Peaky Blinders fans declare Netflix film a masterpiece after official trailer

Peaky Blinders fans are already showering the new Netflix movie with praise after a tense new teaser.

The Immortal Man, written by creator Steven Knight and starring Cillian Murphy as the returning Tommy Shelby, will close this chapter of the Peaky Blinders story and set us up for a highly-aniticipated sequel series (with or without our resident gypsy gangster).

After confirming the release date is in March, Netflix has now dropped the first teaser trailer for the movie, which is set in World War Two, 1940s Birmingham.

The one-minute trailer opens on a grey-haired, panting Tommy, entirely alone as the voiceover asks: ‘Whatever happened to Tommy Shelby? The famous gypsy gangster?’

We’re then thrown into action, with shots of an injured man, a beeping train and a group of soldiers doing the Nazi salute.

In contrast to the violence, explosions and war sirens of the world outside, we see a lone Tommy, in self-imposed exile, declare in answer: ‘I’m not that man anymore’.

We get glimpses of Sophie Rundle as Ada Thorne and Barry Keoghan, whose character is leading a new generation of men. The film also stars icons like Rebecca Ferguson and Stephen Graham.

The voiceover then says: ‘Tommy, you’ve got to come back’.

In a call to action, the teaser ends with Tommy slamming the desk, gunshots and hints of warfare as he emerges from the dust for one last facedown.

As Knight teased: ‘The country is at war, and so, of course, are our Peaky Blinders. It will be an explosive chapter in the Peaky Blinders story. No holds barred. Full-on Peaky Blinders at war.’

While fans agonise over the fate of their favourite Brummie gangster, portrayed by the Academy Award-winning Cillian, the trailer has proven there’s plenty to look forward to.

Needless to say, the tantalising first look after a three-year wait has viewers on tenterhooks, with one user Murugathas Verujan, calling it a ‘masterpiece’ already and marquisandrew delacring ‘Netflix has cooked so hard’.

On X the leo-man called the end-scene walk ‘absolute cinema’, a sentiment echoed by several other fans, while many more welcomed Tommy back on screens like an old friend.

Although we don’t know much about the plot beyond Tommy returning to the fold during wartime in England, some are concerned that this truly will spell the end of the beloved protagonist.

In a new interview, he recalled shooting his last scene.

‘We were on the side of a hill in the Peak District somewhere, in the pissing rain, and we were losing the light. But it was a really emotional scene,’ he told Empire magazine, noting that afterwards everyone just drove off.

Then quipped: ‘So it was absolutely, completely underwhelming.’

He will return as an executive producer on the two confirmed seasons of the new show about the next generation of the Shelby family, picking up in the 1950s.

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man arrives in cinemas on March 6 and on Netflix on March 20, 2026.

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