The Agency on Paramount+ – Two-Time Academy Award® Nominee Michael Fassbender To Star In Political Espionage Thriller – The Agency.
The Agency Coming Soon Exclusively To Paramount+.
Paramount+ with Showtime today announced that production is currently underway on the political espionage thriller The Agencywith two-time Academy Award nominee Michael Fassbenderset as star and executive producer. George Clooney and Grant Heslov will executive produce through their Smokehouse Pictures with Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios set to produce.
The Agency is a fresh take on the critically acclaimed hit French drama Le Bureau des Légendes and will debut on Paramount+ soon.
The series is co-distributed internationally by Paramount Global Content Distribution and Federation Studios.
The series follows Martian (Fassbender), a covert CIA agent ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station.
When the love he left behind reappears, romance reignites. His career, his real identity and his mission are pitted against his heart; hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage.
“Michael Fassbender is one of the most gifted actors of our time,”
– said: Chris McCarthy, Paramount Global Co-CEO and President/CEO, Showtime & MTV Entertainment Studios.
“He brings a gravitas and nuanced complexity to every character he inhabits which is why we are so excited for him to star in The Agency as we start to roll out our new slate of SHOWTIME originals.”
Fassbender has just completed production on Steven Soderbergh feature, Black Bag with Cate Blanchett and will next be seen in Sundance Audience Award winner, Kneecap, about the rise of the Belfast-based rap trio.
Last year he returned to screens with David Fincher’s acclaimed noir assassin thriller, The Killer and also Taika Waititi’s comedy, Next Goal Wins.
The Bureau – Le Bureau des Légendes centres on the daily life and missions of agents within France’s principal external security service (DGSE). It focuses on the “Bureau of Legends” service, responsible for training and handling deep-cover agents on long-term missions in areas with French interests.
Living under false identities for years, these agents’ missions are to identify and recruit good intelligence sources.
Golden Globe® nominee and multi-BAFTA® winner Joe Wright (Pride and Prejudice, The Darkest Hour and The Atonement) will direct and executive produce the new drama series and Tony® Award-winning writer Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth (Ford v Ferrari, Edge of Tomorrow) will executive produce and write all ten episodes.
Commissioned by Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios and produced in association with 101 Studios, The Agency is executive produced by Keith Cox and Nina L. Diaz of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios; David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, David Hutkin and Bob Yari of 101 Studios (Yellowstone); George Clooney and Grant Heslov for Smokehouse Pictures; Alex Berger for TOP-The Originals Productions; Ashley Stern and Pascal Breton for Federation Studios/Federation Entertainment of America; and Michael Fassbender. Jez and John-Henry Butterworth are writers and executive producers; Joe Wright is executive producer and director for the first two episodes.
The Agency will soon join a host of the world’s best entertainment currently streaming on Paramount+, including Mayor Of Kingstown Season Three, Top Gear Australia, Lolla: The Story Of Lollapalooza, A Gentleman In Moscow, Knuckles, Elsbeth, Little Wing, Evil Season Four, Star Trek: Discovery Season Five, The Gilded Age Season Two, Let The Canary Sing, NCIS: Sydney, Frasier, The Inspired Unemployed (Impractical) Jokers and The Family Stallone Season Two, with Fake, Michelle Etheridge: I’m Not Broken, Mafia Spies Season One and Seal Team Season Seven streaming soon.
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