Tommy Shelby returns in The Immortal Man trailer

Watch the trailer for new film Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man as Tommy Shelby returns this March

Cillian Murphy is dusting off his cap and coat, and getting back on the horse. And he has a son — Duke Shelby. The film hits select cinemas on March 6, and streams on Netflix March 20.

What do we know about Tommy Shelby in this new film

Murphy has this to say in the new press release:

“When we meet him, he’s as broken as he has been. He’s just medicating and living in this purgatory that he’s created for himself in this big old house. He’s in this liminal space, not really living, he’s not really dead. He’s ignoring the world, he’s ignoring his family.”

What family is left, at least. “You live in a house haunted by ghosts,” a mysterious new character, played by Rebecca Ferguson (Dune, A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE), tells him in the trailer. “You abandoned your kingdom. And you abandoned your son.”

Enter Duke Shelby (Barry Keoghan).

Introduced in Season 6 of Peaky Blinders, Duke is Tommy’s illegitimate child, the heir to his gangster throne. Seven years on, he’s running the Peaky Blinders “like it’s 1919 all over again,” as Ada Shelby (Sophie Rundle) tells Tommy.

The young Shelby is in the perfect position to be taken advantage of by a new ally even more unsavoury than the typical Peaky Blinders contemporaries. Enter British Fascist sympathiser Beckett (Tim Roth Reservoir Dogs, The Hateful Eight).

Tommy Shelby, of course, has no love for fascists; he spent the later seasons of Peaky Blinders working to take down the British Union of Fascists from the inside. But faced with the growing flames of another world war, this veteran of the Great War has retreated within himself. Perhaps only the prospect of a disillusioned Shelby heir taking the side of the Nazis can draw Tommy out of his self-imposed exile.

You can judge how this might turn out for yourself in the new trailer.