Jeffrey Wright Joins Michael Fassbender In Paramount+ With Showtime’s Remake Of ‘The Bureau’
Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction) has been tapped to star opposite Michael Fassbender in The Agency (fka The Department), George Clooney’s remake of French political drama series The Bureau.
The political thriller 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.
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Wright will play Henry, the Director of Operations and mentor to Martian (Fassbender).
“Jeffrey Wright doesn’t just portray characters – he inhabits them completely, infusing each role with raw, emotional power and profound, psychological insight,” said Chris McCarthy, Paramount Global Co-CEO and President/CEO, Showtime & MTV Entertainment Studios. “We are thrilled to have him join Michael Fassbender and our creative dream team of Joe Wright, Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, Grant Heslov and George Clooney.”
Le Bureau centers on the daily life and missions of agents within France’s principal external security service. It focuses on the “Bureau of Legends,” 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.
The Bureau – Le Bureau des Légendes was created by Eric Rochant and is a Canal+ Creation Originale series produced by TOP – The Originals Productions and Federation Studios.
The Agency, currently in production in London, is commissioned by Showtime Studios and produced in association with 101 Studios. Clooney and Grant Heslov will executive produce through Smokehouse Pictures. Keith Cox and Nina L. Diaz executive produce for Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios along with David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, David Hutkin and Bob Yari for 101 Studios, Alex Berger for The Originals Productions; and Ashley Stern and Pascal Breton for Federation Studios/Federation Entertainment of America. Jez and John-Henry Butterworth are writers and executive producers; Joe Wright is executive producer and director for the first two episodes.
Wright most recently was seen as Thelonius “Monk” Ellison, the protagonist in Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios’ American Fiction, for which he received Oscar, Golden Globe, Critics Choice, Gotham, SAG and NAACP Image Awards nominations, and won the Independent Spirit Award for his performance. Upcoming, Wright will star opposite Denzel Washington in the Spike Lee directed, Apple Original Films/A24 thriller, High and Low and he will appear in Season 2 of HBO’s The Last Of Us, reprising his role of Isaac from the video game. Wright is repped by CAA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein.
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