When is Luther: The Fallen Sun coming out on Netflix?

BBC’s favourite grizzled detective DCI John Luther is getting his first feature-length outing, and its coming to Netflix. More than four years since its final season, Luther is back, and fans don’t have long to wait, because Luther: The Fallen Sun is just around the corner.

Billed as “an epic continuation of the award-winning television saga,” The Fallen Sun sees the return of Idris Elba in the titular role following the dramatic conclusion of the show’s fifth and final season. Running from 2010 to 2019, the gritty crime-drama proved a big hit for the BBC, with Elba praised for perhaps his most iconic role since his scene-stealing turn as Stringer Bell in The Wire.

The final season of Luther wrapped up with the detective sent to jail after years of playing fast and loose with the law. Now a new villain is on the scene, and Luther is determined to hunt him down.

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The film’s official synopsis reads: “In Luther: The Fallen Sun, a gruesome serial killer is terrorizing London while brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther 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.”

Directed by Jamie Payne – director of several Luther episodes – and written by series creator Neil Cross, The Fallen Sun sees Elba pitted against menacing tech billionaire David Robey, played by The Lord of the Rings star Andy Serkis. Also starring is Cynthia Erivo as counter intelligence operative Odette Raine, and Dermot Crowley, who reprises his role as Luther’s former superintendent DSU Martin Schenk.

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