Canal+ Confirms Production On Next Instalment Of ‘Has Fallen’ TV Series

Has Fallen will return for another high-stakes season on TV.

Canal+ CEO Maxime Saada today confirmed a second season of the action thriller series, which was spun out of the Has Fallen films, is in production in the UK on a second season. Season 1, Paris Has Fallen, was set in the French capital with some filming taking place in London.

Saada revealed the news in comments prepared for Canal+’s preliminary full-year 2024 results.

“Studiocanal‘s first-ever global TV series Paris Has Fallen, based on the successful Has Fallen film franchise, was a smashing success in all Canal+ pay-TV territories, as well as on Amazon Prime in the UK and Hulu in the United States,” he said. “It will naturally be followed by a second season now shooting in the UK.”

No further details were given but Season 1 of the Canal+ original, which sold to the likes of Hulu and Prime Video, was made by the French giant+’s production arm, Studiocanal; the latter’s UK subsidiary Urban Myth Films; the two companies behind the film franchise, Millennium Media and Gerard Butler’s G-BASE; and Eclectic Pictures.

The comments came in a statement accompanying the French TV giant’s first annual financial results since listing on the London Stock Exchange. Canal+ reported revenues of €6.45B ($6.77B) and EBITA of €503M, but its share price has been falling the listing in December.

We’re looking into production details on Has Fallen‘s instalment and will update the story if and when we have them. We have reached out to Studiocanal for further comment. In general, the Has Fallen franchise has moved locales, with the first film, 2013’s Olympus Has Fallen, set in the White House and the second, London Has Fallen, taking place on British shores. The third, Angel Has Fallen, was set between Virginia and Washington DC. In an interview with Deadline last year, Studiocanal’s Chief Commercial Officer, Anne Chérel, said of a second season: “The plan would be to go to another city. There are so many opportunities in terms of fascinating cities.”

Paris Has Fallen was set in the French capital and followed Vincent Taleb (Tewfik Jallab), a protection officer to a French Minister, the target of a terror group. Vincent worked with MI6 operative Zara (Ritu Arya) to keep the politician safe, but they eventually unravelled a wider plot, suspecting that a security service colleague was feeding information to the terror group’s leader, who was always a step ahead in his mission to bring down Paris.