2025 Samuel Hames 0

Square up for Steven Knight’s ‘A Thousand Blows’

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Three lives collide in a defiant fight to survive. From Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, A Thousand Blows is set in the perilous world of illegal boxing in 1880s Victorian London and based on little explored real-life characters with incredible stories.

Check out the official trailer for A Thousand Blows below:

Here’s the official synopsis:

Inspired by the true life stories of a group of characters battling for survival in the brutal East End of London in the 1880s. Hezekiah Moscow and Alec Munroe, best friends on the run from Jamaica, find themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of London’s thriving bare-knuckle boxing scene. As Hezekiah finds fortune and fame through the art of pugilism, he attracts the attention of the infamous Queen of the Forty Elephants, Mary Carr, who sets about exploiting his talents to further her criminal enterprise. Meanwhile the menacing and self-declared emperor of the East End boxing world, Sugar Goodson, determines to destroy Hezekiah whose ambitions to fight in the West End threatens everything he has built. What ensues is a battle of the old world against the new.

From it’s first frames this new trailer for A Thousand Blows packs one hell of a whallop, and audiences who are looking for a series that is literally hard-hitting will be over the moon with what they witness in this full-bar, bare-knuckle slugfest. Series lead Stephen Graham, an actor of immense talent and ability to disappear into characters, has gone full beast mode his role as a slugfest gangster Sugar Goodson, and with its mix of slum politics, crimer capers and just a good ol’ bit of biffo, A Thousand Blows is one series are going to be primed for!