Luther Creator and writer Neil Cross spoke about the detective show and the differences between the films.
“He’s going to jail for a whole bunch of stuff he’s done. But Robey is still the mechanism behind which a lot of these things get released,” he said. Radio Times.
“There’s a great gag we gave Patrick Malahide about ‘having a picture in the Cloud, whatever.’ So we can assume that Robey drew this photograph of a corpse, right? So continuity and tradition, so to speak, are still entirely logical and dramatically consistent,” the writer added.
The 54-year-old continued, “But the needle that we had to thread, and it’s a unique needle, is that we had two audiences to speak to. Audience number one is the fans who know Luther and what he did and why. But there’s a second audience, which is people who come into the world entirely ignorant. And we had to construct the story in such a way that it was also satisfying for both audiences.