The Night Manager season 2 premieres without a new le Carré novel

A second season of the spy series The Night Manager premieres this month on Prime Video in the United States and on the BBC in Britain, even though its original author, John le Carré, has died and there is no new le Carré novel to adapt, the showrunners said. Writer David Farr said his entry point came from a vision he recalled having in the early hours of Dec.

13, 2020 — an image of a black car driving toward a young boy — and that hours later his agent sent a message informing him that le Carré had died. Farr called the coincidence "the story that nobody will ever believe," a detail Simon Cornwell, an executive producer and a son of le Carré, said he viewed more skeptically.

The six-part season resumes the story with Jonathan Pine living under an assumed identity as a low-level surveillance officer who follows the trail of a former associate of arms dealer Richard Roper; much of the action is set in Colombia, where Pine goes undercover.

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Culture, John Le Carré, David Farr, Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, Colombia