Deadline reports that the second season of BBC and Amazon Prime series The Night Manager. Tom Hiddleston (Loki, Crimson Peak) is returning as his character Jonathan Pine. The series is an adaptation of the John Le Carré novel of the same name. It is produced by The Ink Factory, which is ran by le Carré’s sons Simon (One Kind of Traitor, Hotel Artemis) and Stephen Cornwell (Killing Streets, Marshal Law).
David Farr (The Ones Below, Hanna), writer of season one, will return to write the series which was code named Steelworks. Season two will likely be filming in London and South America later this year.
There have been rumors of a second season since the first season finished in March of 2016. The upcoming season is said to be set in the present day. Season one ends after Hugh Laurie’s character Richard Roper, British arms dealer, is taken by the Syrians and Pine learns of his death a few years later.
Season one is directed by Susanne Bier (In a Better World, Bird Box) and stars Tom Hollander (The White Lotus, About Time), David Harewood (Supergirl, Homeland), Elizabeth Debicki (Tenet, The Crown), and Olivia Colman (The Favourite, Fleabag). It follows Pine, former British soldier and now night manager at a luxury Cairo hotel, as he is recruited a Foreign Office task-force to invade Roper’s inner circle. The first season won two Emmys and three Golden Globes and was one of the top-rated UK dramas of 2016.
The series aired in the U.S. on AMC, which led to numerous other le Carré adaptations from The Ink Factory such as Little Drummer Girl starring Florence Pugh (Little Women, Midsommar).
The Night Manager‘s Hindi adaptation stars Anil Kapoor as Roper (Mr. India, Laadia) and Adita Roy Kapur (Kalank, Malang) as Pine; it was released Hotstar earlier this February on Disney+. Simon Cornwell told Deadline he is open to a second season of the Hindi version.
The Ink Factory has minority stake in Fifth Season which distributes The Night Manager.