‘Oi… Looooooooofaaa!’ That’s the sound of someone calling ‘action’ on a new movie spin-off of Idris Elba’s BBC crime series, Luther.
It’s yet another project in the pipeline for the Londoner, now quite possibly the busiest man in Hollywood. With two movies currently in cinemas (Beast, Three Thousand Years of Longing), the actor/DJ/businessman/podcaster/mogul is picking up the Met Police badge again for this big-screen thriller.
The movie version of Luther has been rumoured since the show launched in 2010, but now filming has wrapped and fans won’t have long to wait until the return of the suave, zero-BS London detective.
Here’s all you need to know about the Luther movie.
When is the Luther movie released and what platform will it be on?
The upcoming Luther movie will be released in 2023, with an exact date yet to be announced.
It’s confirmed that the Luther movie will be arriving on Netflix – the streaming platform is producing the project – although it remains to be seen if it will also be getting a cinema release.
Who is in the cast of the Luther movie?
Idris Elba is back as the titular detective, DCI John Luther, a cop whose murder investigations always lead him into dark and difficult terrain. Often, sociopathic nemesis, Alice Morgan (