Cillian Murphy meets Barry Keoghan in first look at Peaky Blinders | Peaky Blinders

Two Irish acting stars reunite when Cillian Murphy meets Barry Keoghan in the first look at the eagerly awaited Peaky Blinders film.

Murphy questions his identity as “famous gypsy gangster” Tommy Shelby in a 70-second teaser released by Netflix on Christmas Eve.

The film sees Tommy expelled from self-imposed exile amid the chaos of World War II. In the trailer, a voiceover says: “What happened to Tommy Shelby? The famous gypsy gangster.”

“I’m not that guy anymore,” Shelby says, and a separate clip shows him walking with his head down and wearing his signature baker’s hat after a female voice says: “Tommy, you’ve got to come back.”

Viewers are also offered a glimpse of Keoghan’s character, who wears a white jacket with tattoos on his arms.

The highly anticipated film is a continuation of the hit BBC drama series, which followed the rise of the Shelby crime family in Birmingham.

The show’s six seasons spanned the end of World War I and until the end of Prohibition in the United States.

Returning cast members include Sophie Randle as Ada Shelby, Stephen Graham as union organizer Hayden Stagg, and Bucky Lee as Tommy’s friend Johnny Dogs.

New additions include Saltburn actor Keoghan, Dune actor Rebecca Ferguson and Reservoir Dogs star Tim Roth.

The film is directed by Tom Harper and written by creator Steven Knight, who will write the next James Bond film.

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man premieres in cinemas on March 6 next year, and will be available on Netflix from March 20.

In October, the BBC announced that Peaky Blinders would return with two new series focusing on a “new generation of Shelbys”.

The series is set in 1953, years after the events of the upcoming feature film, and is set to be filmed at Digbeth Loc Studios in Birmingham.

Murphy, 49, will return to executive produce but it has not been revealed whether he will return to his role as the protagonist.

This show is the latest incarnation in the Peaky Blinders universe following Rambert Studios’ ballet about Tommy.

The sixth series, which was broadcast in 2022 and billed as the final series, saw Tommy almost shoot himself after being given false information that he had a brain tumour.

Peaky Blinders first aired on BBC Two in 2013, before being picked up by Netflix in 2014, where it gained a global following and launched Murphy to international fame alongside co-stars Tom Hardy, Anya Taylor-Joy and the late Helen McCrory.

The drama, which also sparked a surge in flat-cap popularity, moved to BBC One in 2019 after winning a BAFTA award for Best Drama Series for its fourth season.