Luther: The Fallen Sun

'Luther' star Idris Elba and creator Neil Cross explain Netflix's 'Luther: The Fallen Sun' ending, and potential for new movies.

Now that Luther has been reintroduced to a new potential audience, incorporating more of the character's past is a possibility moving forward. "We never saw them setting first to her coffin and even if we had, I would still doubt she was in it," he says. As long as it's psychologically true to the character and his history, there are any number of stories that we can tell," Cross explains. While there is more humbleness to John after his ordeal according to Elba, this new attitude won't mean he'll be staying on the right side of the law. [Idris Elba](https://ew.com/person/idris-elba/)) has a rough journey during [Luther: The Fallen Sun](https://ew.com/creative-work/luther/). [Starting at rock bottom in prison](https://ew.com/movies/luther-the-fallen-sun-finds-john-luther-at-rock-bottom/) without his badge, John still manages to take down David Robey and comes out the other side with his confidence in himself returning.

You might think that Luther creator Neil Cross, who also wrote the movie, would be running out of ideas by this point. But in an interview for the Luther press ...

How about, instead of another movie, another season of the show, aka Luther Season 6? In an interview for The Fallen Sun press notes, Cross also hinted that, should there be another Luther movie, fans might get to see the return of Ruth Wilson as Alice Morgan. At the end of the movie, after Luther has saved the day and successfully taken down the serial killer, he’s taken to a government safe house. Without spoiling too much of the movie for those who haven’t watched it yet, The Fallen Sun ending implies that we may see Detective John Luther working on even bigger, more ambitious cases in the future. But in an interview for the Luther press notes, Cross said he always wanted to tell a Luther story via a movie, rather an TV show. “We worked incredibly hard to make the TV show as ambitious and cinematic as we possibly could, but it was always my passionate conviction that John Luther was just far bigger than the limits of the medium allowed us to be,” he said.

Idris Elba has returned as John Luther in "Luther: The Fallen Sun," a film continuation of the popular BBC show. It is now available on Netflix.

[Neil Cross](/topic/neil-cross), the show's creator, has written "Luther: The Fallen Sun". The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). The show has returned to the screen with "Luther: The Fallen Sun" after a four-year hiatus since the series finale was aired on BBC. On March 10, the film made its streaming debut, after a limited release on February 24 in theaters. This movie resumes with the protagonist, John Luther, who is disgraced and currently serving time in prison after the original series’s events. While the film has received generally positive reviews, some critics have criticized it as a potentially needless attempt at reimagining a story that has already concluded.

Sometime later, the team led by newly appointed Director of Criminal Investigation Odette Raine discovers the charred remains of eight more victims—Callum among ...

John Luther been thrown in prison while a horrific serial killer taunts him in the shadows, looking for another victim to kill. We’re also told of a woman who was severely burned, and we see the gruesome burn marks. A woman is zip-tied and knocked to the ground. We see one such person be stabbed, and we see a girl be choked repeatedly with a plastic bag. We hear the horrific screams of a 17-year-old boy as he is murdered. We see an artistic representation of a crucifixion victim. Luther threatens to “tattoo a man’s eye,” holding a needle extremely close to the man’s pupil before backing down. That fact, spurred on by a mocking message sent by the killer to Luther, is something that seems strange to him. When a man watches pornography in private, we see that he’s being recorded by someone and is marked as a potential target for their next blackmail victim. The boy is just one of many victims who’ve fallen into the hands of a serial killer who’s quickly gaining notoriety. Another victim is likely killed after being hit multiple times in the head with a hammer. When he arrives, he meets a gay man who tells him of how he had talked about pornographic fantasies with another man and planned a night of indulgence with him.

With major spoilers, we break down the climactic events, series throwbacks and future hints of the Luther movie, out now on Netflix.

Whoever it is, it’s safe to say that Luther is moving up in the world – and will no longer be limited to the streets of London. He spooks the viewers by revealing that their IP addresses are being tracked and that the police are on their way to the bunker, before taking out one of the henchmen with the hammer. [The Fallen Sun](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/luther-the-fallen-sun-review/), we discover that Luther had been investigating the disappearance of a young man who’d been abducted by David Robey during or just before the events of Series 5. With a first movie and a new government job under Luther’s belt, it very much seems like the ball is in Netflix’s court. “If I may, unofficially, you did a commendable job,” he says, as Luther replies, “So, now what?” – a nice little callback that references the opening/closing line of most of the show’s five series. The answer, in a word, is no. Before he does, Luther taunts Robey, brilliantly dubbing him a “sweaty anxious twat” in the way that only Elba can and telling him that his own shame has been brought to light. He had built a “Red Bunker” under the snowy wilds of Norway, hidden from the outside world, where he would broadcast live “shows” to high-paying subscribers on the dark web. While the photo of Luther standing over a dead hitman didn’t quite tell the full story (Cornelius actually pulled the trigger), it presumably did blow open the fact that he’d been aiding and abetting a known criminal – and seemed like the smoking gun that would finally send Luther down. Luther and DCI Odette Raine (Cynthia Erivo), who’s now heading up his former unit, track down Robey’s hidden house of horrors thanks to information from his long-suffering wife. Let’s take a look at where we find Luther by the end of A twisted tech genius with dodgy hair and an even dodgier fashion sense, Robey is luring his victims by hijacking their digital footprints and using their deepest, darkest secrets – or as he calls it, their “shame” – against them.