Update: Paramount has introduced that the sequence is now titled The Agency and Fassbender is confirmed to star. It will premiere on Paramount+ with Showtime later this yr and encompass ten episodes, with Jez and John-Henry Butterworth writing the sequence and Joe Wright directing the primary two episodes.

“Michael Fassbender is one of the most gifted actors of our time,” mentioned Chris McCarthy, Paramount Global co-CEO and president/CEO of 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.”

Original Story (February 27, 2024):

Michael Fassbender is in negotiations to star in George Clooney’s new thriller sequence, The Department.

Per Variety, Fassbender is presently in talks to star in The Department, a brand new Showtime sequence being directed by Clooney. Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures are producing the sequence with MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios.

The sequence is anticipated to start filming this spring in London.

What can we find out about The Department?

The Department is predicated on The Bureau, a French tv sequence that was created by Éric Rochant. The Bureau initially aired in France in April 2015 earlier than it got here to the United States in June 2016. The sequence ran for 5 seasons and starred Mathieu Kassovitz, Sara Giraudeau, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, and Léa Drucker.

“Based on real accounts and inspired by contemporary events, this French spy thriller follows the daily lives and missions of members of the country’s external security service — France’s equivalent of the CIA,” the synopsis for The Bureau reads. “It focuses on intelligence officer Guillaume Debailly, code-named ‘Malotru,’ who is mysteriously recalled to Paris after spending six years undercover in Syria. As he tries to reconnect with his daughter, ex-wife, and colleagues, Debailly risks everything by resuming contact with his married lover, Nadia, who might have secrets of her own that jeopardize the agent.”

In 2023, Fassbender starred in David Fincher’s The Killer and Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins. He’ll quickly be seen in Kneecap, an Irish film directed by Rich Peppiatt that premiered on the Sundance Film Festival in January 2024, and Kung Fury 2, which is directed by David Sandberg and likewise stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Alexandra Shipp.

Clooney, in the meantime, lately directed 2023’s The Boys in the Boat. He’s additionally directed motion pictures comparable to 2021’s The Tender Bar, 2020’s The Midnight Sky, 2014’s The Monuments Men, 2011’s The Ides of March, and extra.

A launch date for The Department has not but been set.