MOVIE NEWS – Spy thriller fans were already counting down the days to The Night Manager Season 2, but now there’s an extra reason to get hyped. A new update suggests Jonathan Pine’s story isn’t close to ending, and Season 3 may be moving forward faster than expected.
Spy thriller fans are already gearing up for the arrival of The Night Manager Season 2, but they’ve just been handed something else to look forward to. While speaking about the second season – which hits Prime Video on January 11 – director Georgi Banks-Davies made it clear that this isn’t the final chapter in John le Carré’s world. In fact, Season 3 of The Night Manager could be closer than anyone assumed.
Anyone familiar with the series will understand why this is such a big deal. Season 1 premiered back in 2016, and now, nearly a decade later, MCU star Tom Hiddleston returns as Jonathan Pine, the charming hotel manager with a military past. Better late than never, sure, but that kind of delay is highly unusual, especially given how strongly Season 1 resonated with both audiences and critics.
In an interview with Variety about the second season (which has already debuted on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the U.K.), Banks-Davies admitted: “There’s a lot of pressure, but also so much creative freedom. And I still can’t believe I got to make it.” Ahead of the long-awaited comeback, she also revealed there’s no intention of wrapping up Pine’s arc yet, since writer David Farr is already working on Season 3:
“A third season was always on the horizon. David is writing it now – he’s right in the thick of it and still early in the process. But yes, when Season 2 came along, the idea was always to take it to three. So once you watch the full run, you’ll see it can stand entirely on its own, but it also functions very much like the second book in a trilogy.”
What Is The Night Manager Season 2 About?
Season 2 of The Night Manager once again sees Tom Hiddleston’s Jonathan Pine reinventing himself. This time he goes by Alex Goodwin, running a London-based operation designed to collect intelligence on high-level criminals. In the new season, Pine will attempt to infiltrate a powerful organization in South America, using his full skill set to take down a dangerous crime boss.
While Season 1 was adapted from le Carré’s novel of the same name, Season 2 doesn’t follow an existing book. Instead, it’s built from original material developed by David Farr, the writer behind the first season. Banks-Davies spoke about what it meant to be involved in the very first expansion of the bestselling author’s body of work:
“There are a lot of question marks around that. But they’ve been extremely mindful of how they’ve approached it. And le Carré knew about it before he passed away.
He gave his blessing – he wanted them to do it. And we had the same writer [as Season 1] in David Farr, who’s a le Carré aficionado and knows exactly how to live in that world. For me, you have to trust there’s a DNA to this project, and that DNA is literally le Carré’s family. Nothing will be done that would damage that or go against what their father would have wanted.”
Source: MovieWeb
