Thirty days remain until one of the most anticipated returns in recent years: Tommy Shelby is back, and we finally see him in the full trailer for Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man. For those who followed the series that became a global phenomenon — and helped establish Cillian Murphy’s fame long before his Best Actor Oscar — the wait has been long.

The trailer confirms something crucial: this will not be a simple epilogue, but a personal war. No longer a collective portrait of generations scarred by two world wars, but an intimate confrontation between a man and the consequences of everything he built.

Set in Birmingham in 1940, at the height of World War II destruction, the film finds Tommy returning from self-imposed exile to face what the production notes describe as his most devastating reckoning yet. The territory he left behind is no longer the same — and neither is he.

Among the new cast members, it remains unclear who Rebecca Ferguson plays, though her dialogue suggests a figure of immense authority who forces Tommy to confront his past. She accuses him of living in a house haunted by those who died because of him and of abandoning not only his “kingdom” but also his son.

That son is Duke Shelby, played by Barry Keoghan, the illegitimate heir Tommy discovered only at the end of season six, now leading the gang. According to both Ferguson’s character and Ada, Duke is running the Peaky Blinders as if it were 1919 again, undoing everything the family fought to achieve and returning to raw violence, alcohol, and criminal chaos.

The situation may be even worse.

Tim Roth appears as a clearly antagonistic English officer who secretly asks Duke if he is willing to commit treason, an act that could decide the war in Nazi Germany’s favor. Duke’s response that the world never cared about him implies a dangerous willingness to betray everything.

The conflict, therefore, expands beyond family drama into global stakes.

Stephen Graham returns as Hayden Stagg, confronting Tommy before he sets out to find his son. The sense is that catastrophe is already in motion, and only Tommy might still stop it.

Visually, the film looks far more cinematic than the series, with sweeping wartime destruction, shadow-filled interiors, and the operatic style that has always defined the story. Every frame feels like a farewell.

The soundtrack continues the show’s identity, featuring a haunting new track by Grian Chatten of Fontaines D.C., alongside contributions from Amy Taylor and other artists tied to the Peaky Blinders soundscape. The lyric “How does it feel to be a savage and a beast?” echoes like a verdict on Tommy himself.

And at the center of everything is Cillian Murphy.

With minimal dialogue, he commands every moment. His Tommy is greyer, exhausted, and yet more dangerous, a man forced to decide whether to confront his legacy or burn it down entirely. In a darkly ironic moment inside the Garrison, younger characters fail to recognize him. He simply shrugs: “Perhaps someone should explain to them who I am.”

The Immortal Man opens in select cinemas on March 6 and arrives on Netflix on March 20, with future stories expected to follow the next generation of the Shelby family after the war.