Trailer Break Down - Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
- Jimmy Palmquist
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After nearly four years since Peaky Blinders wrapped its six-season run, the franchise has returned in the form of a cinematic continuation. The new trailer for Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man delivers exactly what fans have been itching for: Tommy Shelby back in the trenches, but in a world and at a moment we’ve never seen before. I am so stoked to see Tommy back in action. I loved the show and I can't wait to see what he does next.
The trailer opens with the haunting question, what happened to Thomas Shelby? This instantly hooks both new viewers and die-hard fans alike. Rather than a swaggering kingpin, we meet a *withdrawn, self-exiled Tommy Shelby, walking away from the life that made him infamous. His palpable defeat, captured in voiceovers like, “I’m not that man anymore,” sets the tone. This isn’t nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake, but a character study of a man wrestling with who he was and who he has become.
Unlike the series’ more grounded gangster backdrop, the trailer throws us directly into World War II Birmingham, buildings explode, gunfire echoes, and the stakes are global as well as personal. This is a fresh era for the Peaky world: war isn’t just a backstory, it’s a force reshaping every character’s motivations.
The emotional heart of the trailer, however, isn’t bombs, it’s family conflict. Imagine that, the Shelby family has conflict. This time though, it's primarily between Tommy and his grown son Duke (Barry Keoghan). Played with dangerous intensity, Duke isn’t looking to be led, he’s running the Peaky Blinders like it’s 1919 all over again, a living reminder of a past Tommy once ruled but now tries to distance himself from.
The trailer’s pacing is relentless, quick shots of explosions and whispers of betrayal give way to quiet, introspective beats where Tommy wrestles with his identity. The combination of visceral wartime imagery and internal psychological conflict is one of the trailer’s most compelling features: it promises that this film isn’t just action, but introspection through violence.
Visually, the look feels familiar yet refreshed, dark undertones, industrial imagery, and a sense that war has made everything grittier, harsher, and more unforgiving. That aesthetic continuity paired with a tonal shift, from criminal empire drama to war-tinged family tragedy, is bold and intriguing.
Ultimately, the trailer promises something bigger than another crime story, it hints at a war that’s not just external, but internal. Tommy Shelby may be “not that man anymore,” but the world still needs him, whether he likes it or not. And no matter how much time has passed, that internal battle might be the fiercest conflict of all.
Check out the trailer below:
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