{"id":2342808,"date":"2026-03-23T22:24:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2342808"},"modified":"2026-03-23T22:24:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:24:58","slug":"cillian-murphy-and-grian-chatten-explain-nick-caves-new-version-of-red-right-hand-for-peaky-blinders-the-immortal-man-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/cillian-murphy-and-grian-chatten-explain-nick-caves-new-version-of-red-right-hand-for-peaky-blinders-the-immortal-man-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Cillian Murphy and Grian Chatten explain Nick Cave&#8217;s new version of &#8216;Red Right Hand&#8217; for &#8216;Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man&#8217; movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/cillian-murphy\">Cillian Murphy<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/fontaines-d-c\">Fontaines D.C.<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/grian-chatten\">Grian Chatten<\/a> have explained <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/nick-cave\">Nick Cave<\/a>\u2018s new version of \u2018Red Right Hand\u2019 for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/features\/film-features\/peaky-blinders-movie-cast-plot-release-date-tommy-shelby-3814955\"><i>Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/film-reviews\/peaky-blinders-immortal-man-review-cillian-murphy-barry-keoghan-3932746\">\u2018Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man\u2019 review: Tommy Shelby is back in business<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The\u00a0movie\u00a0spin-off from the hit\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/tag\/netflix\">Netflix<\/a> series hit the streaming service on Friday (March 20), with Murphy returning as the lead character Tommy Shelby,\u00a0alongside Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Roth, Sophie Rundle,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/barry-keoghan\">Barry Keoghan<\/a>\u00a0and Stephen Graham.<\/p>\n<p>Last month,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/listen-to-fontaines-d-c-s-grian-chattens-haunting-puppet-as-peaky-blinders-the-immortal-man-movie-soundtrack-announced-3930310\">the soundtrack for the film was unveiled<\/a>, with five new songs having been created especially for the movie.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Taylor of\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/amyl-and-the-sniffers\">Amyl &amp; the Sniffers<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/lankum\">Lankum<\/a>,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/girl-in-the-year-above\">Girl In The Year Above<\/a>, and Chatten, Carlos O\u2019Connell, and Tom Coll from Fontaines D.C. all contributed songs to the soundtrack, while Cave recorded a new version of \u2018Right Hand Man\u2019 \u2013 his 1994 track that served as the theme to the original series.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Red Right Hand (Immortal)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5szR0RqqnYU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Now, Murphy and Chatten have opened up about the decision to have Cave re-record the track for the film\u2019s soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p>In a new clip shared by Netflix, Murphy says they \u201cvery deliberately\u201d delayed including the theme tune in the film right away, explaining that it was important that Cave sang it \u201cat his age now\u201d, giving the effect of it being \u201cbroken and shattered\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Chatten added: \u201cWhen I was watching the film, and that part came on, I was really hyper-listening to the new details of his voice, to discover how much time had passed, not only for him, but for Tommy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think, to hold it back as well, to withhold the title track, the theme tune, until he\u2019s up on the horse, but he\u2019s battered, and it really works,\u201d Murphy added, to which Chatten responded: \u201cSeeing Tommy covered in mud and hearing Nick, like, covered in age marks of living.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DWOSos9EXql\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/watch-cillian-murphy-and-fontaines-d-c-s-grian-chatten-talk-about-creating-puppet-for-peaky-blinders-the-immortal-man-3930840\">Chatten and Murphy have also spoken about Chatten\u2019s song<\/a><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/listen-to-fontaines-d-c-s-grian-chattens-haunting-puppet-as-peaky-blinders-the-immortal-man-movie-soundtrack-announced-3930310\"> \u2018Puppet\u2019<\/a>. During the conversation, Murphy recalled <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/fontaines-d-c-london-camden-electric-ballroom-setlist-footage-photos-3786117\">going to Fontaines\u2019 intimate launch show for their 2024 album \u2018Romance\u2019<\/a>, and says he remembered\u00a0thinking the music sounded like it had been written for\u00a0<i>Peaky Blinders<\/i>,\u00a0which led to him and director Tom Harper approaching them about the possibility of creating original music for\u00a0<i>The Immortal Man<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Chatten replied: \u201cIt\u2019s\u00a0been a show all of us have been watching for a long time. We wanted to\u00a0kind of do\u00a0something that sounded inherently\u00a0<i>Peaky<\/i>. It\u2019s a songwriter\u2019s dream, really.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about \u2018Puppet\u2019,\u00a0he added: \u201cThat was\u00a0probably the\u00a0one that was the most delicate, lyrically. The vocals are so present in the mix.\u00a0Literally the\u00a0wrong letter at the end of the word I felt could throw things off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/cillian-murphy-says-he-is-just-a-fanboy-of-fontaines-d-c-3930386\">Murphy has previously spoken about his love for Fontaines D.C.<\/a>, telling\u00a0<i>BBC Radio 1 <\/i>in February: \u201cThere\u2019s certain music that just lends itself to\u00a0<i>Peaky Blinders<\/i>\u00a0\u2026 the Fontaines music seems to work, it has that outlaw quality, that dangerous quality \u2026.\u00a0they\u2019re\u00a0incredible songs, so it just clicked for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In February,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/peaky-blinders-immortal-man-soundtrack-interview-listen-antony-genn-martin-slattery-fontaines-dc-grian-chatten-nick-cave-massive-attack-3931880\"><em>The Immortal Man<\/em>\u00a0score composers Martin Slattery and Antony Genntell spoke to us<\/a> about their indie all-star new soundtrack.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s got a lot of guts and the feeling of the human hand,\u201d Genn said of the album, \u201cbrought to you by a lot of brilliant human hearts, minds and souls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the series\u2019 run,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/features\/peaky-blinders-soundtrack-music-interviews-season-5-cillian-murphy-creators-2538130\"><em>NME<\/em> spoke to Murphy about how a song is selected for the show<\/a>. \u201cYou just know when a song is \u2018Peaky\u2019,\u201d he said. \u201cThe artists are outsiders. They have resisted the tyranny of the mainstream, shall we say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/watch-cillian-murphy-and-fontaines-d-c-s-grian-chatten-talk-about-creating-puppet-for-peaky-blinders-the-immortal-man-3930840\">Last month, he also compiled a playlist of songs that define <em>Peaky Blinders<\/em><\/a>, including tracks by\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/black-sabbath\">Black Sabbath<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/leonard-cohen\">Leonard Cohen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/film-reviews\/peaky-blinders-immortal-man-review-cillian-murphy-barry-keoghan-3932746\"><em>NME<\/em>\u2018s three-star review of the film<\/a>, we said: \u201cPerhaps it\u2019s not as emotional as you might hope but this sombre final chapter of\u00a0<em>Peaky Blinders<\/em>\u00a0still wraps things up as tightly as a burial shroud. And for that, we doff our razor-lined caps.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nme.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cillian Murphy and Fontaines D.C.\u2019s\u00a0Grian Chatten have explained Nick Cave\u2018s new version of \u2018Red Right Hand\u2019 for Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man. 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