Idris Elba is............LUTHER!

[Groo The Perverted]

UPDATE: MAY 6th 2011: SEASON 2 "ANNOUNCE" Trailer Has Been Released. See bottom of this post.

The Wire actor Idris Elba is to star in a new BBC1 crime drama, Luther, about a detective who is "simmering with anger and rage".

London-born Elba, who played the drug dealer Stringer Bell in the acclaimed Baltimore crime drama, will play the title role of John Luther in the new six-part BBC1 drama.

The series will take the crime genre and turn it on its head, according to the BBC, with viewers knowing the identity of the murderer from the start of each episode in a bid to focus the drama on the "psychic duel between hunter and quarry, who sometimes have more in common than either would like to think".

Elba said: "He's a challenging and exciting character because he's so complex. While he's capable of great kindness and loyalty, sometimes he steps over the edge of madness – simmering with anger and rage."

Elba previously complained in a Guardian interview in May about the lack of roles on British TV for black actors, saying he had to go to Hollywood to get his break. "Unlike here, in the US there are lead roles for black actors … I realised that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the US," he said.

The drama is being written by the suspense novelist Neil Cross, who was the lead writer on Spooks for the last two series, and it will be made in-house by the BBC. Filming begins this autumn for transmission next year.

"It's an intense psychological thriller which examines not only human depravity but the complex nature of love … and how it's often this – our finest attribute – that leads us into darkness," said Cross.

Season 2 ANNOUNCE Trailer:

YouTube - Luther - New Series 2011 Trailer - BBC One

[WyldeMan45]

That sounds awesome!!! I really hated seeing Idris used so horribly on the Office. He is far too talented for the way the show used him, so it'll be great to see him get back to his crime roots.

[Groo The Perverted]

Originally Posted by WyldeMan45

That sounds awesome!!! I really hated seeing Idris used so horribly on the Office. He is far too talented for the way the show used him, so it'll be great to see him get back to his crime roots.

Check out your new favorite website that you can't get to work. lol

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by Groo The Perverted

Check out your new favorite website that you can't get to work. lol

I would if I could, lol......

[fatediesel]

Elba will always be Stringer Bell to me. This new show sounds decent, but I don't think I'd be able to watch a show with British accents. Half the time I can't understand what the people are saying, and I always get annoyed.

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by fatediesel

Elba will always be Stringer Bell to me. This new show sounds decent, but I don't think I'd be able to watch a show with British accents. Half the time I can't understand what the people are saying, and I always get annoyed.

I work with a Brit and it took me two solid weeks of talking with him all day to finally stop noticing the accent. Than you pretty much understand everything he's saying, except when he thought it'd be funny to spend a full day speaking only in rhyming cockney slang.......


I didn't realize the show had already been airing for 5 weeks, so the damned finale is next week, lol. I thought this was something coming in the Fall.

[Groo The Perverted]

Originally Posted by fatediesel

Elba will always be Stringer Bell to me. This new show sounds decent, but I don't think I'd be able to watch a show with British accents. Half the time I can't understand what the people are saying, and I always get annoyed.

I'll admit that when I first started watching the show "Spooks" it was difficult because the DVDS I had didn't have subtitles, which I tend to put on no matter whether it's an American movie or foreign.

And so it was frustrating because I couldn't quite make out what they were saying.

Now it's no problem at all. Every now and then they may speak quickly and I lose something, but mostly it's not a big deal.

You just have to get used to it.

[bootsy]

Originally Posted by fatediesel

Elba will always be Stringer Bell to me. This new show sounds decent, but I don't think I'd be able to watch a show with British accents. Half the time I can't understand what the people are saying, and I always get annoyed.

To me too.

[bootsy]

Originally Posted by WyldeMan45

That sounds awesome!!! I really hated seeing Idris used so horribly on the Office. He is far too talented for the way the show used him, so it'll be great to see him get back to his crime roots.

Yeah me too.

[SlaughterX]

Lol, I dunno why but I thought at first this would be a series about the singer Luther Vandross... :P

[antwonaj]

Only watched 3 episodes of this and then stopped watching it.

Idris Elba is a great actor but even his acting couldn't save this.

[McCrutchy]

Series 3 has begun shooting today.

[scott87]

Originally Posted by McCrutchy

Series 3 has begun shooting today.

excellent cant wait to watch the new series, been looking forward to this for ages

[rashad30]

Movie Move For Luther As Series 3 To Be The Last For TV
http://insidemediatrack.com/2012/03/...e-last-for-tv/

Season 3 Of "Luther" Will Intro His Moriarty, As Luther Reaches Retirement
http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowand...4-123138165f92

'Luther' Spin-Off Starring Ruth Wilson As Alice Morgan In The Works
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012...n_1759840.html

Luther - Season 3 - Casting News - Sienna Guillory joins cast
Posted by DarkUFO at Monday, November 26, 2012



Resident Evil actress Sienna Guillory has joined the third season of BBC America’s Luther as a love interest for Idris Elba’s titular detective, Deadline reports.

Guillory will play an employee of a vintage clothing shop who meets Luther by chance.

Season 3, which will consist of four one-hour episodes, finds Luther investigating two conflicting crimes while dodging a ruthless ex-cop determined to bring him down.

http://www.spoilertv.com/2012/11/lut...ws-sienna.html