After several months of waiting, Netflix is showing one of the other big films of 2024 exclusively on the platform. It will be released before the 2024 Olympics, and that may not be a coincidence.
Incidentally, Netflix has already pulled some of its big film and series slates for 2024, although there is still a lot left. And perhaps the company with the red N will surprise its subscribers with new products out of the hat. We’ll see, but today we’re here to tell you about the SVOD service’s next must-see blockbuster. A feature film that simultaneously challenges a monument of American cinema, the city of Paris and the 2024 Olympic Games. Get ready, there will be a bloodbath!
Netflix is going to need a bigger boat
Netflix has apparently decided this week to lift the veil on two French films that are already generating a lot of buzz, for better or worse. According to Loups-Garous, which has been compared to Jumanji but from home, the platform will promote the 2024 Olympics in its own way. Director Xavier Gens (Frontière(s), Hitman…) is back to sign a new genre feature film. Under the Seine. A major Netflix project featuring a large, very angry shark that will appear in the French River and disrupt the World Triathlon Championships. It is difficult not to see a connection with the future Olympic Games, which will block Paris for several weeks.
“In the summer of 2024, Paris will host the Triathlon World Championships on the Seine for the first time. Sophia, a brilliant scientist, is alerted to the presence of a large shark in the depths of the river by Mika, a young ecology activist. They have no choice but to team up with Adil, the commander of the River Police, to prevent a bloodbath in the heart of the city.
Under the Seine will be released exclusively on Netflix on June 5, 2024 and the trailer is as promising as it is unlikely. First, there is the promise of eating people who have nothing to do in the Seine. And secondly, we weren’t ready for this mix of Anne Hidalgo and Valérie Pécresse who has to face a beast hungry for fresh meat. A doppelganger who will survive the shark attack? Answer in June.
A first trailer for the film Sous la Seine by Xavier Gens
On paper, Sous la Seine can therefore offer Netflix subscribers, fans of Jaws and other products of the genre such as Survival Instinct a wonderful summer bloodbath. In addition to this reminder of the 2024 Olympic Games and politicians, this Netflix film also directly refers to an event in 2022. In the trailer we can hear the following dialogues. “A shark in the Seine? What would he do in Paris? As for the orca and the beluga, you haven’t asked yourself that question, have you? ». A beluga and an orca were found in the Seine a few months apart. This unlikely event caused no civilian deaths, but unfortunately the animals did not survive their Paris swim.