The Night Manager is getting a much-requested second season – six years on from its globe-conquering debut.
The vastly profitable adaption of the John le Carré novel is about for a shock return. The follow-up to the 2016 smash-hit BBC drama can even see Tom Hiddleston return as Jonathan Pine.
As per Deadline, the BBC and Amazon Prime Video have introduced the present again from hiatus. The new collection is being developed beneath the codename Steelworks. It is believed the collection will start filming later this yr.
Though particulars are skinny on the bottom, the publication studies: “Following British arms dealer Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie) being taken away by the Syrians at the end of season one, Hiddleston’s Pine is informed he is dead two years later, and he has to face up to a new, even more deadly challenge.”
Possible places, which could trace on the future plotline, embody London and South America. That being mentioned, the collection is but to be formally greenlit by Amazon and the BBC, nevertheless, it’s reported that the present is now set to obtain a two-season order.
Hiddleston is just not the one star returning to the collection, as David Farr, who wrote the unique, is again to write down this follow-up season.
The first season, written by Farr and directed by Susanne Bier, adopted Pine, the evening supervisor of a luxurious Cairo lodge – and ex-British soldier – who’s employed by an intelligence officer to infiltrate arms supplier Roper’s interior circle.
The first collection was a smash-hit within the UK, and subsequently across the globe within the US and past. Indeed, The Night Manager went on to win two Emmy awards and three Golden Globes. Such was its success, that the unique present even spawned a Hindi adaptation, which Starred Aditya Roy Kapur and Anil Kooper.