Netflix has announced this morning that Under Paris 2, the sequel to their French shark attack movie from back in 2024, will be swimming onto the streaming service in 2027.
Alexandre Aja (High Tension, The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha 3D, Crawl) will return to the aquatic horror arena to direct Under Paris 2, which has now entered production.
“I love Paris, and I always wanted to make a shark movie, so it was an obvious yes when the opportunity came to take the story even deeper,” Alexandre Aja said in a statement.
Xavier Gens directed the first Under Paris, which broke records as the streamer’s first non-English language film on Netflix with more than 102.3 million views. The shark attack horror movie’s post-apocalyptic ending offered an intriguing hook for continuation.
Variety reports that Bérénice Bejo and Nassim Lyes will both reprise their roles from the first movie. Guillaume Gouix, Phillippe Bas, Manon Bresch and Anne Marivin also star.
Set in Summer 2024, Under Paris unfolds in Paris, which is hosting the World Triathlon Championships on the Seine for the first time. Sophia, a brilliant scientist, learns from Mika, a young environmental activist, that a large shark is swimming deep in the river.
To avoid a bloodbath at the heart of the city, they have no choice but to join forces with Adil, the Seine river police commander. Can they save the day before being eaten alive?
In Under Paris 2, “Three years after the Paris triathlon disaster, the center of the Capital is submerged. Sophia (Bejo) and Adil (Lyes) reunite for a high-risk mission: to track Lilith, the original predator, in the shark-infested Seine. There, they will discover that the deadly wildlife hides a much more surprising reality.”
The credited writers for Netflix sequel Under Paris 2 are Alexandre Aja, Xavier Gens, Gregory Levasseur, Frédéric Garcia, William Laboury, and Fanny Talmone.
