Netflix has released the official trailer for the highly anticipated Luther: The Fallen Sun, starring Idris Elba.
It will hit select theaters on February 24, followed by a Netflix release on March 10.
Netflix also shared new images of Idris, again as DCI John Luther, who was last seen being sent to prison in the BBC’s dramatic series finale.
The action-packed trailer opens with Luther fighting with his fellow prisoners before escaping.
Once he is free and back in town, it seems that a woman needs his help to get revenge on someone after they have done something bad to her son.
Action: Netflix has released the official trailer for the highly anticipated Luther: The Fallen Sun, starring Idris Elba.
Luther is then heard saying, “I need to stop this man, I’m still a cop,” before the armed forces tell him that if he doesn’t stand down, “he’ll be shot dead.”
The villain of the film is then heard saying, ‘John, I looked you straight in the eye because I was curious and wanted to know if you would see it in me. Because that’s what you are, isn’t it? The man who knows everything about people like me.
Tense scenes then show Luther with blood on his face after fighting, as he says, “He wants the world to think the bad dream has come true.”
Viewers then see Luther fighting the villain in a London Underground station before being trained again by armed officers.
It ends with a close-up of Luther saying ‘Let the nightmare come, because I’m ready.’
The streaming service previously took to Twitter to confirm that the long-awaited new visual will be called Luther: The Fallen Sun.
He also revealed that the film, which will follow up on the dramatic 2019 series finale, will be released in March next year.
Fight: The action-packed trailer begins with Luther fighting with other prisoners before escaping.
Mission: Once you are free and back in town, it seems that a woman needs your help to get revenge on someone after they did something bad to her son.
It comes after Idris gave fans an idea of what to expect in the new film, revealing that it will follow his ‘haunted’ character who was sent to prison in the 2019 finale.
He told Entertainment Weekly: “He’s done so much to break the law in order to catch bad guys that he ended up in jail.”
So that’s where we start the story. He is contemplating what he is going to do with his life.
Meanwhile, Idris also spoke to Empire Magazine about the ‘dangers’ of moving the psychological crime thriller from TV to film.
Luther is then heard saying, ‘I need to stop this man, I’m still a cop,’ before the armed forces tell him that if he doesn’t stand down, they’ll ‘shoot him to death’.
New: The streaming service previously took to Twitter to confirm that the long-awaited new image will be called Luther: The Fallen Sun
He said: ‘It’s really dangerous when you expand from TV to film to throw a lot of money at it and at that point change the features of the show.
“I wanted to make sure that even though we had a bigger budget, we didn’t skew the parameters of Luther-land too much.”
Idris did not reveal where the film will take place, but did confirm that the new film will “leave” in London.
“We got off the gritty streets of London, we took it a bit outside of that,” he shared.
He is also serving as a producer on the film, which was directed by Jamie Payne and written by Neil Cross, and will also star Andy Serkis and Cynthia Erivo.
Tense: Netflix also shared new images of Idris, once again as DCI John Luther, who was last seen being sent to prison in the BBC’s dramatic series finale.
The television series Luther began its first series in 2010, before ending with its fifth season nine years later.
The fifth and final season of Luther aired for four consecutive nights in 2019.
Idris revealed that he wrapped filming on the movie earlier this year, telling LADbible: “The Luther movie, guess what, we’ve finished it and we have some final work to do on the movie, but it’s almost there.”
“We are very proud of it,” he added.
Luther: The Fallen Sun will hit select theaters on February 24, followed by a Netflix release on March 10.
Coming soon! Luther: The Fallen Sun will hit select theaters on February 24, followed by a Netflix release on March 10.