Neil Cross’s award-winning British cop drama Luther is going to be remade for US audiences.
Fox is reimagining the series, which starred Idris Elba as the obsessive police detective John Luther.
Elba (executive producer) and Cross (writer/executive producer) are both on board for the project, which has reportedly received a seven-figure sum for its pilot.
The project will be overseen by BBC Worldwide Productions alongside 20th Century Fox Television and Chernin Entertainment.
Fox will attempt to transfer the success of the original UK series – it won eight Emmy nominations, while Elba won a Golden Globe in 2011 – to the US.
However, other adaptations of British dramas, namely Broadchurch, which Fox renamed Gracepoint, have failed to take off.
Cross has recently headed up NBC’s pirate drama Crossbones, which he created and executive produced, while he has also spoken of possibly making a film prequel of Luther.
“I’ve written the script and we hope to get the film made next year,” he said at the Edinburgh Television festival. “It will follow his career in the earlier days, when he is still married to Zoe, and the final scene in the film is the first of the initial TV series.”
Luther is also being adapted for Russian audiences. Renamed Klim, it will air next year and run for eight episodes.
Meanwhile, Fox is also remaking Austrian comedy Braunschlag, about a struggling small town and its mayor.
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