Paris Has Fallen is a 2024 French and English-language action television series. It is written by Howard Overman and directed by Oded Ruskin and Hans Herbots. The cast is led by Tewfik Jallab, Ritu Arya and Sean Harris.
Contents
Premise
Set in the Has Fallen universe, a disillusioned former French Foreign Legion soldier launches a revenge attack against the French government.
Cast
Tewfik Jallab as Vincent Taleb, a Protection Service bodyguard and former French Army soldier
Ritu Arya as Zara Taylor, an MI6 agent stationed in Paris working with the French authorities
Sean Harris as Jacob Pearce, a British terrorist and former Captain in the French Foreign Legion
Ana Ularu as Freja Karlsson, a Swedish mercenary and ex-Special Operations Group soldier working with Pearce
Camille Rutherford as Théa, Zara's French love interest
Jérémie Covillault as Matis Garnier, the Head of Counterterrorism at the DGSI
Emmanuelle Bercot as Juliette Levesque, the President of France
Nathan Willcocks as Philippe Bardin, the French Defence Minister
Laurent Lucas as Pascal Moulin, the CEO of KMI Systems, a French defence contractor and weapons manufacturer
Karl Collins as Rowan Alexander, a diplomat at the British Embassy in Paris and former MI6 Kabul Station Chief
Paul Gorostidi as Lucas, a DGSI taskforce officer assisting Vincent and Zara
Production
The eight-part series is written by Howard Overman and produced by StudioCanal, Urban Myth Films, and Millennium Media and G-BASE, the two companies that produced the Has Fallen film franchise. Eclectic Pictures is also attached. Johnny Capps, Julian Murphy, and Howard Overman are producers for Urban Myth, whilst Gerard Butler and Alan Siegel produce for G-Base. For Millenium Media Avi Lerner is a producer along with Jeffrey Greenstein, Jonathan Yunger, and Yariv Lerner as well as Heidi Jo Markel from Eclectic Pictures. Lati Grobman is an executive producer. The lead directors are Oded Ruskin and Hans Herbots. Filming took place in October 2023 with filming locations including Paris and London. Filming for the second season occurred in Bristol in February 2025.
Mathieu Kassovitz was initially cast in the lead role but was later replaced by Tewfik Jallab. Other cast members include Sean Harris, Ritu Arya and Camille Rutherford, as well as Ana Ularu, Jérémie Covillault and Emmanuelle Bercot.
Release
The series was shown on Canal+ in France from 23 September 2024. It premiered in Australia on public broadcaster SBS on 26 September 2024. The series was released in the United Kingdom on Amazon Prime Video on 1 November 2024. All eight episodes premiered in the United States on 6 December 2024, on Hulu. It also premiered in India on Lionsgate Play from 18 December 2024.
Reception
Neil Armstrong in the i newspaper praised the performance of Arya and described it as a "silly but enjoyable action thriller". Adam Sweeting for The Arts Desk gave the show four stars and praised "strong work from Arya and Jallab" but felt that "the show’s major calling card is Sean Harris".
Sequel
On March 28, 2025, it was announced that a second series continuing with some of the same actors, Apollo Has Fallen, was in production, with filming underway.