One ofGerard Butler’s best action franchises,theHas Fallensaga, is getting a surprising small screen spinoff, and we now have a new look and more details about the project. TitledParis Has Fallen, the series comes courtesy of the French platform Canal+, and will follow a new character as he, much like Butler’s Mike Banning before him, finds himself up against a terrorist force while protecting a high-profile politician. Cue all manner of gunfire, explosions, and treachery.
Produced by Studiocanal production company Urban Myth Films (War of the Worlds), Studiocanal and Millennium and Butler’s G-Base, a new poster has now been unveiled, which offers a new look at lead star Tewfik Jallab (Spiral, Dark Hearts) defending a Paris in turmoil. Check it out below:
Alongside Jallab, who replacedBabylon A.D.andVisionsstar Mathieu Kassovitz due to those dreaded “creative differences,”Paris Has Fallenalso starsThe Umbrella Academy’sRitu Aryaas an MI5 operative who must work alongside Jallab’s French security agent. It has also been widely reported that Gerard Butler will make a cameo appearance in the serial spinoff as Mike Banning. However, it is currently unknown if this is still the case as the show underwent some major changes throughout production.
You can check out the official synopsis forParis Has Fallenbelow.
“ZARA KHAN, a bold and daring female MI5 officer, must team up the French security agent VINCENT DUBOIS to uncover the mysterious plot behind a series of ruthless attacks in Paris. Something doesn¿t quite add up and, the further they dig, the wider the web of political and moral corruption becomes. PARIS HAS FALLEN will combine high-octane action with a gripping thriller storyline, set against a complex political landscape.”
Fans React to Paris Has Fallen, Want More From Gerard Butler’s Action Hero
While the studio no doubt expected that a new chapter in theHas Fallenfranchise would have fans excited for more action, many have since taken to social media to wonder why they are attempting to expand the series beyond Gerard Butler’sold-school action hero.
Thankfully, a new installmentled by Butler is currently in development. TitledNight Has Fallen, the follow-up will bring back Butler as Secret Service Agent Mike Banning for another explosive adventure. Plot details remain under wraps, but it has been revealed that director Ric Roman Waugh and screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen will return alongside Butler.
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Unfortunately, it might be a while. Butler recently teased a “fun” idea for the sequel but hinted that it could be some time before audiences sit down in a theater to once again watch Banning take out bad guys and save the world.
“We have a script for that, but I haven’t been working on it at the moment. We have a really fun idea, it just needs to be to be developed. But it’s been fun recently, making action. I will say — I want to play more the Tom Hanks of action movies. Let me take a break from the Mike Banning, where it’s literally seven or eight full-on fight sequences in every movie, fistfights. And actually claiming the characters that are real, who have to pull something extraordinary out of themselves that an audience can really identify with because that’s what we need right now.”
Directed by Oded Ruskin and Hans Herbots, and starring Tewfik Jallab, Ritu Arya, Sean Harris, Emmanuelle Bercot, Ana Ularu, Camilla Rutherford, Jérémie Covillault, and Karl Collins,Paris Has Fallenis set for a release next week.
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