After several months of waiting, Netflix is showing one of the other big films of 2024 exclusive to the platform. It will be released before the 2024 Olympics, and this is perhaps no coincidence.
Casually, Netflix has already drawn several of its big film and series cartridges for 2024, even if there are still a good number left. And perhaps the firm with the red N will also surprise its subscribers with new products out of the hat. We’ll see, but today, we’re here to tell you about the next unmissable blockbuster from the SVOD service. A feature film that will challenge a monument of American cinema, the city of Paris and the 2024 Olympics at the same time. Get ready, it’s going to be carnage!
Netflix is going to need a bigger boat
Netflix has obviously chosen this week to lift the veil on two French films which are already making a lot of noise, for good and bad. After Loups-Garous, which is 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, Sous la Seine. A big Netflix project with a large, very angry shark that will appear in the French river and disrupt the triathlon world championships. It’s hard not to see a connection with the future Olympic Games which will block Paris for several weeks.
“Summer 2024, Paris will host the triathlon world championships on the Seine for the first time. Sophia, a brilliant scientist, is alerted by Mika, a young activist devoted to ecology, of the presence of a large shark in the depths of the river. They have no choice but to team up with Adil, commander of the river police to avoid a bloodbath in the heart of the city. official synopsis (via Netflix).
Under the Seine will be released on June 5, 2024 exclusively on Netflix, and the trailer is as promising as it is improbable. Firstly, there is this promise of seeing people who have nothing to do in the Seine being eaten up. And secondly, we weren’t ready for this mix between Anne Hidalgo and Valérie Pécresse who will have to face a beast hungry for fresh flesh. A double who will survive the shark’s attack? Response in June.
A first trailer for the film Sous la Seine by Xavier Gens
On paper, Sous la Seine can therefore offer a delightful summer bloodbath to Netflix subscribers, fans of Jaws and other products of the genre like Survival Instinct. In addition to this reminder of the 2024 Olympics, or of politicians, this Netflix film directly refers to an event that occurred in 2022. In the trailer, we can hear the following dialogues. “A shark in the Seine? What would he do in Paris? For the orca and the beluga, you didn’t ask yourself the question, right? ». A few months apart, a beluga and an orca were found in the Seine. This improbable event did not cause any civilian deaths, but the animals unfortunately did not survive their Parisian swim.