After the high-stakes drama of Peaky Blinders’ sixth season, creator Steven Knight wants to finish up the story of Cillian Murphy’s Tommy Shelby and the rest of his criminal mates with a feature film, The Immortal Man.
The show first aired in 2013 and followed the exploits of a street gang known as the Peaky Blinders directly after the first World War. Across six seasons, the Birmingham-based criminals tried to expand their empire despite numerous outside threats and their own turbulent relationships.
After a lot of murder, betrayal and shoot-outs, the final season ended with head honcho Tommy Shelby riding off into the sunset after finding out his terminal brain tumour was actually the result of a malicious false diagnosis orchestrated by one of his many enemies. So what happens next?
That’s what the Peaky Blinders movie will explore. The film was greenlit last year and the cast and crew have been drip-feeding us information. Here’s everything we know about the “explosive” new chapter in the Peaky Blinders story.
It’s coming in 2026
Knight has been talking about a Peaky Blinders movie since before the sixth season even aired. However COVID caused a number of delays and Netflix only greelit the project in June 2024. Production started at the end of September and wrapped at the end of last year.
Netflix has confirmed that The Immortal Man will be launching in cinemas before it hits the streamer. Fans will be able to watch Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man in select cinemas on March 6, 2026 before it joins Netflix on March 20.
Old friends and new faces
The Peaky Blinders movie will feature a script written by series creator Steven Knight while season one’s director Tom Harper is also back. Cillian Murphy is definitely returning as Tommy Shelby as well. “I would love to do a movie if there’s more story to tell,” he told Radio Times in 2023 and a year later, Knight confirmed Murphy had signed onto the project.
“It seems like Tommy Shelby wasn’t finished with me,” Murphy said in a statement. “It is very gratifying to be collaborating with Steven Knight and Tom Harper on the film version of Peaky Blinders. This is one for the fans.”
In a recent interview with The Observer, Murphy explained why he decided to return to Peaky Blinders. “Because we got a really good script, and I have a sense of duty to the fans because, in many ways, they made the show the success that it is,” he sais. “It’s a proper bookend to the whole 36 hours of television.”
He went on to say he’d been listening to a lot of Fontaines D.C.‘s latest album ‘Romance‘ to get him back into the mindset of Tommy Shelby. “I did work out that I’ve been playing the character for a quarter of my life, which is kind of mad,” he added.
He’s not the only familiar face either. Netflix has confirmed that Stephen Graham will return as union leader Hayden Stagg, Sophie Rundle is back as Tommy’s sister Ada Shelby and Ned Dennehy’s Charlie Strong will also be featured. Ian Peck’s Curly and Packy Lee’s Johnny Dogs will also be reprising their roles for the Peaky Blinders movie.
Sam Clafin, who played fascist politician Oswald Mosley, said he’d “love to revisit the character” but recently confirmed he won’t be returning. “Sadly I’m not in the film, though I’m so excited as a fan of the series,” he told Metro.
Back in 2022 Kate Phillips, who played Linda Shelby (the ex-wife of Tommy’s brother Arthur), told Radio Times she’d be “thrilled” to do a Peaky Blinders movie but has also confirmed she is not involved. “There were discussions and then it didn’t pan out. The life of an actor is, you’re sort of always at the behest of other people’s visions. But I’m excited to see the film.”
Tom Hardy has also spoken about Alfie Solomon making an appearance in the movie after returning for the season six finale but claimed he hadn’t been invited back just yet.
Creator Steven Knight has also said that a new character introduced in the last season of Peaky Blinders will play a big part in the film. “In series six, we’re bringing in the new generation and they are going to be part of what happens in the film, ” Knight told Esquire in 2022. “I think it’s finding those actors that you just watch and you think, there you go. There’s the future.”
Award-winning talent
A number of new actors have been confirmed to star in the Peaky Blinders movie. Dune’s Rebecca Ferguson, Saltburn’s Barry Keoghan, Tim Roth and Jay Lycurgo have all joined the cast in unconfirmed roles
Netflix gave fans a first look at Keoghan’s mysterious character at the start of November. The image sees Keoghan wearing a flat cap and leaning out of a van window – putting him right in the heart of whatever criminal business will drive the Peaky Blinders movie forward.
War is coming
The official description of The Immortal Man reads: “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…”
In 2021, Knight told Variety that the Peaky Blinders movie will be “a fitting conclusion to the story told so far.” When production began in September, he said (via Netflix)”: “I’m thrilled to see the cameras rolling on this new chapter of the Peaky Blinders story, set during World War II. The country is at war, and so, of course, are our Peaky Blinders.”
Details about the plot are currently under wraps but Knight has promised that “it will be an explosive chapter in the Peaky Blinders story. No holds barred. Full-on Peaky Blinders at war.”
“I think the film is gonna be a step up again, and it’s gonna be great that Peaky fans can meet in one place and watch it,” he told NME earlier this year. “The budget will be bigger, but also because we know we’re ending this chapter, we’re all going to try to do our best.
Absolutely
Despite Knight describing the Peaky Blinders movie as a “fitting conclusion” to the story so far, Netflix has been leaning away from the finality of it all. The streamer has called it “an epic continuation” while Knight has promised an “explosive chapter”, leaving the door wide open for more movies, spin-offs and TV shows.
“The film, I know exactly what it’s about. And I know what two stories it’s going to tell. How the story will unfold, I don’t know. What will happen after that, I want that to depend on the film. For all we know somebody is going to pop out – I think I know who it’s going to be,” Knight told Esquire in 2022. “Tommy will never be satisfied. I don’t know what’s in store for him. But I think he will never rest,” Murphy added.
More recently, Knight has teased a new project set after the events of the Peaky Blinders movie. “We are going to focus on the new generation in a series that will take place after the Second World War. And then, who knows? Why not a clothing line?” He went on to confirm the Peaky Blinders movie “won’t be the end, let me put it that way”.
In October 2025, it was officially confirmed that two seasons of a Peaky Blinders sequel will be airing on the BBC. Set 17 years after the original run, the new batch of episodes will focus on a “new generation of Shelbys. “Once again, it will be rooted in Birmingham and will tell the story of a city rising from the ashes of the Birmingham blitz. It will be a hell of a ride,” promised Steven Knight. Murphy is onboard as executive producer but casting news is still to be announced.
And if all the waiting is getting too much, Steven Knight’s new drama House Of Guinness is out now.
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