Paramount has added to The Agency solid, with a brand new visitor star function set for the upcoming spy thriller sequence starring Michael Fassbender that premieres subsequent month.
Who’s enjoying the CIA director in The Agency solid?
In line with a report from Selection, The Wire star Dominic West has joined onto the upcoming sequence in a visitor star function. West will play the function of the Director of the CIA, though it’s unclear what number of episodes West will star in when he seems in the sequence.
West is finest recognized for his function in HBO’s The Wire, the place he performed Jimmy McNulty, an Irish-American detective. West additionally starred in Showtime’s The Affair, a task that earned him a Golden Globe nomination. West has additionally appeared in Netflix’s The Crown, the 1999 A Christmas Carol, and extra.
The Agency is ready to launch on November 29, 2024, and will likely be out there on each Showtime as properly as on Paramount+ with Showtime.
The Agency 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 USA 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.”
