BBC, Prime Video rehire The Night Manager
FIRST LOOK: Tom Hiddleston is back as The Night Manager, reprising his role as Jonathan Pine in the eagerly anticipated sequel to the 2016 drama.
Created and executive produced by David Farr, based on the characters created by John le Carré, season two is directed in full by Georgi Banks-Davies (I Hate Suzie, Paper Girls), with a story that expands beyond the source material of John le Carré’s titular novel for the first time.
Jonathan Pine (Hiddleston) thought he’d buried his past. Now living as Alex Goodwin – a low-level MI6 officer running a quiet surveillance unit in London – his life is comfortingly uneventful. Then one night a chance sighting of an old Roper mercenary prompts a call to action and leads Pine to a violent encounter with a new player: Colombian businessman Teddy Dos Santos (Diego Calva).
On this perilous new journey, Pine meets Roxana Bolaños (Camila Morrone), a businesswoman who reluctantly helps him infiltrate Teddy’s Colombian arms operation. Once in Colombia, Pine is plunged deep into a deadly plot involving arms and training of a guerrilla army.
As allegiances splinter, Pine races to expose a conspiracy designed to destabilise a nation. And with betrayal at every turn, he must decide whose trust he needs to earn and how far he’s willing to go before it’s too late.
Season two will star Diego Calva as Teddy and Camila Morrone as Roxana, alongside Indira Varma as Mayra, Paul Chahidi as Basil and Hayley Squires as Sally.
Returning cast include Olivia Colman as Angela Burr, Alistair Petrie as Sandy Langbourne, Douglas Hodge as Rex Mayhew, Michael Nardone as Frisky and Noah Jupe as Daniel Roper.
Due to air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK and Prime Vido in 240 countries and territories worldwide (excluding the UK), the series is produced by The Ink Factory in association with Character 7, Demarest Films and 127 Wall, and in coproduction with Spanish collaborator Nostromo Pictures.
The lead executive producer, as on season one, is Character 7’s Stephen Garrett. Further executive producers include Stephen and Simon Cornwell, Michele Wolkoff and Tessa Inkelaar for The Ink Factory; Joe Tsai and Arthur Wang for 127 Wall; Adrián Guerra for Nostromo Pictures; Georgi Banks-Davies, Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston; William D Johnson for Demarest Films, Nick Cornwell for John le Carré, Susanne Bier, Chris Rice for Fifth Season and Gaynor Holmes for the BBC.
The new series of The Night Manager, which was filmed in the UK, Spain, Colombia and France. Fifth Season is handling global distribution of the series.
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