There’s something about a bleak Birmingham winter that just screams Christmas, which Netflix clearly knew when they released the teaser trailer for “Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man” on Wednesday.
Four years after the original BBC series aired its final episode, the new “Peaky Blinders” feature film takes place in the English manufacturing hub not long after the UK entered World War II. Last we saw Cillian Murphy as the lovable gangster Tommy Shelby, he was riding off into the distance on a white horse in the wake of another dispute that cost him multiple loved ones. But as we know, it takes more than a bit of guilt and spilt blood to deter a Shelby, meaning that Tommy is back for what the logline of the film calls “his most destructive reckoning yet.”
Written by “Peaky Blinders” series creator Steven Knight and directed by Tom Harper (“Wild Rose,” “The Aeronauts”), “Immortal Man” co-stars highly decorated newcomers Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Roth, and Barry Keoghan, alongside series regular Sophie Rundle and Season 6 addition Stephen Graham, who is in the midst of a career high following Netflix’s “Adolescence.” Back in February, Knight gave his assessment of the film and its stellar cast to Variety: “I would say this — wouldn’t I? — but it’s fantastic. We’ve got the best, I think, the best British actors all in one place.” Meanwhile, “Saltburn” star Keoghan told IndieWire of the project a few months before, “I read the script and loved it and have chatted to Cillian about it and it’s going to be epic.”
Like the vibey series, the brief first trailer for the film is moody, propulsive, and full of Murphy. It hints at the fact that, once again, we’ll see Tommy at a crossroad, torn between giving into his demons and trying to chart a new, more constructive path. Given the scars he bears from the first World War, finding happiness in 1940 won’t be easy, but we’ll all be there to cheer on the most charming, gun-toting man in the West Midlands.
“Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man” will release in select theaters on March 6, 2026, and on Netflix March 20. Watch the full trailer below.
