Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man releases trailer two weeks out from release, promises to be explosive

What does it mean to be immortal? Not tree of life elixir stuff, not actually living forever.

But for your name to carry so much weight that even the mere mention of it sends grown men cowering behind a long bar.

Tommy Shelby is an immortal.

The main trailer for the Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man finally dropped, two weeks out from its cinema release, and it promised a showdown that is both personal and explosive.

The film will be set in 1940, with Britain enmeshed in World War II, and Tommy is now in self-exile, lumbering in his enormous mansion, looking very lonely and forlorn. You might even say that he looks haunted. By literal ghosts or by past regrets? Perhaps both.

“You abandoned your kingdom and you abandoned your son,” Rebecca Ferguson’s character tells him.

That son is now played by Hollywood’s go-to for a weirdo villain, Barry Keoghan (he had been portrayed by Conrad Khan in the TV series), and little Duke is a vicious chip off the old block, but seems to have abandoned all pretence to a moral code.

We see Tim Roth’s character speaking to someone, presumably Duke, “I need to know that you are willing to take part in an act of treason that will decide this war for Germany”.

Out of context that line of dialogue seems very loaded, but taken at face value, it seems as if Duke is going to be involved in some very bad stuff. Especially as the next edit cuts to him saying, “The world don’t give a f—k about me, and I don’t give a f—k about the world”.

Could needing to pull his wayward son into line be what brings Tommy out back into the open?

The trailer promises at least one face-to-face between the two, staring at each other across a bar, Tommy covered in dust and pouring himself a big one.

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man had been teased since before the end of the main series in 2022, but it was dependent on whether creator Stephen Knight could find a reason to bring all the characters back, as well as star Cillian Murphy’s willingness to return.

By late 2023, Knight confirmed he was putting final touches on a script, and in March the following year, Murphy was slated to reprise the role.

Filming for the movie started in September 2024 and a list of cast members started to come out, including Ferguson, Keoghan, and Roth, with series stars including the likes of Stephen Graham, Sophie Rundle and Ned Dennehy returning.

The movie was directed by Tom Harper, who had directed three episodes of the original series.

Since the Peaky Blinders show wrapped four years ago, Knight has been busy across the big and small screens. He wrote the screenplay for Maria, the Maria Callas biopic by Pablo Larrain, and created ongoing series SAS: Rogue Heroes and A Thousand Blows, the latter of which also starred Graham.

Additionally, Knight wrote All the Light We Cannot See, This Town, The Veil and House of Guinness, and has been tapped to pen the upcoming James Bond movie that will restart the franchise under Amazon’s stewardship.

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man will be in cinemas on March 6 and on Netflix on March 20