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A first-look image from the much-anticipated Luther movie<\/a> shows Idris Elba\u2019s detective trekking across a snowy landscape, in a major departure from the series so far.<\/span><\/p>\n Over the course of five seasons of the hit BBC drama, which aired between 2010 and 2019, troubled DCI John Luther solved some seriously brutal crimes in his London stomping ground.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The film will see him placed in a brand new location for the first time, and according to Elba, the scope of the new project gave the show\u2019s creator Neil Cross the \u201ctime and scale\u201d to push the boundaries of \u201cthe Luther experience\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe really peel the onion back here because we had the time and scale to do that,\u201d the actor told Empire<\/a>, which revealed the first look in its new issue. \u201cIt also gives Neil [Cross] a lot more, you know, Luther-land to play with, in terms of where Luther can go, how he goes, what the landscape is.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n EXCLUSIVE \ud83d\udea8