When Empire spoke to Steven Knight for our Peaky Blinders issue, the Birmingham mob saga’s creator teased that Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man is a movie that “feels like the end of a novel.” And now, just hours before Father Christmas comes to leave a sack of nerdy swag beneath all of our trees (fingers crossed!), Netflix has decided to let us have a little glimpse within its pages. Yes, the Peaky movie trailer is here, folks — and you can watch it right now. Check it out below;
Silver fox Tommy? Check! That Shelby walk? Check! A flatcap, some slow-mo swagger, and the sense of something big a-brewing? Check, check, and treble-check! “Whatever happened to Tommy Shelby?” asks an off-screen voice at the top of this Immortal Man teaser. The answer, it seems, is as our man Tommy once plainly stated: “There is no rest for me in this world… perhaps the next.” Sure, we don’t exactly see much of the gypsy gangster’s grand return in this first look at the Peaky Blinders movie (though we do get glimpses of his sister Ada and Barry Keoghan’s as-yet-unnamed newcomer), but it looks like we’re in for a classic ‘just when he thought he was out, they pulled him back in’ type affair — only this one’s set at the height of World War II and has the unenviable task of following one of the all-time great series finales while it’s at it.
The official synopsis for Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man — which also co-stars Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Roth, Stephen Graham, Jay Lycurgo, and Ned Dennehy to name but a few of Knight and director Tom Harper’s starry ensemble — reads as follows: “Birmingham, 1940. Amidst the chaos of WWII, Tommy Shelby is driven back from a self-imposed exile to face his most destructive reckoning yet. With the future of the family and the country at stake, Tommy must face his own demons, and choose whether to confront his legacy, or burn it to the ground. By order of the Peaky Blinders…”
You heard ’em. Demons to face, legacies to confront or set alight, and the return of one Tommy Shelby. Roll on Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, in select cinemas from 6 March, and streaming on Netflix from 20 March.
