Cillian Murphy, the Academy Award-winning actor, is all set to reprise his role of Tommy Shelby in the upcoming Netflix movie ‘Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man’. The movie is set in Birmingham, 1940, amid the chaos of WWII. It will showcase Tommy Shelby being driven back from a self-imposed exile to face his most destructive reckoning yet.
Officially announcing the film and its release date, the makers wrote, “Academy Award winner Cillian Murphy returns as the legendary gypsy gangster Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man. In select theaters March 6 and on Netflix March 20.”
Academy Award winner Cillian Murphy returns as the legendary gypsy gangster Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man.
— Netflix (@netflix) December 5, 2025
In select theaters March 6 and on Netflix March 20. pic.twitter.com/37DXLQtf6C
The movie will release in selected theatres on March 6, 2026, and will arrive on Netflix on March 20, 2026.
Meanwhile, a sequel to the Peaky Blinders series has also been planned. The ‘Oppenheimer’ star will join the show as executive producer, but it is not clear if he will star in the show or not. The new seasons will follow the story after the events of the upcoming ‘Peaky Blinders’ movie titled ‘The Immortal Man’. It will shift its focus to the new generation of the Birmingham clan.
The official synopsis of the new season reads, “Britain, 1953. After being heavily bombed in WWII, Birmingham is building a better future out of concrete and steel. In a new era of Steven Knight’s Peaky Blinders, the race to own Birmingham’s massive reconstruction project becomes a brutal contest of mythical dimensions. This is a city of unprecedented opportunity and danger: with the Shelby family right at its blood-soaked heart.”
Its previous seasons also starred Helen McCrory, Paul Anderson, Sophie Rundle, Joe Cole, Sam Neill, Annabelle Wallis, Iddo Goldberg, Tom Hardy, Charlotte Riley, Finn Cole, Natasha O’Keeffe, Paddy Considine, Adrien Brody, Aidan Gillen, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sam Claflin, Amber Anderson, James Frecheville, and Stephen Graham.
