An action thriller starring French actor and director Mathieu Kassovitz is being filmed at Swansea Airport this week. Paris Has Fallen is a TV series spin-off of the critically acclaimed Has Fallen film franchise, which included Olympus Has Fallen (2013), London Has Fallen (2016) and Angel Has Fallen (2019).
It's being developed by French film production company StudioCanal, War of the Worlds producer Urban Myth Films and the two companies behind the film franchise, Millennium Media and Gerard Butler and Alan Siegel's entertainment company, G-BASE.
According to entertainment news site Deadline, the Paris Has Fallen series has been written by the creator of BAFTA-winning series Misfits, Howard Overman, and is being directed by No Man's Land's Oded Ruskin. It's understood filming is set to take place in south Wales, London and Paris throughout the next few months, with chiefs set to pitch the series to a range of UK and US channels in the coming weeks. Developers are understood to have already scored deals at television networks in France, Germany and other European countries. You can get the biggest Swansea news stories straight to your inbox with our newsletter.
