Overview
- Bell was photographed filming in Birmingham in full 1950s costume, arriving at a building marked “Shelby Construction” in a classic Jaguar.
- The continuation shifts the story to early post‑war Birmingham and advances the timeline about a decade after the 1940‑set film.
- An official synopsis casts Duke Shelby as older, wiser, more ambitious, and more dangerous at the heart of the new arc.
- Bell headlines alongside Charlie Heaton, Jessica Brown Findlay, Lashana Lynch, and Lucy Karczewski, with the series set to air on BBC and Netflix.
- The role of Duke moves from Barry Keoghan in The Immortal Man to Bell here, marking a planned generational shift from Cillian Murphy’s Tommy.