One day after the announcement FOX was developing an American adaptation of Luther, star Idris Elba and writer/creator Neil Cross will also be back for another round of the original Luther. The two-part hourlong miniseries will air sometime late 2015, revived by a partnership with BBC America and BBC Drama Production. “Luther is coming back where …
Black British Batman is hopping the pond. Fox has ordered a pilot of Luther to be written by Neil Cross, the original series’ creator. John Luther himself, Idris Elba, will serve as executive producer. Luther ran for three seasons on BBC, a Sherlock-like murder detective who befriends a psychopath named Alice (Ruth Wilson) while capturing …
No Good Deed is directed by Sam Miller of BBC’s Luther, and he knows how to take typical archetypes and work them around his leading man. Memorable villains like Hannibal Lector and Patrick Bateman are all too common for white actors, but, with the exception of Denzel Washington, black actors rarely get those parts. Actors of Elba’s caliber should at least get the chance to play a quality scoundrel.
At the Edinburgh TV Festival, Neil Cross, the writer and creator of the popular BBC crime drama Luther, said that he is working on a screenplay for a film prequel to Luther. Idris Elba would return along with Warren Brown, Indira Varma, and Steve Mackintosh and the film would focus on Luther’s relationship with his wife Zoe, ending …
I admit my initial interest in Luther was spawned by my slightly obsessive love of Idris Elba, a totally wonderful and sometimes underrated actor who always manages to surprise me (he was the only good thing in Prometheus, and he’s great in RocknRolla). But man is Luther something to see.