Dominic West Joins 'The Bureau' Remake 'The Agency'

With less than a month until it debuts, the Paramount+/Showtime spy series The Agency is still announcing cast members as it races to complete filming. Starring Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave) and Jodie Turner-Smith (Anne Boleyn), this English-language remake of the French series The Bureau (Le Bureau des Legendes) was initially announced in early 2023. It then disappeared off the radar until mid-2024, when it suddenly gained Fassbender, writers, and director, and fast-forwarded into production with Paramount+ stating it would arrive before the end of the year.

In fairness, Paramount+ and Showtime kept that promise to have the series debut before 2025; the premiere is set for the final Friday of November 2024. However, last-minute arrivals are still joining the cast, like The Crown's Dominic West, who Variety revealed would be part of the show's inaugural season. Amusingly, West will play the American Director of the CIA, one of the few Brits in the cast playing an American. (The other two central American characters from the CIA are played by American actors Jeffrey Wright (Westworld) as Martian's contact, Henry, and Richard Gere (Pretty Woman) as his boss, Bosko.)

West's casting is almost certainly due to his role in The Wire, where he starred as a Baltimore cop. (For a good decade after, American viewers erroneously mistook the actor for a native Marylander.) It remains to be seen how many episodes West's character will appear in.