After Luther’s series finale, fans were left wondering about DCI Luther’s fate after his last scene with Alice in 2019. This year Netflix’s new film, Luther: The Fallen Sun, reveals a continued story for our favorite detective and we got to speak with Cynthia Erivo as she joined the cast for the Netflix film as DCI Odette Raine.
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In Luther: The Fallen Sun — an epic continuation of the award-winning television saga reimagined for film — a gruesome serial killer is terrorizing London while brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther (Idris Elba) sits behind bars. 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 film also stars Cynthia Erivo, Andy Serkis and Dermot Crowley, who returns as Martin Schenk.
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In the film, Cynthia Erivo’s character, DCI Odette Raine takes over Luther’s old job and becomes an amazing foil character to his throughout. In the interview, Cynthia was also able to talk about the work she put in to her character and credited the screenwriter, Neil Cross, with the talent of having included everything in the script for her to use to make her character stand out.
The film comes out March 10th on Netflix and select theaters.