The Peaky Blinders movie — officially titled The Immortal Man — storms into theaters for a limited release on March 6, 2026, and the date hits with the force of a Shelby Company Ltd. ledger slamming onto a table. After years of radio silence, the Shelby story is finally roaring back to life. Netflix will take over two weeks later on March 20, 2026, but make no mistake: this chapter was built for the big screen first.
Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) has swaggered through gun smoke, Belfast alleys, opium dens, Parliament power plays, and Romani camps. But now the Peaky Blinders movie drops him into World War II — a battlefield so massive it makes former foes like Sabini, Campbell, and Luca Changretta look like warm-ups. This isn’t a tidy epilogue. It’s the fiercest, widest war Tommy has ever walked into… and the one that might finally test the myth of the “immortal” Shelby.
A War That Doesn’t Care Who Tommy Shelby Thinks He Is
The Peaky Blinders movie picks up in the middle of the Second World War, years after Tommy rode away from his old life, burning the wagon that symbolized everything he wanted to leave behind. The world didn’t stop him. Birmingham is battered, and chaos swallows entire neighborhoods, not just rival crews. For once, Tommy can’t walk into a room, light a cigarette, and bend the situation with a threat and a stare.
But Cillian Murphy stepping back into this role means we still see flashes of the man behind the façade. The one who cheated death in the Garrison explosion, stared down Billy Kimber with zero fear, and fought off the Changretta hit squad with instinct and grit. The war may be bigger, but Tommy has never been intimidated by the size of a threat, only by the ghosts that chase him.
The film plunges him into work that goes beyond political schemes of the later Peaky Blinders seasons. There’s no Parliament seat to protect, business line to salvage, or vendetta to feed. There’s only survival, pure and brutal.
Old Names Return, New Names Complicate Everything
Netflix hasn’t listed every returning character yet, but fans know the Shelby past has a nasty habit of kicking down the door. Whether it’s Arthur’s volatility, Ada’s sharp intelligence, or Esme’s cryptic warnings, someone from Tommy’s old world will step back into this fight. The show has always thrived on unfinished business.
But the Peaky Blinders movie brings new forces into Tommy’s orbit too. Rebecca Ferguson, Barry Keoghan, and Tim Roth join the cast, and none of them are the type to be decorative. Keoghan alone carries the kind of wildcard energy that recalls the tension of season two, when every room Sabini walked into went cold. Roth brings a stillness that could rival Campbell’s precision. Ferguson can shift from warmth to threat with the same speed Polly once did.
The Peaky Blinders movie remembers but doesn’t repeat the same episode formulas. It’s expanding its world.
Why The Peaky Blinders Movie Belongs in Theaters
Tommy Shelby is a character made for the big screen. The Garrison standoffs. The horse races. Tommy walking through the fog after surviving a firing squad. The Shelby brothers charging into battle against the Italians. These moments always carried cinematic impact.
The Peaky Blinders movie steps into wartime chaos, and that demands scale. Explosions, smoke, silence before terror, the pressure of decisions that pull Tommy back into violence he swore he was done with. Netflix giving it a limited theatrical run is a confident move. This chapter of the Peaky Blinders story has muscle to hold its own.
One Chapter Ends and Another Begins
Even with the Peaky Blinders movie steering Tommy into the fire again, this isn’t the final stop for the Shelby legacy. A follow-up series is already in development, focused on the next generation. But before the new era arrives, Tommy will face one more test.