Netflix’s Shark Movie Sequel ‘Under Paris 2’ Starts Filming in France

After hooking viewers with French shark movie “Under Paris,” Netflix is finally getting ready for another bite of the cherry as “Under Paris 2” has gone into production in the south of France, Variety can confirm.

Original cast members Bérénice Bejo and Nassim Lyes return alongside Guillaume Gouix, Phillippe Bas, Manon Bresch and Anne Marivin.

The sequel is set three years after the events of “Under Paris,” when a triathlon in the French capital turned into a bloodbath after a bunch of mutated sharks not only set up camp in the River Seine but started reproducing. Attempts to neutralize them resulted in a chain reaction that ended up flooding the entire city.

“Three years after the Paris triathlon disaster, the center of the Capital is submerged,” reads the logline for the sequel. “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…”

“Piranha 3D” helmer Alexandre Aja takes the reigns from Xavier Gens, who wrote and directed “Under Paris,” although Gens stays on as co-writer (alongside Aja, Gregory Levasseur, Frédéric Garcia, William Laboury and Fanny Talmone) and associate producer, also with Aja. Aja and Levasseur are credited with adaptation while Vincent Roget (“Let Me Be”) is producing.

“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,” Aja said of sinking his teeth into the movie.

Garnering more than 102 million views since its 2024 release, “Under Paris” is the most popular French film in Netflix’s history and the second most popular non-English language film on the platform. Its success was all the more surprising given it was initially turned down by a number of French studios and financiers.

Variety‘s reviewer compared it favorably to the daddy of shark movies, “Jaws,” saying: “Netflix’s new thriller swims rather than sinks as it adds life to a genre that’s been bloodless for far too long.”