Tommy Shelby is back, and he does not look like a man at peace.
Netflix has released the first trailer for ‘Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man’, bringing Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer, The Wind That Shakes the Barley) back to Birmingham for the next chapter of the Shelby saga. Picking up years after the events of the original series, the film finds Tommy in a very different place, haunted by ghosts both literal and political as Europe edges towards another catastrophic war.
In the trailer, Tommy reflects with characteristic bitterness: “Once, I nearly got fuckin’ everything. But nearly doesn’t count.” It is a line that neatly sums up the cost of his ambition.
Murphy describes Tommy as “as broken as he has been,” telling Netflix that when we rejoin him, he is “just medicating and living in this purgatory that he’s created for himself in this big old house. He’s in this liminal space, not really living, he’s not really dead. He’s ignoring the world, he’s ignoring his family.”
And that family has moved on without him.
Duke Shelby, Tommy’s illegitimate son introduced in Season 6, has stepped into the vacuum. Now played by Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin, Saltburn), Duke is running the Peaky Blinders with the ferocity of their early days. As Ada Shelby, once again portrayed by Sophie Rundle (Gentleman Jack), warns, it is “like it’s 1919 all over again.”
The generational clash is clear. Duke spits, “The world don’t give a fuck about me. And I don’t give a fuck about the world.” That kind of nihilism makes him ripe for influence, particularly from men who thrive in chaos.
One such figure is Beckett, a British fascist sympathiser played by Tim Roth (Reservoir Dogs, The Hateful Eight). Roth teases a villain who hides his extremism behind civility: “Fascism comes at you in many disguises, as we know. He’s very reasonable. Which I thought would make him a more terrifying prospect.”
Tommy, who spent much of the later series attempting to undermine the British Union of Fascists from within, has tried to retreat from the fight. But as tensions build and the shadow of another world war spreads across Europe, it becomes clear that history will not allow him to sit this one out.
“I’ve heard you decided this wasn’t your war,” says Hayden Stagg, played by Stephen Graham (Boiling Point, Adolescence).
“It is now,” Tommy replies.
The trailer is set to the original track “Puppet” by Grian Chatten, Antony Genn and Martin Slattery, underscoring Tommy’s return with a suitably brooding edge. We also see him stride back into the Garrison Pub, demanding the respect that once came automatically with the name Shelby. The question hanging in the smoke-filled air is simple: does that name still carry the same weight?
After six seasons on the BBC, ‘Peaky Blinders’ became a global phenomenon, blending post-World War I crime drama with modern music and razor-sharp political commentary. ‘The Immortal Man’ appears ready to push that legacy into even darker territory, exploring how ideologies take root in uncertain times and what happens when the next generation inherits unfinished business.
‘Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man’ lands in select cinemas on Friday, 6th March 2026, before streaming on Netflix from Friday, 20th March 2026.
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