Peaky Blinders film trailer puts Tommy Shelby back in Birmingham in 1940
The first full trailer for the new peaky blinders film The Immortal Man was released by Netflix, giving a roughly two-minute look at Cillian Murphy reprising Tommy Shelby as he returns to Birmingham during World War Two to confront a family and gang in crisis.
Peaky Blinders: Tommy Shelby returns to Birmingham
The trailer, slightly more than two minutes long, opens on a greying, older-looking Tommy driven back from a self-imposed exile to face what the film's press notes call "his most destructive reckoning yet. " The notes add that "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. " Murphy, who won the Oscar for his previous role as Oppenheimer, anchors the footage as he walks back into a 1940 Small Heath that has changed since he left.
A new cast and a son at the center
The Immortal Man expands the ensemble with Rebecca Ferguson and Tim Roth joining returning performers Sophie Rundle and Stephen Graham. Barry Keoghan appears as Duke Shelby, described in the trailer as Tommy's illegitimate firstborn son and the current leader of the Peaky Blinders; Keoghan earned an Oscar nomination for his role in The Banshees of Inisherin. In a tense exchange, Ada (Sophie Rundle) says: "Your gypsy son is running the Peaky Blinders like it's 1919, all over again. "
Trailer scenes and stakes spelled out in plain language
Rebecca Ferguson's character warns Tommy that he lives in "a house haunted with ghosts of people who died because of you... You abandoned your kingdom and you abandoned your son. " Tommy replies on camera, "I can't help him, because I'm not that man anymore, " a line that the trailer frames as unconvincing. The wartime setting — explicitly Birmingham in 1940 — and those familial confrontations drive the trailer's conflict: a son running the gang, an older leader forced to decide whether to protect or destroy his legacy.
The footage gives no release date for the film but signals a tonal continuation of the television drama's focus on violent family politics and crime set against a broader national crisis. The trailer was distributed by Netflix as the studio's first public look at The Immortal Man.
Fans of peaky blinders now have a clear sense of the film's key players and central clash: an aging Tommy Shelby, a son who has taken control, and new faces stepping into the world that the television series left behind.
Netflix released the first full trailer; the press materials accompanying that trailer outline the setting and stakes but do not include a specific release date for The Immortal Man. Further details, including a premiere date and wider distribution plans, are expected to be announced in coming weeks.
