After hooking viewers with French shark film “Under Paris,” Netflix is lastly getting ready for another bite of the cherry as “Beneath Paris 2” has gone into manufacturing within the south of France, Selection can verify.
Unique solid members Bérénice Bejo and Nassim Lyes return alongside Guillaume Gouix, Phillippe Bas, Manon Bresch and Anne Marivin.
The sequel is ready three years after the occasions of “Beneath Paris,” when a triathlon within the French capital was a massacre after a bunch of mutated sharks not solely arrange camp within the River Seine however began reproducing. Makes an attempt to neutralize them resulted in a series response that ended up flooding all the metropolis.
“Three years after the Paris triathlon catastrophe, the middle of the Capital is submerged,” reads the logline for the sequel. “Sophia (Bejo) and Adil (Lyes) reunite for a high-risk mission: to trace Lilith, the unique predator, within the shark-infested Seine. There, they’ll uncover that the lethal wildlife hides a way more stunning actuality…”
Alexandre Aja on the set of “Beneath Paris 2” (Roger Do Minh)
“Piranha 3D” helmer Alexandre Aja takes the reigns from Xavier Gens, who wrote and directed “Beneath Paris,” though Gens stays on as co-writer (alongside Aja, Gregory Levasseur, Frédéric Garcia, William Laboury and Fanny Talmone) and affiliate producer, additionally with Aja. Aja and Levasseur are credited with adaptation whereas Vincent Roget (“Let Me Be”) is producing.
“I really like Paris, and I all the time wished to make a shark film, so it was an apparent sure when the chance got here to take the story even deeper,” Aja mentioned of sinking his enamel into the film.
Garnering greater than 102 million views since its 2024 launch, “Beneath Paris” is the preferred French movie in Netflix’s historical past and the second hottest non-English language movie on the platform. Its success was all of the extra stunning given it was initially turned down by a number of French studios and financiers.
Selection‘s reviewer in contrast it favorably to the daddy of shark films, “Jaws,” saying: “Netflix’s new thriller swims somewhat than sinks because it provides life to a style that’s been cold for much too lengthy.”
