After nearly a decade, The Night Manager is back — and Tom Hiddleston’s Jonathan Pine has a new name, a new life, and a new mission. Prime Video has unveiled the first official images from The Night Manager Season 2, which sees Hiddleston and Olivia Colman return for a fresh six-episode story premiering on the streamer worldwide (and on BBC/BBC iPlayer in the UK).
Joining Hiddleston and Colman is Camila Morrone, who plays Roxana Bolaños, a businesswoman reluctantly drawn into Pine’s investigation of Colombian industrialist Teddy Dos Santos, played by Babylon’s Diego Calva. According to executive producer Stephen Garrett, Roxy is “a creature of her own destiny,” signaling that Season 2 aims to avoid the genre’s familiar damsel tropes. “We wanted the female characters in this to be every bit as complex as the men,” he said.
What Is ‘The Night Manager’ Season 2 About?
Unlike the first season, which was adapted directly from John le Carré’s 1993 novel, The Night Manager Season 2 ventures into uncharted territory. There was no sequel to the original book, and the idea came to Farr in 2020, on the same night the celebrated author passed away at age 89. Farr shared his dream-born pitch with le Carré’s sons, Simon and Stephen Cornwell, who run the Ink Factory, the company behind all of their father’s adaptations. “My dad’s letter said, ‘You know what I stand for… but only you can figure out where to go next,’” Simon told Vanity Fair. “That is sort of the invitation.”
Hiddleston still remembers his first conversation with le Carré before filming the original series: “I saddled up to him and said, ‘Is there anything you’d like me to know before we begin?’” he recalled. “And he said, with a twinkle in his eye, ‘Well, of course, Tom, you would have guessed by now that Jonathan Pine is me — and now he must be you.’”
Season 2 isn’t the end — the Cornwells confirmed that a third season was greenlit alongside it. “Great stories often come in threes,” Simon teased. “If you liked Season 1 and were really drawn to Season 2, you are going to be blown away by Season 3.”
via Collider