Luther: The Fallen Sun trailer has dropped. Here's when it's coming

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13 Jan 2023, 10:58

Luther fans are punching the air as the teaser trailer for the upcoming feature film Luther: The Fallen Sun has landed, set to hit screens on 24 February and 10 March on Netflix.

The official synopsis: "In Luther: The Fallen Sun - an epic continuation of the award-winning television saga reimagined for film - a gruesome serial killer is terrorising London while brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther (Idris Elba) sits behind bars.

"Haunted by his failure to capture the cyber psychopath who now taunts him, Luther decides to break out of prison to finish the job by any means necessary."

Detective John Luther is set to fly the London nest and travel further afield, with teaser shots released last month showing him in a snow-filled location.

The actor told Empire about the project: "We really peel the onion back here because we had the time and scale to do that.

"It also gives Neil [Cross, Luther’s creator] a lot more, you know, Luther-land to play with, in terms of where Luther can go, how he goes, what the landscape is.

"We break out of the gritty streets of London, we take it outside of that a little bit. And that’s great. It feels like now we’re entering a different life of the Luther experience."

The actor continued: "It’s really dangerous when expanding from television to film to throw a lot of money at it, and for that moment to change the characteristics of the show.

"I wanted to make sure that even though we had a bigger budget, [we don’t] distort the parameters of Luther-land too much.

"We do amplify the action and do amplify the stakes. But [season three’s] man-under-the-bed moment? That don’t cost you much money. Those moments are still intact."

Elba told LADbible previously about the movie starring Genius actor Cynthia Erivo and Andy Serkis (Lord of the Rings): "The Luther film, guess what, we have finished it and we have some finishing work to do on the movie but it's nearly there. We're really proud of it."

He shared: "The world of Luther as a television show and film is similar, but the film has [huge] scale.

"We're opening the doors and widening it so anything's possible when you can do that."