The acclaimed Emmy-winning series, The Night Manager, returns with a second seasonnine years after the first season premiered in 2016! on AMC.
Tom Hiddleston and the Oscar winner, Olivia Colman They return in leading rolesas Jonathan Pine, the manager of a luxury hotel who in the first season infiltrates a criminal arms trafficking organization for MI6, and British intelligence officer Angela Burr, respectively.
The second season picks up the story eight years after the last confrontation between spy Pine and arms dealer Richard Roper (played by Hugh Laurie), which ended with Roper's arrest and Pine's cover being revealed.
Now living under the alias Alex Goodwin, Pine has swapped luxury hotels for the anonymity of a discreet MI6 surveillance unit in London. But when a chance encounter with one of Roper's former mercenaries drags him back into the world of espionage, Pine finds himself embroiled in a new conspiracy that stretches from Colombia to Europe.
Vanity Fair shares the first official looks at the second seasonwhich will consist of 6 episodes with global premiere scheduled in Prime Video for this same year 2025.
Hiddleston and Colman are joined by the returns of Alistair Petrie as Lord Sandy Langbourne; Douglas Hodge como Rex Mayhew; Michael Nardone like Frisky; and Noah Skirt like Danny Roper. New additions include Camila Morrone (Daisy Jones & the Six), Diego Calva (Babylon), Indira Varma (Game of Thrones), Paul Chahidi (The Serpent Queen), y Hayley Squires (Beau is Afraid).
Morrone is Roxana Bolaños, a businesswoman who reluctantly becomes involved in Pine's investigation into Colombian industrialist Teddy Dos Santos, played by Calva.
According to the executive producer Stephen GarrettRoxy is “a creature of her own destiny. We wanted the female characters to be as complex as the male ones,” she told the outlet.
David Farr returns as creator, screenwriter and executive producer.
And unlike the first season, which was based directly on the novel by John le Carré from 1993, the second season enters unknown territory. There was no sequel to the original book, and the idea arose in 2020, the same night the famous author died at the age of 89, Farr explained to Vanity Fair.
Farr then shared his original idea with le Carré's sons, Simon and Stephen Cornwell, who run Ink Factory, the company responsible for all of their father's adaptations.
“My father's letter said, 'You know what my principles are… but only you can decide which path to take,'” Simon told the outlet. “That is, in a way, the invitation.”
And for everyone, great news: the second season will not be the end. The Cornwells confirmed that a third season has been given the green light:
“Great stories usually come in threes,” Simon said. “If you liked the first season and the second hooked you, you are going to love the third.”
Filming took place in London and South America. The director is Georgi Banks-Davies.
BBC produce The Night Managerwith Prime Video as its new broadcast home. The first season won the Emmy for best direction and soundtrack, in addition to earning nominations for Hiddleston, Colman and Laurie. Colman, Hiddleston and Laurie took home the Golden Globe for best supporting actress, best actor in a miniseries or TV movie, and best supporting actor, respectively.
The executive producers of the second time are Farr, Laurie, Banks-Davies, Hiddleston, Garrett, Joe Tsai, Arthur Wang, Stepen Cornwell, Simon Cornwell, Michele Wolkoff, Tessa Inkelaar, Adrián Guerra, William D. Johnson, Nick Cornwell, Susanne Bier, Chris Rice, Gaynor Holmes.
First looks:
Source: https://cine3.com/the-night-manager-primeros-vistazos-segund-temporada/
