Overview
- The feature begins global streaming on Netflix on March 20 after a March 2 Birmingham premiere and a limited UK cinema rollout starting March 6.
- Independent-theater data cited by Collider shows more than $1.5 million in the first UK weekend and a Certified Fresh 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, with an industry source estimating a wider UK release could have reached roughly $35 million.
- Set in the 1940s, the story follows an older Tommy Shelby pulled back to confront rising fascist forces and family turmoil as his son Duke steps in.
- Steven Knight wrote the film and Tom Harper directed, with a cast led by Cillian Murphy, Barry Keoghan, Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Roth, Sophie Rundle and Stephen Graham.
- The film is positioned as a bridge to a follow-up series set in the 1950s, as cast and creator appearances and a Reddit AMA build momentum for the streaming debut.