Luther: The Fallen Sun: Directed by Jamie Payne. With Idris Elba, Cynthia Erivo, Andy Serkis, Dermot Crowley. Brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther breaks out of prison to hunt down a sadistic serial killer who is terrorising London.

Luther: Created by Neil Cross. With Idris Elba, Dermot Crowley, Michael Smiley, Warren Brown. John Luther is a brilliant homicide detective with a knack for getting inside the minds of murderers. Unfortunately, his unconventional methods and personal demons put him at odds with his team.

His best known roles are as drug baron Russell "Stringer" Bell on the HBO series The Wire (2002), as DCI John Luther on the BBC One series Luther (2010), and as Heimdall in the …

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There had been rumblings of a Luther movie for close to a decade, and Idris Elba finally got his chance with Luther: The Fallen Sun. The film was released in select theaters and on Netflix earlier this year, but Elba is ready to jump back into Luther’s world.

Idris Elba has returned as John Luther in the first look at a film based on the BBC series. Netflix has announced the title of a new film that will reunite audiences with the grizzled detective. The streaming service also shared images from the film, which will be released in March 2023.

Actor Idris Elba collaborated with Denzel Washington for what used to be the latter’s highest-grossing movie American Gangster. Although Elba greatly admired Washington, the Luther star confided that he had a little trouble understanding the Oscar-winner’s methods at first.

A movie version of crime series “ Luther ” is moving forward, with writer-creator Neil Cross working on the script, the show’s star Idris Elba confirmed at the launch of Season 5 in London. “We are really advancing on getting a movie version [of the show] up on the screen,” Elba said.

Idris Elba will officially reprise his role as the brilliant detective John Luther for a “Luther” movie at Netflix, and he’ll be joined in the cast by Cynthia Erivo and Andy Serkis.

In January 2019, the fifth series of the BBC ’s gritty crime drama premiered to much fanfare, with decent reviews and ratings success paving the way for a long-awaited, feature-length mystery for Idris Elba ’s grizzled antihero. Since then, details of the Luther movie have been mainly classified, with only a few tidbits escaping.