What we learned from the first trailer for the new Peaky Blinders film

The first full trailer for the new Peaky Blinders film, The Immortal Man, has been released - by order of the people at Netflix.

Following on from Steven Knight's acclaimed TV historical crime drama series, the trailer shows Oscar winner Cillian Murphy reprising his role as flat cap-wearing gang leader Tommy Shelby, returning to Birmingham during World War Two.

New additions to the cast include Dune actress Rebecca Ferguson, Reservoir Dogs actor Tim Roth and Saltburn star Barry Keoghan, who plays Shelby's son who seems to need to be set on the right path.

Another award winner, Adolescence's Stephen Graham also returns, as well as Sophie Rundle as Tommy's sister, Ada.

Here is what we gleaned about the film in slightly more than two minutes:

The film is set in Birmingham in 1940 amid the destruction of World War Two, when a greying and older-looking Shelby is "driven back from a self-imposed exile to face his most destructive reckoning yet", the film's press notes tell us.

"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."

On his return, it appears that it's not the same Small Heath patch that he left and once commanded. Things have changed.

In the trailer, Ferguson's character, the mysterious Kaulo, is seen warning Tommy that he lives in "a house haunted with ghosts of people who died because of you...

"You abandoned your kingdom and you abandoned your son," she notes.

Ada then tells him: "Your gypsy son is running the Peaky Blinders like it's 1919, all over again."

By that she means his illegitimate firstborn son and newfound gang leader Duke Shelby, now played by the menacing-looking Keoghan [Conrad Khan played the young Duke in the TV series].

"I can't help him, because I'm not that man anymore," replies Tommy, convincing absolutely no-one, of course - least of all himself.

We're introduced to Roth's character, the British Fascist sympathiser Beckett, who asks Duke - in secret - if he is willing to become a traitor and help the Nazis.

"I need to know that you are willing to take part in an act of treason that will decide this war for Germany," he asks.

Duke replies with words to the effect that the world doesn't give a damn about him, so he doesn't care about the world either.

That could be a yes, then, we reckon.

Elsewhere, dad Tommy is grilled by Graham's returning character, Liverpudlian union convenor Hayden Stagg, before setting off to look for his lad.

Inside the old Garrison Tavern, some (if not all) of the younger generation are in need of a history lesson, with the main theme of today's class being to respect your elders, in no uncertain terms.

"Once, I nearly got... everything," Tommy is seen explaining to his son, man to man, over a glass of whiskey near the end - amid a montage of gunshots, explosions and, perhaps ominously, a coin flip from Duke.

"But nearly doesn't count."

The original Bafta-winning BBC TV show - which ran from 2013 for six series - was known for its stylish production as much as its metal-tipped criminal substance, and featured tunes by many cool bands and artists.

That seems set to continue, as a new song from Grian Chatten, frontman of the influential Dublin rock band Fontaines DC can be heard soundtracking the film trailer.

The lyrics to the haunting, industrial post-rock track, Puppet, ask: "How does it feel to be a puppet hanging from a nail?... How does it feel to be a freak among the freaks?"

On Wednesday evening, Chatten told BBC Radio 1's Jack Saunders that he had to resist the urge to shave his head, "Peaky-style", during the recording process.

"I got the joy of watching a lot of the scenes over and over again, and it's a wonderfully layered piece of work," he said, just ahead of the trailer dropping.

"There's an awful lot of inspiration to bounce back off. It's a really interesting thing to try and not spoil or kind of over narrate the scene, and allow the pictures to speak for themselves - which is the magic of cinema."

Fontaines fan, Murphy offered: "It's a banging tune on its own, but when you put it to picture, it's just really special."

The production notes suggest another new track from Amy Taylor of Australian rockers Amyl & the Sniffers will also feature in the movie.

Other artists who have helped to shape the somewhat sinister Peaky Blinders sound, including Nick Cave, Lankum and McLusky, will also feature, along with Girl In The Year Above and Chatten, both covering Massive Attack.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' 1994 track Red Right Hand provided the famous theme tune for the TV series, and we can expect to hear a new version of that.

The Immortal Man is out in "select" cinemas on 6 March.

That's two weeks ahead of its streaming release on 20 March.

Again written by Knight and directed by Tom Harper, the film will also feature actors including Ned Dennehy (Culprits), Packy Lee (Blue Lights) and Ian Peck (His Dark Materials), as well as Jay Lycurgo (Steve).

There appears to be no sign of Tommy Shelby's troubled older brother Arthur, however, who was played in the series by Paul Anderson.

You can check out the trailer below.

After the film, Peaky Blinders is to return to TV to follow the exploits of the new generation of the Shelby family after World War Two.