Paris Has Fallen: Gerard Butler’s Action Film Series Is Getting a TV Show

Gerald Butler’s Has Fallen action film franchise is moving to television with Paris Has Fallen, a new series starring French actor and filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz.

According to Deadline, Paris Has Fallen will star Kassovitz as Vincent, a protection officer to a French minister who is being targeted by a terror group. The terror group is led by the series’ villain Jacob, who always seems to be one step ahead of the protagonists. In order to keep the politician — and all of Paris — safe from Jacob’s terror campaign, Vincent teams up with MI6 operative Zara to protect the city.

The rest of the cast members aside from Kassavitz are yet to be confirmed, but casting is reportedly being finalized soon. At this point, Butler is not attached to star in the show, but he could make a cameo at some point. Butler plays U.S. Secret Service agent Mike Banning in the movie trilogy: Olympus Has Fallen, London Has Fallen, and Angel Has Fallen.

Back in 2019, Angel Has Fallen producer Alan Siegel told Deadline that more movies and local-language TV spin-offs are being planned after the success of that film. A fourth movie, Night Has Fallen, is reportedly in development, but updates on that production have been few and far between. However, Paris Has Fallen signals the franchise’s first foray into expanding into television.

Paris Has Fallen will be made by StudioCanal and War of the Worlds producer Urban Myth Films. The two companies behind the film franchise, Millennium Media and Butler’s G-Base, also have a role in the show’s creation. It’s being written by Howard Overman, who created the BAFTA-winning series Misfits. Shooting on the series will commence on May 30 in London and Paris under director Oded Ruskin. StudioCanal will shop the eight-part series to U.S. and UK buyers in the coming months.

The Has Fallen franchise has seen immense box office success, pulling in over $500 million in total gross. 2013’s Olympus Has Fallen, the first film in the franchise, is the best installment according to IGN’s review. That film earned a 7.5/10 and was deemed “a far better Die Hard movie” than White House Down, which released less than a month before Olympus and boasted an exceedingly similar plot.

The Has Fallen series has always done well at providing some old-school action fun to theaters, so it will be interesting to see how the franchise’s violent and gritty action format will translate to the small screen.

Carson Burton is a freelance news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter at @carsonsburton.