Shadow Has Fallen, the third season of the Has Fallen franchise, is a go and has started filming. It follows Paris Has Fallen and the upcoming Apollo Has Fallen.
It also continues the high-octane ambition of Gerard Butler’s Has Fallen film franchise.
StudioCanal, Urban Myth Films, Millenium and G-Basesaid on Monday that filming has commenced, with the new season shooting in South Africa and the U.K.
Ritu Arya(The Umbrella Academy, Polite Society)and Tewfik Jallab(Spiral, Dark Hearts)reprise their respective roles as fearless MI6 operative Zara Taylor and former French Secret Service agent Vincent Taleb.
Joining the cast for season 3 are Iwan Rheon(Game of Thrones, Misfits), Brendan Coyle(Downton Abbey, Hit Point)and Atandwa Kani(Black Panther, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom).
The new six-episode season (6 x 52’) is once again written by series creator Howard Overman (War of The Worlds, Misfits, Hit Point) who said:“There’s a scale to season 3 that we’ve been building towards since Paris Has Fallen.” He added: “Shadow Has Fallen will see Vincent and Zara embark on their most demanding and morally challenging mission – a mission that takes them into the very heart of Southern Africa.”
Marco Kreuzpaintner (Bodies, The Lazarus Project) and Alice Troughton (The Living and The Dead, Cucumber, Dr Who) are attached to direct.
The show comes from producer Julian Murphy and executive producers Johnny Capps and Howard Overman for Urban Myth Films, M-K Kennedy and Daniel Gratton for StudioCanal, Gerard Butler and Alan Siegel for G-Base, as well as Avi Lerner, Jonathan Yunger and Yariv Lerner for Millennium.
Following the Canal+ Group’s acquisition of African pay-TV giant MultiChoice Group, Shadow Has Fallen is the second production of scale that studio arm StudioCanal is bringing to South Africa as it wraps filming on Bill Condon’s feature film The Road Home starring Thabo Rametsi, Cynthia Erivo, Guy Pearce, Johnny Flynn and John Legend.
“Shadow Has Fallen is the next chapter of StudioCanal’s globally recognized franchise,” the company said Monday. “The series will draw on South Africa’s world-class cast (additional names to be announced), crews and creative talent, further showcasing the country’s capabilities on the global stage.”
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