Years following the final season of ‘Peaky Blinders’, Academy Award–winner Cillian Murphy dusts off his hat and returns as the legendary Tommy Shelby. With just over a month until the movie, ‘The Immortal Man’, streams on Netflix (Friday, March 20), the first full trailer has dropped.
“When we meet him, he’s as broken as he has been,” said Cillian Murphy. “He’s 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.”
That’s exactly what we get in the trailer: Tommy mostly wanders around a ghostly country house. But we get plenty of intrigue and action, too. First, we get a proper look at Barry Keoghan, who seems to be playing Tommy’s illegitimate son Duke—introduced in season six, he’s now running the Peaky Blinders “like it’s 1919 all over again.”
There’s also a look at Tim Roth as a British Fascist sympathiser, Beckett. While later seasons saw Tommy working against the British Union of Fascists, seven years later, his heir is very much on the side of the Nazis. Other incredible actors to appear in the trailer are Stephen Graham, Sophie Rundle and Rebecca Ferguson.
The trailer is set to an original song, ‘Puppet, by Fontaines D.C.’s Grian Chatten and long-time Peaky Blinders composers Antony Genn and Martin Slattery (who will also score the movie). ‘Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man’ is written by Steven Knight and directed by Tom Harper.
‘Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man’ hits select theatres on March 6, before it streams on Netflix on March 20.