Peaky Blinders trailer teases wartime Tommy Shelby showdown
The first full trailer for the new peaky blinders film, The Immortal Man, has been released on Netflix and shows Cillian Murphy’s Tommy Shelby returning to Birmingham in 1940, setting up a family reckoning that drags the country into the balance.
Peaky Blinders: Tommy comes back to a changed Small Heath
The trailer opens on an older, greying Tommy Shelby who has been "driven back from a self-imposed exile to face his most destructive reckoning yet, " the film's press notes say, and it places that return squarely in Birmingham in 1940 amid the destruction of World War Two. Rebecca Ferguson’s character warns Tommy that he lives in "a house haunted with ghosts of people who died because of you, " while Sophie Rundle appears again as Ada, saying: "Your gypsy son is running the Peaky Blinders like it's 1919, all over again. " Murphy is shown reprising the role that returns him to the centre of the story.
New cast additions sharpen the family split
Barry Keoghan joins the cast as Duke Shelby, Tommy’s illegitimate son and the current gang leader, and the trailer frames him as a dangerous heir who needs to be set on the right path. Tim Roth appears as an English gentleman officer who privately asks Duke if he is willing to become a traitor and "help the Nazis, " a moment that raises the stakes for the gang and the nation. The trailer also brings back Stephen Graham, and one scene has Ada tell Tommy: "You abandoned your kingdom and you abandoned your son, " to which Tommy answers, "I can't help him, because I'm not that man anymore. "
Stakes, tone and what the trailer shows next
The press notes that accompany the footage make the stakes plain: "With the future of the family and the country at stake, Tommy must face his own demons, and choose whether to confront his legacy, or burn it to the ground. " The trailer — released "by order of the people at Netflix" — pairs those lines with wartime images of Birmingham and confrontations that put family loyalty and national allegiance in direct conflict. Cillian Murphy, who won an Oscar for his previous role in Oppenheimer, anchors the film's centre while the new cast shifts the focus to a generational clash.
Netflix has delivered the first full look at The Immortal Man through this trailer, giving viewers their first concrete sense of the film's setting, cast and central conflict; the footage ends by circling back to Tommy's choice and the question of whether he will save or destroy what he left behind.
