Idris Elba premiered the first of what he hopes will be a sequence of “Luther” movies on Wednesday, taking his hit British tv drama to a new audience.

In “Luther: The Fallen Sun”, a Netflix film, Elba reprises his position as the incredible however bothered and impulsive Detective Chief Inspector John Luther, the personality he played in the award-winning BBC collection “Luther” between 2010 and 2019.

Continuing from the show, the film starts offevolved with Luther working on a new case of a lacking person, when he is despatched to prison over his previous tactics.

In prison, he is taunted through a serial killer linked to the case. Haunted with the aid of his failure to seize the man, Luther breaks out of prison to discover him.

“It used to be usually a dream… We began the show… one season, two seasons, oh they like it, three seasons and then that’s when it began to percolate, that you recognize what, we can take this to a film,” Elba advised Reuters at the film’s international premiere in London.

Asked if this ought to be the begin of a collection of “Luther” films, Elba said: “Yes… let’s put it out there. I’d like to see it as a collection of motion pictures for sure.”

Actor Andy Serkis performs the killer taunting Luther.

“I in reality without a doubt did no longer desire to play this persona when I first examine it due to the fact I simply idea I’ve performed a wide variety of darkish characters, this is proper down the cease there,” Serkis said.

“And then I took a step back… section of the project of being an actor is making an attempt to provide a personality like this up to an target audience and say: okay, without a doubt think about the debate about what this simply means. And… he represents our folly really, our wish to provide so a lot energy to the internet, to technology.”

Series creator and creator Neil Cross stated he had to strike a cautious stability for followers of the exhibit and new ones.

“The largest trick used to be how to make one single stand-alone film that each revered and entertained each audiences equally,” he said. “That took some work and some thought.”