After a four-year hiatus, Peaky Blinders came back better than ever. In Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, Cillian Murphy (now with an Oscar to his name) portrayed former crime boss Tommy Shelby one last time, as a grief-stricken man furiously trying to write his own life story before it's too late. But when his son, Duke Shelby (Barry Keoghan) makes a deal with Nazi sympathizers to tank the economy, Tommy has to don the flat cap once more. The Immortal Man may have definitively ended Tommy’s story, but Duke’s has only begun. He will be the subject of a new sequel series announced by Netflix late last year, but the streamer just announced one big change: a new actor playing Duke himself. Jamie Bell’s Duke Shelby swaps a flat cap for a 1950s fedora in the Peaky Blinders sequel series. | NetflixNetflix recently released a first look at Jamie Bell as Duke Shelby in the still-unnamed Peaky Blinders sequel series. Bell, best known for playing the title role in the 2000 movie Billy Elliot and Ben Grimm in the much-maligned 2015 movie Fantastic Four, will portray Duke in 1950, in the years after WWII.“The race to rebuild Birmingham becomes a brutal contest of mythical dimensions,” Netflix’s announcement reads. “This is a city of unprecedented opportunity and jeopardy. At its blood-soaked heart is Duke Shelby (Jamie Bell): older, wiser, more ambitious, and most certainly more dangerous.” The time skip between The Immortal Man and this sequel series does more than just smooth over the transition between Keoghan (whose Ringo-packed schedule may not allow a full TV show commitment) and Bell. It also conveniently skips over a time that may not be the most interesting for a show like this. While The Immortal Man acknowledged the historical elephant in the room by literally opening with a scene in a concentration camp, this sequel series will skip right to reconstruction. Bell takes on the role of Duke Shelby from Barry Keoghan, who played the role in Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man. | NetflixNetflix is betting big on this series, as it has already been greenlit for two six-episode seasons. It’s also not pulling any punches with the supporting cast: Also joining the cast are Stranger Things’ Charlie Heaton, Downton Abbey’s Jessica Brown Findlay, and Captain Marvel’s Lashana Lynch, so this is well and truly Peaky Blinders: The Next Generation, though there’s no update on if any characters from the original series will carry over. This series may have a new title, a new star, and a new period, but expect to see the same old Peaky Blinders action. With this series coming from Peaky Blinders mastermind Steven Knight, this isn’t a reboot; it’s just an evolution into a new age, both in-universe and on streaming. Peaky Blinders and Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man are now streaming on Netflix.