Luther: The Fallen Sun ‍🌞 Discussion & Review Podcast | Neil Cross TV

Luther moves into film in The Fallen Sun. What does that format bring to the series? How does the paratext of James Bond Idris Elba fancasting play into the actual film? How does the film shift our understanding of the show, and the ‘Luther Land’ setting? How does making a standalone-ish film after five serialised TV seasons work? We delve into these questions, along with ‘red rooms’, moral conundrums, character continuity, filmic setpieces, questions of recasting, Idris Elba’s 2015 Luther short film/music video, and several interviews with Idris Elba, writer Neil Cross, director Jamie Payne, & more! (00:00:00) Form & format (00:03:56) Meaning of the title (00:13:50) Retcons/insertions into the show (00:24:26) Why a movie? (00:38:17) ‘I’m still a copper’ + moral conundrums (00:48:12) James Bond, fancasting, intertextuality (01:05:24) Prison break setpiece + continuity & structure (01:15:51) Luther over London (01:19:48) Piccadilly Circus + Robey unveiling (01:48:37) Story about Luther + Luther themes (02:01:27) Potential second film + this film’s ending (02:10:28) The ending (02:14:31) Luther Land (02:32:42) Alice + the coat (02:37:07) Odette, Catherine, Erin (02:47:07) Red Room (03:00:05) Schenk, Alice, Robey, tattooist (03:07:01) Recasting + Murdah Loves John short film (music video) (03:28:57) Neil Cross Independent interview (violence, gender, dreams) (03:40:36) Neil Cross Digital Trends interview (character development) (03:44:50) Neil Cross Radio Times interviews (Bond, Luther Land, Alice spinoff) (03:54:40) Neil Cross GQ interview (earlier ideas, anti-Alice) (03:59:56) Cars, art, helicopters, music (04:11:14) Closure…

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