Release Date: March 6, 2026 | Director: Tom Harper | Writer: Steven Knight | Star: Cillian Murphy**
Tommy Shelby rides again. Four years after Peaky Blinders Series 6 finale—where he faked his death and galloped into mist on a white horse—the Shelby family patriarch returns for The Immortal Man. Set in 1940 Birmingham during World War II, the film finds Tommy confronting his most destructive reckoning yet. The title refers not to literal immortality, but to Tommy’s refusal to die properly—suicide attempts, assassination plots, terminal illness diagnoses, and now global war cannot finish him.
From Exile to War
Series 6 ended with Tommy discovering his “inoperable brain tumor” was a lie—Oswald Mosley’s scheme to make Tommy kill himself. The depression nearly worked. Instead, Tommy burned his possessions and vanished. The Immortal Man picks up with World War II raging. Tommy’s self-imposed exile ends when family and country need him. The Shelbys as criminal empire must now intersect with British war effort—patriotism versus profit, survival versus sacrifice.
Old Faces, New Blood
Cillian Murphy returns alongside Sophie Rundle (Ada), Ned Dennehy (Charlie Strong), Packy Lee (Johnny Dogs), and Ian Peck (Curly). Stephen Graham’s Hayden Stagg returns from Series 6. The new additions are seismic: Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Roth, and Barry Keoghan as Pinto Shelby—a new family member positioned as potential successor. Keoghan’s casting suggests franchise continuation beyond Murphy’s “proper ending.”
End or Beginning?
Murphy insists this is closure: “It feels like a proper bookend to the whole 36 hours of television.” But Steven Knight hedges—”prepare people for what comes next.” The “what comes next” could be Keoghan’s Pinto Shelby spin-off, or Knight’s teased “new generation” show set in 1970s. The Immortal Man serves as both finale and launchpad.
The release strategy mirrors this duality: limited theatrical March 6 for awards qualification and fan events, then Netflix global March 20 for mass audience. The 14-day window is Netflix’s new prestige model—Rustin, Maestro, The Killer all followed similar paths.