StudioCanal Greenlights 'Shadow Has Fallen' Season 3 — SkimNews
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- StudioCanal announced 'Shadow Has Fallen,' the third season of the Has Fallen TV franchise, written by series creator Howard Overman and set in southern Africa, building on the Gerard Butler film series and prior seasons 'Paris Has Fallen' and 'Apollo Has Fallen.'
- Iwan Rheon (Game of Thrones), Brendan Coyle (Downton Abbey), and Atandwa Kani (Black Panther) join the Season 3 cast alongside returning leads Ritu Arya (MI6's Zara Taylor) and Tewfik Jallab (Vincent Taleb).
- The Season 3 logline centers on Miles (Rheon), a British whistleblower extracted from a prison bus ambush in Mozambique who possesses an untraceable cyber weapon he helped the British government develop.
- Gerard Butler, the original film franchise's star, now holds an executive producer credit via G-BASE alongside producers from Urban Myth Films, Millennium, and StudioCanal; Overman described the season as Taylor and Taleb's most 'demanding and morally challenging mission' to date.
- Marco Kreuzpaintner (Bodies) and Alice Troughton (The Living and the Dead) are attached to direct Season 3 episodes.
- 'Apollo Has Fallen' (Season 2) premieres September 14 on Canal+ in France and will stream on Hulu in the U.S. and Amazon Prime Video in the UK.
Why it matters: StudioCanal is expanding the Has Fallen brand beyond the Gerard Butler film franchise into a serialized international thriller, relocating from Paris to southern Africa and recruiting prestige TV casting from Game of Thrones and Downton Abbey. The move secures streaming inventory across Canal+, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video while giving Butler an executive producer role via G-BASE.
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