Idris Elba to return as Luther, but in the movie 'Luther: The Fallen Sun'

British actor Idris Elbas character of John Luther from the thriller series Luther has been away for quite some timeIn the 2019 finale of Luther the dark series about the complicated detective he is arrested and cuffed by Schenk played by Dermot Crowley and sent to prisonNow hes returning for a movie continuation of his story reuniting with director Jamie Payne and series creatorwriter Neil Cross reports Entertainment WeeklyHes done so much to bend the law in order to catch the bad guys that hes ended up in jail Elba said So thats where we start the story Hes contemplating what hes going to do with his lifeAccording to Entertainment Weekly though Elba said the shows ardent fans had a lot to do with getting the movie version going They really wanted it And I wanted it viewers neednt watch all five seasons of the thriller series in order to get up to speedThe story in some ways continues if you binge the series from season one to the film the story is continuous director Payne saidBut because the film has got such a larger platform we thought it was important that if someone was watching the film for the first time that it had its own story So you could watch the film and go back and then binge the series It was important to all of us that the audience could find a way into the series and to the lore Payne addedMuch of that lore surrounds the antihero at the centre of it all at turns dedicated destructive troubled magnetic And despite some new faces Cynthia Erivo and Andy Serkis play freshly introduced characters Luthers motivations remain the sameLuther is just so haunted thats his whole thing Elba said as quoted by Entertainment WeeklyEven when hes a free man he cant help but chase it chase the ghosts that get into his head And I think thats what drives him in this filmHes just very haunted by things hes done things he could have done people that have diedStill prison has changed him and we as viewers have changed since Luthers last outing too Payne saidThe film really digs into again our primal fears says the directorWeve all gone for a period of time where we were literally locked in our houseHe added And in a very contemporary society were all so visible now Its almost like I can look through the vast walls of our hearts into each others life in a way that weve never looked before And I think that makes us all very vulnerableAlso ReadJerry Bruckheimer Would love to have Johnny back in Pirates franchiseThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever