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It’s been four years since audiences last saw Idris Elba’s DCI John Luther. But the veteran British detective is finally back with Luther: The Fallen Sun, a new Netflix original film. And this time he’s on the trail of his most diabolical quarry yet: David Robey (Andy Serkis), a wealthy maniac operating a twisted “red room” that streams horrific violence around the globe. “He's trying to find a community on the dark web to exist within,” Serkis tells Tudum of his mad-man alter ego. “He has a sense of theater in the way that he operates and he's trying to draw an audience, actually. A lot of that is born out of this terrible loneliness and isolation.” 

Of course, when Luther and his colleague DCI Raine (Cynthia Erivo) track down Robey in snowy Estonia, the psychopath’s sadistic streaming days are numbered. We caught up with the cast and crew of the film and dove headfirst into the icy depths of Luther’s finale — and also aim to find out whether there might be more Luther cases lurking around the corner. 

Luther and Raine enter Robey’s red room at a disadvantage: The killer has abducted Raine’s daughter Anya (Lauryn Ajufo) and is holding her captive. Soon enough, he has the pair of police officers in his grasp as well, and forces them to hurt one another — or he’ll suffocate Anya.

Anya (Lauryn Ajufo) investigates a strange noise.

“I think a number of things are going through her mind,” Erivo tells Tudum of her character. “How am I going to escape this without also committing a murder? How can I do this to this person who’s here to help me?” All of those thoughts go out the window in the face of the threat to her daughter’s life. Even when Robey turns the tables on Raine, she’s resolute. “If that’s how we’re going to get my daughter out [of] here, I don’t care,” Erivo says. “Cripple me, fine. Knock these kneecaps off. I think her first thought is, ‘I need to get my daughter out.’ I think that’s the most important to her.”

Fortunately, Luther has an ace up the sleeve of his signature tweed overcoat: the information he received from Robey’s horrifically scarred wife Georgia. As he reveals Robey’s name and his insecurities on the live stream, the killer makes a desperate escape, with Luther in pursuit. Raine and Anya are left behind to escape Robey’s incineration trap. And at the end of their chase, Luther and Robey both wind up plunging beneath the surface of an icy lake, where Robey drowns. Luther, meanwhile, is picked up by his old friend Schenk (Dermot Crowley), and brought to a mysterious new location. 

John Luther (Idris Elba) in a very different landscape.

What happens next? The creative team is tight-lipped in some areas, but not in others. One thing is certain, though — when the film begins, Luther may have been in prison, but after all this, he isn’t going back. While his dark secrets are all out in the open thanks to Robey, another job opportunity may have opened its gleaming car door to him. Who exactly is offering him that job? Could it be… MI6? 

“Now, I know who's in that car and I know where that car's going as far as Neil Cross's story is concerned,” The Fallen Sun director Jamie Payne hints. “And I honestly think the potential of stories to come now, now we're in this new space, is quite extraordinarily exciting.”

“A lot of people talk about this James Bond character and me, and that’s not it,” Elba says, deflecting speculation. “This is it for me. And there’s so much potential to see it rival that type of character or that type of scale of film.” In other words: “Yeah, I think I will play him again.”

A pensive Luther.

And like his fans, Elba has some hopes for the character he’s become synonymous with. “He’s got a lot about his past that we don’t ever examine,” the actor says. “And I think [given] the scale of this type of film, you can examine that. So it’d be great to get some answers from John as to what’s eating him, what’s driving him. I’d love to see John fall in love one day. I just want to see him happy at some point.”

For Luther’s own sadistic mastermind Cross, it may not be so simple. But one way or another, something’s brewing. “Listen! Can you hear that sound?” he asks. “That distant, staccato clickety-clack? That’s the sound of typing.” 

You can stream Luther: The Fallen Sun on Netflix on March 10.

The Cast of Luther: The Fallen Sun Break Down the Piccadilly Circus SequenceThe production filmed at the iconic location for 3 nights.