If you had said, back at the turn of the year, that millions of people would have sat down to watch a movie on Netflix that involved a giant CGI shark roaming the River Seine and the catacombs beneath the city of Paris, nobody would have believed you. Yet millions did watch Under Paris.
The Xavier Gens directed the film starred Bérénice Bejo. She played a grieving marine biologist who is forced to face her tragic past in order to save Paris from a bitey bloodbath at a major triathlon.
For some reason, people really responded to Under Paris. Maybe it was the self-important, self-indulged Gen-Z eco-warrior characters getting regularly munched that appealed to us so much?
Well, the movie ended on something of a cliffhanger, and now Under Paris is reportedly receiving a sequel. This follows the $21 million movie overcoming mixed reviews and hitting more than 40 million views in just five days,
It was a fixture on the Netflix top ten charts across 93 countries and the best launch ever on the streamer for a non-English language film. Via an interview in La Tribune (reported by Coming Soon), Bejo revealed that she will be back for the sequel and start work in September 2025. She says:
“It will not be a simple sequel. It is another film, very different…but still, with a shark.”
Netflix has yet to officially announce the sequel, but Gens had already said he expected to make another.