Emmy nominee Jamie Payne ("The Alienist") directs the feature from a script by series creator and writer, Neil Cross. One thing we do know for sure is that the scenes are set to be bigger and better than ever before. "Having delivered every episode of Luther on budgets which are comically small, [we've been able] to have a wider canvas and a bigger budget to tell the kind of stories that we've always wanted to be able to tell," Cross told the Radio Times in September 2021. "And we've really been given the opportunity – while staying entirely true."