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Personally, I would just love to see Gerard Butler return as Secret Service bad ass Mike Banning in the long-delayed Night Has Fallen which would be the fourth film in the blockbuster franchise, but it would appear that the star is taking a break from it. Butler is returning to the franchise in another capacity as he has serves as an executive producer via his G-Base production banner for a new TV series based on the property titled Paris has Fallen. New heroes emerge this time around as France is under attack and hopefully, these agents have the same mettle and moxy that Banning has, or all could be lost. Check out the action in the new trailer and key art below!
Official Synopsis: When a terrorist group led by the villainous Jacob Pearce (Sean Harris) attacks a high-profile event, with the French Minister of Defence as their target, protection officer Vincent Taleb (Tewfik Jallab) finds himself working with street-smart MI6 operative Zara Taylor (Ritu Arya) to save the day. But when events take a dark turn, Vincent and Zara soon realize that the plan extends beyond just one politician. When they suspect that one of their colleagues in the security services is feeding information to Jacob, Vincent and Zara find themselves needing to rely only on each other. Increasingly isolated and with Jacob always one step ahead, can this unlikely pair stop Paris from falling to a man hell-bent on vengeance?
This new threat is going to require two warriors to take it on in tough as nails protection officer Vincent Taleb, played by Tewfik Jallab and MI6 hotshot Zara Taylor who is portrayed by actress Ritu Arya. The trailer looks polished enough and the set pieces worthy of an Has Fallen entry so hopefully the entire series will deliver the goods. Jallab certainly looks impressive in the trailer but let’s face it, he’s not Butler or his alter ego Mike Banning but I will give it a shot.
Butler was supposed to do a fourth entry with the aforementioned Night Has Fallen but there has been no movement on that project for a while. it didn’t help that Butler sued Millenium Films who distributes the movies for insufficient compensation akin to what Scarlett Johannson did with Disney so maybe there are still some bad blood there. The last film, Angel Has Fallen, did wrap up banning’s story arc quite nicely though so if the fourth film never happens, at least we have three kick ass films to watch Banning, whom I call this generation’s John McClane, do his thing with his particular skill set.
The series look reminds me of FOX’s hit show 24 even with the poster radiating that series’ vibes. If anything, bullets will fly, stuff will blow up and bad guys will fall so I’ll be there.
At any rate, Paris Has Fallen blasts its way onto Canal+ starting on September 23rd.
