George Clooney is set to direct and produce a political espionage thriller series for Showtime under the working title The Department.According to Deadline, the network ordered the series as an adaptation of the French drama The Bureau (Le Bureau des Legendes), which aired for five seasons from 2015 to 2020.
Based on actual accounts by former spies and inspired by contemporary events, the series focused on intelligence officer Guillaume 'Malotru' Debailly, who returns to the French capital after six years undercover in Damascus.
The Bureau centered on the daily lives of French agents within the nation's leading external security service - their equivalent of the CIA - who trained and led long-term missions in areas with French interests.
Living under false identities for years, these agents aim to identify and recruit good intelligence sources. This comes after Clooney as seen filming Wolves in New York City.
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