The latest look at the long-awaited Luther movie, which was recently revealed to be titled Luther: The Fallen Sun, finds Idris Elba’s unorthodox detective bruised and bloodied. Due to for release on Netflix, a pair of new images not only offer another look at Elba’s triumphant return, but also reveal War for the Planet of the Apes and The Lord of the Rings star Andy Serkis as the movie’s villain, tech billionaire David Robey. Check out the new images, which come courtesy of Total Film, below.

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Luther: The Fallen Sun will act as a continuation of the acclaimed television series of the same, which began on the BBC back in 2010. Luther introduces Idris Elba as the title character John Luther, a passionate detective with surprisingly violent methods, who ends up befriending a psychopath and murderer whom he fails to arrest due to lack of evidence. Over the following five seasons, Luther has tackled all manner of sadistic serial killers, with Luther: The Fallen Sun hoping to further open the “treasure box” of vicious tales. As Elba explains it…

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Writer Neil Cross also discusses the leap from the serial format to feature-length, and striving to maintain the same character while everything around them gets bigger and more expensive.

“We always wanted to do it because I felt that there is a real treasure box of stories.For Neil and I it was like: ‘Wow, it’s one thing to be on TV…’ But we always knew that we could slow it all down, take the time to be filmic, and take the audience on a real, big journey.”

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“The trick of moving from a small screen to a big screen is to maintain the integrity and continuity of that character. Rather than: ‘What can we do with this bigger budget and this bigger scale?’ – it’s: ‘How would Luther react in this circumstance?’ So although we’re on a much, much bigger scale, which both of us find very exciting and satisfying, it’s still incredibly important to both of us that this is a story with Idris Elba’s Luther at the heart of it.”

Luther: The Fallen Sun Will Appeal to Both Longtime Fans & Newbies

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Luther: The Fallen Sun picks up with the brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther (Idris Elba) now sitting 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. While the movie continues the story told by five previous seasons, director Jamie Payne has promised that Luther: The Fallen Sun will appeal to both longtime fans and newbies alike.

Starring Idris Elba, Cynthia Erivo, Andy Serkis, Dermot Crowley, Jess Liaudin, Lauryn Ajufo, and Natasha Patel, Luther: The Fallen Sun is scheduled to be released in March 2023, by Netflix.

“It was important to all of us that we absolutely want to bring the fans along, and for them to know that this story sits within a canon of so many other stories. But also you could come at it not having seen a single episode of Luther, and absolutely know where you stood.”