Peaky Blinders Movie trailer shows Tommy Shelby returning to Birmingham in 1940
The first full trailer for the peaky blinders movie The Immortal Man has arrived, and it frames Cillian Murphy’s Tommy Shelby as a greying, returned figure driven from a self-imposed exile back into a Birmingham caught in World War Two.
Peaky Blinders Movie trailer sets the stakes
The slightly more than two-minute trailer opens with an older Tommy stepping into a changed Small Heath, and press notes describe him as "driven back from a self-imposed exile to face his most destructive reckoning yet. " The film places the story in Birmingham in 1940, with stakes tied to both family and the country: "Tommy must face his own demons, and choose whether to confront his legacy, or burn it to the ground, " the notes say. A key on-screen moment teased in the trailer shows Murphy emerging from thick mist on a slow, staggering stride.
Calke Abbey becomes a wartime backdrop
Producers turned to Calke Abbey in Derbyshire for multiple interiors and yards, using the Grade I listed building to represent period decline without major alteration. The National Trust said ground floor passageways, a kitchen, a schoolroom and a night nursery were used on camera, while the stable yard and a riding school were repurposed to display vintage cars for the shoot. House staff packed, moved and reinstated more than 1, 300 historic objects in a process that took more than 950 hours, and Calke Abbey is singled out for a scene in which Tommy appears out of the mist.
Cast additions, family reckoning and creative team
The Immortal Man reunites Murphy with Sophie Rundle, and brings in new faces: Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Roth and Barry Keoghan, who plays Duke Shelby, Tommy’s illegitimate firstborn and the current gang leader. Stephen Graham also returns in the cast. The trailer includes a vocal warning from Ferguson’s character — "a house haunted with ghosts of people who died because of you… You abandoned your kingdom and you abandoned your son" — and Ada (played by Rundle) tells Tommy that his "gypsy son is running the Peaky Blinders like it's 1919, all over again. " The film was written by Steven Knight and directed by Tom Harper; the trailer was released by Netflix.
Cast credentials featured in the promotional material include Murphy’s Oscar win for his role in Oppenheimer and Keoghan’s Oscar nomination for The Banshees of Inisherin.
The peaky blinders movie The Immortal Man places Tommy’s return in the immediate pressure of wartime Britain, with the trailer making clear the plot will hinge on his relationship with his son and the altered landscape of his old territory.
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man is due in cinemas from 6 March and launches on Netflix from 20 March.
Next on the schedule, the film’s cinema run begins 6 March, followed by its Netflix release on 20 March.
