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Watchers of Netflix, it’s official. Your favourite OTT is turning Call My Agent! into a movie, and it already sounds way more glamorous than your expectations. And if you haven’t heard about the original French show, then you probably are not scrolling on Netflix enough.

But it’s okay. What are we here for? You seem Call My Agent! is a French dramedy about a group of talent agents in Paris trying to manage their high-maintenance celebrity clients while barely keeping their own lives together.

But if you have watched it, you know that the show was never about what agents “do”. It was always about the mayhem behind celebrity perfection and the artists behind that perfection, aka the agents. These savages juggle egos and deadlines better than a clown in a circus and handle breakdowns like a toddler mom, all while pretending they have everything under control.

And now, Netflix is bringing a movie that picks up five years after that bittersweet finale, with Camille Cottin’s Andrea Martel now trying her luck behind the camera. She is directing her first film when, right before shooting, her lead actor quits. So, of course, she has to drag her old agency team back together to save it. And if you remember, Andrea, you know that reunion won’t be peaceful.

The film’s being produced by Mediawan, the company behind the original, so it’s staying close to its French roots. Most of the original cast is coming back, including Laure Calamy, Grégory Montel, Nicolas Maury, and Liliane Rovère: basically everyone who gave the show its wit and dysfunction. But what’s new this time is how big it’s going. The movie’s adding cameos that sound like a crossover episode between Cannes and Hollywood.

George Clooney has already confirmed he’s in it. And now Eva Longoria is in talks to join him. Nothing’s final yet, but the idea of Clooney and Longoria stepping into the madness of a Paris talent agency feels almost too good to be true. It’s the perfect bit of casting mess with two Hollywood stars walking into a show that’s built on sending up fame itself.

And it fits. Call My Agent! (or Dix pour cent in France) has always been about celebrity illusions. In real words, the glossy public image versus the everyday panic behind it. When it first came out in 2015, it was a local hit that turned into an international obsession. Real French stars played exaggerated versions of themselves, and people loved it because it made the industry feel exposed while still keeping it charming. The show ended in 2020, but it refused to die quietly.

Since then, there have been remakes everywhere, including the UK, Italy, South Korea, and even India, all proving that agents freaking out while stars throw tantrums is universal entertainment.

The movie sounds like it’s leaning into that idea of showbiz eating itself. Andrea’s now on the other side of the story: a director trying to survive her own production disaster. It’s poetic, in a way, now that the fixer has to fix herself. And then, somewhere in the middle of that, George Clooney shows up? It’s meta and messy, and it is exactly the self-aware fun that Call My Agent! fans will enjoy.

There’s no release date yet, but production’s already underway in France. Between Clooney’s confirmed cameo, Longoria’s possible addition, and the original cast back together, it seems like Netflix knows what it’s doing.