Peaky Blinders trailer shows Tommy Shelby’s wartime return in The Immortal Man

The first full trailer for the new peaky blinders film The Immortal Man has been released by Netflix, and it returns Cillian Murphy’s Tommy Shelby to Birmingham amid World War Two. The clip, just slightly more than two minutes long, frames a greyed, older Shelby pulled from exile to confront a family and a country at risk.

Tommy Shelby comes back to Birmingham in 1940

The trailer sets the film in Birmingham in 1940, showing damage from World War Two and a Tommy Shelby who is “driven back from a self-imposed exile to face his most destructive reckoning yet, ” the film’s press notes say. Murphy, who won the Oscar for his previous role in Oppenheimer, is seen returning to an altered Small Heath and facing people who tell him things have changed since he left.

New faces and a fraught family split

New cast members appear alongside familiar ones: Rebecca Ferguson and Tim Roth join the ensemble, and Barry Keoghan plays Duke Shelby, Tommy’s illegitimate firstborn who has taken control of the gang. Sophie Rundle returns as Ada, and Stephen Graham is back in the cast. Keoghan received an Oscar nomination for The Banshees of Inisherin.

In one exchange 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, ’” the trailer shows. Ada then says, “Your gypsy son is running the Peaky Blinders like it's 1919, all over again. ” Tommy replies, “I can't help him, because I'm not that man anymore, ” a line the trailer treats as unconvincing.

Peaky Blinders on screen: what the trailer reveals

The trailer makes clear that Tommy returns to confront a changed gang and a son now leading the peaky blinders in a way that echoes an earlier era. The narrative frames Tommy’s struggle as both personal and national: with the future of family and country described in press notes as at stake, he must decide whether to confront his legacy or destroy it.

The Immortal Man trailer is the first full look at the film following the TV drama. It prioritizes mood and character confrontation—older Shelby, wartime Birmingham, a son in control—over plot specifics, and it leaves many details about the film’s release and wider story unshown in the clip.

Netflix released the trailer, giving viewers a glimpse of the film’s tone and the central conflict between Tommy Shelby and his son. The trailer is now available, and The Immortal Man is presented as the next cinematic chapter in the story of Tommy Shelby.