"Luther" Creator Says Season 3 Will Be The Last Before Big Screen Leap + If Luther Was Written As A Black Man

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• Mvielover | October 20, 2012 1:21 AMReply

  A bog screen movie would screw up the whole feel of Luther. Bringing it to that would make it an end game for the show; like firefly. making serenity sort of the end of that show.

• Linda | September 9, 2012 8:34 AMReply

  I watched season one and two in a day. I couldn't help myself. They were really good. Thank goodness for netflix or I would have missed this wonderful show. I am looking forward to season three.

• cordie | October 21, 2012 6:43 PM

  Linda, I did the same. It was like reading a book I could not put it down. I really enjoy being able to that with a couple of other series as well. We miss a lot of good programs here in the states andB.B.C America.has so many commercials.

• KK | September 3, 2012 2:13 PMReply

  I NEVER WANT SEASONS TO END!!!! I LOVE THIS SHOW!!!!

• EW | August 25, 2012 4:20 AMReply

  Countdown to season three... smashed and broken cars, like deranged christmas ornaments.....glimemering broken glass, shiny torn metal and fecks of paint like tinsel on snow covered streets....We look forward to christmas and ask Mr. Clause for one treasure..... Alice.

• michael burke | August 19, 2012 1:35 PMReply

  I really love this show it was well written and directed. I became addicted watching every episode and excited to see what was going to happen next. I would like to thank everyone for there hard work and dedication

• dom | July 29, 2012 7:50 PMReply

  I am happy to hear there will be a 3rd season. I feel sad that it will end completely after the 3rd. I just jumped on the bandwagon and I absolutely LOVE this show it is well written, acted and directed. After finishing both season 1 and 2 I long for more. I have never seen a show so intense and unpredictable as this. I understand how some programs get washed out over time, but I think Neil Cross should rethink ending so soon... Much respect to Neil Cross...and of course Idris Elba.

• www.arielletienne.com | May 22, 2012 3:15 AMReply

  I'm so happy to read this, since I "lost" Prison break (so amazing story!), I never found a great hero to follow again...since Michael Scofield...Now Luther is the very first tv show that make me impatient to watch each week.
  Yesterday evening, I saw the last episode of the season 2, each episode is so unconventional, so unexpected, so perfect that I always wonder what the writers will invent for Luther ... I love Idris Elba, he is the hero in quiet strength, a rock with a bubbling volcano below.
  Thank U Luther!

• Scottie Lowe | May 17, 2012 9:25 AMReply

  Oops, I meant we need ROLES where we are able to express our color outside the stereotypes.

• Taz | September 9, 2012 9:49 AM

  I disagree. It should be the actor to bring his/her flavor to a role. It is the writer, in trying to 'add color' that makes the role stereotypical.

• Scottie Lowe | May 17, 2012 9:23 AMReply

  I disagree with the comments that more Black actors need colorless roles. I think Black actors need colors where we are able to express our color outside of the stereotypes. I'm not in the movie or TV business but I am a writer and I know that most Black authors write stereotypical and degrading depictions of Black people because their lives are largely caricatures themselves. If you live a one-dimensional life, you can't write much more than that. I write about fully fleshed-out, multi-faceted, decidedly Black characters who have vastly different dialogue and experiences than white people, who are not at all "colorless" but who aren't ghetto and cliche' either. That's the problem. People, both Black and white, want Black actors to be colorless and we are not. We, people of African descent across the Diaspora, have our own unique story to tell, in our own verbiage, and we are being erased in the media or being portrayed as oh so predictable stereotypes.

• Predford Percy Price | June 8, 2012 3:09 PM

  I agree with the comments about black actors. "We" need to get over "our" obsession with race. More black actors would work if people created roles for human beings and let irrelevant traits like skin pigment fall where they might. The strength and power that Idris brings to Luther is a joy to watch. I couldn't care less about his race. Obviously you couldn't cast a white guy in the role of a Baltimore gang leader like Stringer Bell (another one of Elba's great roles), but race in such a story is a character itself. Not with Luther. Luther could easily have been white.
  
  If roles are not specifically written for black characters, yet black actors get cast, racism is overcome. If roles are written specifically for white or black actors, racist ideology is strengthened.

• cass | May 17, 2012 5:35 AMReply

  I'm happy... but why kill it at all? There so many other mediocre shows out there and this one is stellar. I was disappointed when season 2 only got 4 episodes. Those decisions are just silly...

• KiKiLarue | May 15, 2012 5:00 PMReply

  Luther is an excellent crime drama. A breath of fresh air and a break from the redundancy of what's currently airing. While I LOVE Idris Elba and follow his work, the spring cast of Luther is EXCELLENT. Collectively portraying believable emotions. Absolutely love the show and respect Neil Cross for his comments about his neutral character and having such an awesome actor portray the role of Luther.

• KiKiLarue | May 15, 2012 5:02 PM

  I meant the supporting cast. Sorry

• Jay Podolnick | April 27, 2012 11:58 PMReply

  I will wait in line over night for the first theater ticket sold! You have a blockbuster franchise ready to explode. Let's get a move on it. Ok?

• Jess | March 27, 2012 8:25 PMReply

  Great, but why only 4 eps?

• anon | March 27, 2012 11:50 AMReply

  I said before that luther was a racially nuetral character unlike in amercia white writers dont often write black characters because that would be hideous most of the black roles are written by BLACKS. One of the major problems for aa is that they dont get racially nuetral roles and only roles written specifically black -hence the sterotypes.

• Donella | March 24, 2012 3:19 PMReply

  Sounds like "Neil Cross" gets it. Idris is building a strong foundation for himself.

• FilmGuy | March 22, 2012 11:04 PMReply

  Luther is awesome and like many UK series, end sooner than American series would. Great response from Neil about not trying to write a black character. Many of my actor friends just want roles...period. I've seen countless black actors cast as roles that were written as white and they did great. Why? Because the roles generally portrayed your average educated American. And like Idris and many other thespians, they are well-educated.
  
  We're not that different at all people. The stereotypical "black" character is really just an exaggeration of one side of the black consciousness, a remnant of the pre-education and opportunity days. Plenty of folks know how to act educated and proper when they have to.

• Jai | March 22, 2012 10:07 PMReply

  I love Luther but I don't think it's ready for the big screen yet with only a total of 14 episodes(seasons 1-3) we need more episodes because a lot of people still don't know about Luther.

• John Smith | August 9, 2012 2:27 PM

  RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT! but Fred: The Movie was so tailer made for the big screen, did oh so well with its 0% rating from Rotten Tomatoes and an average rating of 2.5/10 after 13 reviews.
  
  If we have to put up with a movie adaptation of every piece of old crap on tv plastered all over our buses, bus stop signs and bill boards why cant we have something decent on tv made into a movie for a change like Luther????????????

• Nicole | March 22, 2012 10:04 PMReply

  I think I like Neil Cross.
  
  Also, don't forget, Idris is getting ready to shoot his Mandela "biopic". Surely that will elevate his profile even more.

• LUKAS | August 14, 2012 4:11 PM

  I have to say that "Luther" is the most original and unpredictable TV show I've ever seen so far.
  It's very intense, dark and simply having all things what very good TV series need to have to be "criminally" strong. Great respect for writer Neil Cross and of course Idris Elba. There's no way I could forget about the great cast, especially Ruth Wilson's role. I'd like to think that she's a pure evil in one hand and the other hand very nice and kind person, but the truth is we can't figure her out. Simply it's a great combination: John Luther - Alice Morgan or should I say Luther vs Morgan. I hope they should reconsider the idea of not continuing the show ( Please do not judge me about that commentary and for more important about the weakness of my English gramatics. I'm from another country than UK). Thanks