Fans of spy thrillers are gearing up for the upcoming release of The Night Manager Season 2, but now they have something else to be excited about. When discussing Season 2, which lands on Prime Video January 11, director Georgi Banks-Davies reveals that the second chapter is far from the conclusion of John le Carré’s series. Season 3 of The Night Manager could be arriving sooner rather than later.
Those familiar with the show should understand how much of a big deal this is. Season 1 was released in 2016, and now, almost ten years later, MCU icon Tom Hiddleston reprises his role as the handsome hotel manager with a past in the military. Although it is better late than never, such a delay is fairly uncommon, especially considering how successful Season 1 was with audiences and critics.
Speaking to Variety about the second season (it has already premiered on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the U.K.), Banks-Davies says, “There’s a lot of pressure, but also so much freedom creatively. And I still cannot believe I got to make it.” Ahead of the highly anticipated return of the show, she reveals that there are no plans to end Jonathan Pine’s journey yet, as writer David Farr is already working on the third season of the show:
“There was a third season that was always in the offing. David is writing it now — he’s at the coalface and in the early stage. But yeah, when the second season came the plan was to go to three. So when you see our whole series, you’ll see it can sit entirely alone but can also sit very much as the second book in the trilogy.”
What Is ‘The Night Manager’ Season 2 About?
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Season 2 of The Night Manager sees Tom Hiddleston’s Jonathan Pine changing his identity once again. He is now Alex Goodwin, and he’s in charge of overseeing a London operation where he can gather intelligence on high-profile criminals. In the follow-up, Pine will try to infiltrate a powerful organization in South America, and use the best of his talents to take down a nefarious crime lord.
Although Season 1 was based on the book of the same name by le Carré, Season 2 doesn’t draw from an existing novel. Instead, Banks-Davies had to work with original material conceived by David Farr, the original series’ writer. The director discusses having to work on the first-ever expansion of the bestselling author’s body of work:
“There’s a lot of question marks around that. But they’ve been very conscious about how they’ve done it. And le Carré was aware of it before he passed away.
“He’d given it his blessing – he wanted them to do it. And we had the same writer [as Season 1] in David Farr, who’s an aficionado of le Carré and understands how to inhabit that world. For me, it’s like you have to trust that there is a DNA in the project, which is literally le Carré’s family. There will be nothing that would harm that or harm what their father would have intended.”
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2016 – 2025-00-00
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BBC One
