Netflix has released their latest streaming data and Luther: The Fallen Sun remained a big hit. Four years after the last batch of episodes for the series was released, Idris Elbareturns to the fan-favorite role and people clearly can't get enough. Last week, the premiere of the film, saw Luther: The Fallen Sun streamed over 65.9 million hours. This past week, the first full week it was available, the movie saw a slight increase in viewership and was watched over 69.54 million hours. Not only did all this manage to keep Luther: The Fallen Sun as the #1 movie on Netflix, the second highest movie on the platform has only 14 million hours streamed.
When all is said and done it seems unlikely that Luther: The Fallen Sun will make Netflix's All-Time Top 10 movies. That said, it will likely still be seen as a success for Netflix in the long run. Not only did the movie revive the series in a big way, but it was a co-production between BBC Film, Chernin Entertainment, and Netflix, meaning the costs for production were divided.
Previously speaking with ComicBook.com at the Luther: The Fallen Sun premiere, Elba spoke about the movie's scope, teasing that more is on the way. "The luxury starts with just having more space to tell a bigger story without breaking it up into episodics. Now we have this massive landscape [and] a bit of a bigger budget. We have more time to get under it. I've always dreamed about what we could do with Luther as a film, outside of 'Luther Land' in London, where can we take it? Now we have the opportunity. This film, I'm really hoping it's the first of many."
