Luther: The Fallen Sun

Out now on Netflix, Idris Elba is joined by new additions Andy Serkis, Cynthia Erivo and more in The Fallen Sun.

Li also appeared in Ken Loach’s acclaimed 2016 film I, Daniel Blake and provides the voice of Yong Bao on multiple versions of Thomas the Tank Engine. Anya is the teenage daughter of Cynthia Erivo’s DCI (see above) who gets into a perilous situation in The Fallen Sun. [Andy Serkis](https://www.denofgeek.com/andy-serkis/), whom you obviously know as the performer behind The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films’ Gollum, behind the titular character in Peter Jackson’s King Kong, and behind evolved chimpanzee Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes. He’s played by Vincent Regan, a familiar face in crime drama recently seen in The Bay, Traces, Before We Die, Snatch, and Undercover as well as historical dramas She’s played by Hattie Morahan, who memorably played Jane, the weepy neighbour of the Brockman family in BBC comedy Outnumbered, but more recently was seen as Lady Tewkesbury in Netflix’s 9 and Agathe in Disney’s 2017 Beauty and the Beast. [Harlots](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/harlots-witty-history-fiction/). She’s played by Oscar-nominee Cynthia Erivo, a screen and stage star with an incredible singing voice. [The Fuck-It Bucket](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/new-british-tv-series-for-2023-bbc-itv-channel-4-sky-netflix-prime-video-britbox/). DCI Odette Raine is the detective who’s been heading up Luther’s old unit during his time inside. She’s not listed among the cast this time, but there’s no saying that wily brainbox won’t find a way to return in any future Luther movie sequels. Going toe-to-toe with Idris Elba’s John will be Andy Serkis as surveillance tech billionaire David Robey, possibly the detective’s darkest foe yet.

Luther: The Fallen Sun is a fitting continuation to Luther, with an action-filled ending that leaves the door open for Luther to return.

Government officials arrive to see him, and the Luther: The Fallen Sun ending concludes with Luther getting into a car with the officials as a free man. Robey and Georgette are married, and when Georgette was going to leave Robey and free herself from his crimes, he attempted to kill her in a house fire, akin to how he got rid of his victims at the start of the movie. One of the officials congratulates Luther on “a job well done,” opening a car door to beckon Luther to go with, which Luther ultimately does. Whether Luther does get a new job after the end of Even though Raine doesn’t want to work with Luther and still doesn’t like him, he is the lesser of two evils, and working with Luther gives Raine the best chance of getting Anya back alive before the Here is the ending of Luther: The Fallen Sun explained in detail. Luther: The Fallen Sun serves as a follow-up to the BBC series, [Luther](https://screenrant.com/tag/luther/), which follows DCI John Luther, who will go to any length necessary to capture a criminal. While working with Luther is in Raine’s best interests, it’s not immediately obvious why she changes her mind, as she has been vehemently opposed to Luther’s involvement in this case throughout the movie. [Luther (played by Idris Elba)](https://screenrant.com/luther-movie-idris-elba-james-bond-comparison-response/) eventually uses Robey’s plan against him to escape, and they end up fighting in the snowscape, leading to a car crash that allows for Robey’s capture. [Luther: The Fallen Sun](https://screenrant.com/tag/luther-the-fallen-sun/) is a fitting continuation to the original BBC series, and its action-packed ending is the perfect note to potentially leave the character on. The Luther: The Fallen Sun ending is jam-packed with action leading up to the capture of David Robey, the main villain of the film. As a condition of ensuring Anya’s safe return, Robey asks Raine to “deal with Luther” for him.

This is everything you need to know about what happens at the end of Luther: The Fallen Sun on Netflix, including if Luther survives.

Robey attempts to get Raine and Luther to torture each other, however Luther manages to get inside Robey's head, reminding him of his anxieties, particularly his teeth grinding. Once Luther is dressed, the pair make their way out of the house and are greeted by a man in a suit, civil servant Tim Cranfield (Guy Williams). And will Luther return to prison? He wakes up at a stately home, confused and finds Schenk who tells him he has been taken to a government safe house. They are brought to Robey in his Red Room, which is broadcasting live over the internet. Robey begins to taunt Luther in jail by sending him a radio with a recording of Callum's cries. He also shouts at the viewers watching at home, telling them they are being traced by the police, and very quickly the Red Room begins losing viewers. Luther goes to visit Callum's mum Corinne (Hattie Morahan) who reveals she has met someone new called 'Tommy' who said he lost his wife in terrible circumstances. Luther chases Robey through the London underground, but Robey evades capture. It's revealed he has a massive operation working underneath him, with his team using video surveillance footage in order to recruit more victims. Luther ends up in jail, unable to do anything to help find Callum. The film brings back some of our favourite characters such as DSU Martin Schenk (Dermot Crowley) and introduces us to some new ones including Cynthia Erivo as DCI Odette Raine.

Is Alice in the Netflix Luther movie? Find out if Ruth Wilson is in Luther: The Fallen Sun.

So even though you won’t see Alice in Luther: The Fallen Sun, it’s possible that John Luther and Alice Morgan may, someday, meet again. The only familiar face in the movie, other than Luther himself, is Martin Schenk, the former boss and friend of Luther played by Dermot Crowley. When asked if Ruth Wilson might someday appear in the Luther universe again, Cross said. After all, Alice has already returned from the dead once, when she was proclaimed dead in Season 4, only to show up, alive and well, in the Season 5 premiere. [Luther: The Fallen Sun](https://decider.com/movie/luther-the-fallen-sun/), which began streaming on Netflix today, is a continuation of the award-winning BBC crime drama that ran for five seasons, from 2010 to 2019. [Luther ](https://decider.com/show/luther/)is back.

Four years after the final episode of the Luther TV series, Idris Elba & company are back for another high-profile case. A co-production between Netflix & BBC, ...

He is the movie as much as he is the show. As the film progresses towards its frozen backdrop conclusion, it becomes more and more evident that the lack of connection & chemistry between Luther & Serkis holds the film back and the lesser stakes personally for Luther make the plot thinner than its icy setting. However, with a lack of personal connection & stakes for Luther and an underwhelming performance from Serkis, the story can only take us so far. Scenes like the discovery of the hanging bodies at the mansion and the suicides at Piccadilly Circus make the film more macabre than most serialized detective shows and amps up the cinematic quality for a show trying to level up. A co-production between Netflix & BBC, Luther: The Fallen Sun is the long-awaited execution of an idea for a standalone Luther movie that started with initial scripts back in 2013. While the main plot and new killer don’t have any connection to the TV series, this film does rely on prior knowledge to truly understand and enjoy the character of Luther.

Four years after the show's series finale aired on BBC, "Luther" is finally back on the screen in a new film made for Netflix. "Luther: The Fallen Sun" ...

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'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.

The iconic trench coat flutters in the wind as Detective Chief Inspector John Luther stands tall on a terrace overlooking London's cityscape.

Robey tackled Luther and tried to escape, but by the time he got to the surface, he was trapped underneath the ice sheet. Mark and Raine reminded Luther that it was time for him to surrender himself to the law, and Luther obeyed their order. He activated the burn mode in the room and tried to hold the mother and daughter back. The car drowned in the lake with Robey and Luther in it. Five of his victims had befriended a man in his 40s, and the man had always discussed with them how his wife had burned to death in a house fire in Eccleston Square. Derek handed over a phone that he used to contact the person, and Luther had a day to figure out his location. The police aimed to arrest Luther and Robey, but the sudden series of suicides in the Square led to mayhem. Derek realized that he had been catfished and that the man he was with was sent by someone else. Luther learned that Derek was sent the transmitter by courier and was asked to run it for twenty-four hours. He offers Luther an important clue to solving the puzzle; he mentions that he met Luther at a bus stop and offered him a mint, which he gladly accepted. After listening to the killer’s taunt and watching Corinne breakdown in front of him, Luther was more determined than ever to find a way to get hold of the madman. The killer recorded the audio with Luther in mind and taunts him for his inability to solve the crime.

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.

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.

Acclaimed Idris Elba-fronted BBC series Luther treks on with feature film Luther: The Fallen Sun (now on Netflix), a standalone saga that more closely resembles ...

Of course, Luther just has to get this guy, so he stages a prison riot that covers his escape from the pokey – although it’s not that easy, because he has to push and shove and punch and kick and headbutt his way out of a building full of guys who want to boil his bones in a broth, but he succeeds with hardly a scratch. Performance Worth Watching: Erivo and Elba get one very brief scene in which the unstoppable tank-division plot pauses for a beat or two and allows them to reveal tiny scraps of vulnerable character stuff. At least The Fallen Sun – complete nonsense title, by the way – looks good, with crisp editing, gloomy and artful cinematography and skillfully conceived and executed action set pieces (the prison break sequence stands out). The bad guy: David Robey (Serkis), a man with more money than sanity by a vast margin; he gets his kicks by blackmailing his victims with proof of all the no-nos they’ve indulged on the internet, then tortures and murders them. The evil deed: Our gent stops at what appears to be an accident and the man on the phone, notably no longer on the phone, attacks and kidnaps him. The victim: A poor teenage gent, lured out by a man on the phone threatening to expose his secrets.