Peaky Blinders Movie Trailer Reveals Tommy Shelby’s Return and Calke Abbey Location
The Peaky Blinders Movie opens with a new trailer that brings Cillian Murphy’s Tommy Shelby back to wartime Birmingham, sets him on a collision course with his son played by Barry Keoghan, and confirms Calke Abbey as a principal filming location.
Peaky Blinders Movie: trailer sets up a father‑son war
The first full trailer lays out a compact but decisive premise: an older, weathered Tommy Shelby returns from a self‑imposed exile to Birmingham in 1940 and faces what is described as his most destructive reckoning yet. The film positions Tommy against his illegitimate firstborn, Duke Shelby, now grown and running the Peaky Blinders gang. The trailer makes clear that tensions are personal and political — Tommy must confront his legacy while the future of both family and city hangs in the balance.
Barry Keoghan appears as Duke Shelby in a menacing turn that places him at the center of the gang’s renewed violence. Sophie Rundle’s Ada delivers a line in the trailer that frames the conflict: “Your gypsy son is running the Peaky Blinders like it’s 1919, all over again. ” Rebecca Ferguson’s character warns Tommy to face his demons for the sake of family and country, and a new English gentleman‑officer figure, played by Tim Roth, quietly tempts Duke with collaboration that would support the enemy during the war. The trailer suggests Tommy will have to reassert himself to protect Birmingham.
The Peaky Blinders Movie repeatedly returns to themes of legacy and ruin: the city is under strain from wartime destruction, and the Shelby name is shown as both a power and a liability that Tommy must either confront or erase.
Calke Abbey used as atmospheric wartime backdrop
Filmmakers selected Calke Abbey for its “extraordinary authenticity, ” using the Grade I listed house to portray a country house in rapid decline during the 20th century. Production took advantage of peeling paintwork and layered interiors that required minimal alteration, fitting the film’s need for atmospherically worn spaces. Key scenes were shot in ground floor passageways, the kitchen, a schoolroom and a night nursery; the stable yard and riding school were refitted to display vintage cars rather than agricultural tools.
The estate team undertook an extensive conservation and logistics effort to accommodate filming: more than 1, 300 historic objects were carefully packed, moved and reinstated in a process that took upwards of 950 hours. One noted moment filmed at the site is a sequence of Tommy emerging from thick mist with a slow, staggering stride — a visual likely to become closely associated with the film’s use of the house and grounds.
Release plan and cast confirmations
The film is scheduled to open in cinemas from March 6 and will arrive on the streaming service on March 20 (ET). Cast confirmations visible in the trailer include Cillian Murphy returning as Tommy Shelby, Barry Keoghan as Duke Shelby, Sophie Rundle as Ada, Stephen Graham among returning allies, and new additions Rebecca Ferguson and Tim Roth in pivotal roles.
From the trailer and the on‑location production details, the Peaky Blinders Movie is being presented as a wartime, high‑stakes continuation of the Shelby story: a personal vendetta played out against the backdrop of a nation at war and an estate that visually captures the period’s decay. The combined emphasis on family rupture, ideological temptation, and tangible period settings sets expectations for a film that aims to be both intimate and epic in scope.
