Netflix’s Large Shark Film That Rivaled Jason Statham’s ‘The Meg’ Will get a Main Sequel Replace

Large sharks aren’t leaving our screens anytime quickly. Again in 2024, Netflix took its personal stab on the sharksploitation style with Beneath Parisa French horror thriller that noticed Paris beset by a mutated variant of the predator large enough to rival The Me lurking inside the Seine River as the town ready to carry the World Triathlon Championships. Regardless of debuting to combined opinions, it exploded on the platform, changing into its second-most-watched non-English movie everbehind solely Troll. All of the success, unsurprisingly, earned Xavier Gens‘ movie a sequeland now, almost two years later, a brand new report has confirmed who will proceed the shark-infested carnage.

One other outstanding French director, Alexandre Ajais ready to take the reins in Gens’ place for Beneath Paris 2. Right now, it is unknown why Gens stepped away, however his alternative is a robust match nonetheless, having turn out to be a identified commodity on the subject of water-based creature options, together with the campy Piranha 3D and the crocodile catastrophe flick Crawl. He additionally helmed the widely-praised and far darker 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes and, most not too long ago, took on the under-the-radar Halle Berry supernatural thriller By no means Let Go for Lionsgate. Netflix has but to announce who’s writing the script or if Gens shall be again in every other capability for the follow-up. When the sequel was first introduced, he was stated to be growing with hopes of filming starting within the fall of 2025.

Plot particulars for the Beneath Paris sequel have but to be shared, however it’s anticipated to carry again star Bérénice Bejo to reprise her function as marine biologist Sophia Assalas. Producer Vincent asks can also be again within the fold. The primary movie adopted Sophia as she raced to avoid wasting Paris from a sure massacre courtesy of the enormous shark named Lilith within the Seine. Within the course of, she needed to face her previous and reckon with the violent demise of her husband and colleague on the jaws of stated shark. The result’s an exhilarating Jaws-like story that goes off the railsas she joins forces with police diver Adil (Nassim Lyes) to search out and kill the monstrosity as Paris’s mayor tries to hurry the Triathlon alongside regardless of the hazard. Presumably, Aja will choose up from the awful ending Gens left viewers on, which noticed the duo’s plans fail and all hell break free as the town’s heart is plunged underwater and Lilith’s offspring flood the remainder of the world.

‘Beneath Paris 2’ Follows a Lengthy String of Beloved Shark Horrors

Whereas Aja could have expertise with terrors within the water, it will be a tall process to duplicate the success of Beneath Paris and create a shark flick that may stand with the perfect. The style is flooded with movies of various high quality, however it’s additionally delivered some actually traditional movies like Steven Spielberg‘s aforementioned Jaws or the quiet low-budget horror Open Water. Final 12 months even noticed a brand new addition to the sharksploitation oeuvre that earned widespread acclaim — the Jai Courtney-led Harmful Animalsfollowing a surfer who will get dragged to the ocean by a shark-obsessed serial killer to be ritualistically fed to the ocean creatures. Expectations stay excessive that Aja can create one other enjoyable, chaotic, and bloody trip that’ll draw audiences again to the infested waters of Paris, although.

Beneath Paris is now streaming on Netflix. Keep tuned right here at Collider for extra on the sequel now that Aja is on board.