Four years after we last saw DCI John Luther on our screens, Idris Elba returns to crack the case as the crime-fighting, suave detective.
The 50-year-old actor is shown in character in a first look trailer for the next movie spin-off, which will be available on Netflix, emerging out from the shadows as he hints at the drama that will ensue.
In the trailer for Luther: The Fallen Sun, the lead actor stares squarely at the camera while dressed in a shirt, jacket, and red tie.
As a voice says ominously,’something’s coming,’ he doesn’t take his gaze away from the audience.
Another voice asks, ‘You see me now?’ as the hot-headed protagonist steps back into the darkness.
While first look photographs for Luther have been revealed, this is the first look at the returning character in action as he strives to right certain wrongs from his past.
Ahead of the film’s release in cinemas in February and on Netflix in March, the streaming platform revealed that in the new continuation of the tale, a ‘gruesome serial killer is terrorising London’.
However, Luther, who’s been ‘disgraced’, is currently sitting behind bars… but not for long.
‘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,’ the company states.
Several new characters will be introduced in the film, as well as Dermot Crowley, who will reprise his role as Martin Schenk.
Meanwhile, Andy Serkis, star of Widows and Andor, joins the cast as a new character.
Following the publication of the new teaser, several fans voiced their delight at Luther’s return, with one tweeting, ‘Yeeeesss finally Luther come back.’
‘My excitement levels are high,’ another said, while someone else chimed in to add: ‘If you’re not on the Luther wagon, hop on.’
Speaking about the Luther film years after the series aired on BBC One for the last time, Idris stated last September that he and the other individuals who worked on it are’really proud’ of it.
‘The world of Luther as a television show and film is similar, but the film has [huge] scale,’ he said.
‘We’re opening the doors and widening it so anything’s possible when you can do that.’
Luther: The Fallen Sun will be available in select cinemas from February 24 and on Netflix from March 10.