(Paris) Actor and director George Clooney will direct the American version of Office of Legendsrenamed The Departmentannounced on Monday the American pay channel Showtime and the French producers of the original series.
This “spy thriller will be anchored in the world of the American secret services and the recent geopolitical context, drawing heavily on the testimonies of former CIA agents”, specify in a press release the French co-producers TOP and Federation Studios at the origins of The fiction. Production is scheduled for 2023.
George Clooney will also be one of the co-producers of the series in the United States.
“You couldn’t dream of a better poster than George Clooney and Showtime for the North American version of the Office of Legends », Comments Guillaume Pommier, head of Federation in this press release.
“The passion and ambition we share with them for this incredible series, combined with Showtime’s firepower, will work wonders to bring The Department to international audiences,” he continues.
No indication was given on the American distribution.
The star series of Canal + was sold in more than 100 countries and praised by the DGSE (French intelligence services, where the characters evolve) itself for its realism.
French director Éric Rochant (The Patriots) was the writer-producer since the first broadcast in 2015, before, for the finale of the fifth and final season in 2020, handing over to Jacques Audiard, director ofa prophet and Brothers Sisters.
This series followed in the footsteps of these undercover French agents abroad (the famous “legends”, neat false identities) around a central character, Malotru, played by the French actor Mathieu Kassovitz.