AMC has landed The Night Manager.
Following a multiple-network bidding war, AMC has handed out a straight-to-series pickup for the John le Carre limited series, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. AMC declined comment, but sources say the cabler is looking at the project as a six- or eight-part miniseries.
Published in 1993, le Carre's Night Manager follows Jonathan Pine, a British soldier turned luxurious hotel night auditor. Pine crosses paths with a French-Arab woman named Sophie with ties to Richard Onslow Roper, an English black marketer who specializes in weapons. The woman provides Pine with incriminating documents, which he forwards to a friend in British intelligence. After Sophie winds up dead, Pine works with intelligence operatives and goes undercover as part of a sting against Roper to avenge Sophie's death.
Following a multiple-network bidding war, AMC has handed out a straight-to-series pickup for the John le Carre limited series, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. AMC declined comment, but sources say the cabler is looking at the project as a six- or eight-part miniseries.
Published in 1993, le Carre's Night Manager follows Jonathan Pine, a British soldier turned luxurious hotel night auditor. Pine crosses paths with a French-Arab woman named Sophie with ties to Richard Onslow Roper, an English black marketer who specializes in weapons. The woman provides Pine with incriminating documents, which he forwards to a friend in British intelligence. After Sophie winds up dead, Pine works with intelligence operatives and goes undercover as part of a sting against Roper to avenge Sophie's death.
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Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston? I'm definitely in whatever the show may be, which by the way sounds very interesting.
ReplyDeleteSounds good.
ReplyDeleteWOW, huge names involved!
ReplyDeleteOh its part of the AMC/BBC deal this is great. What a cast as well.
ReplyDeleteThe cast sounds more interesting than the plot so far, I'll have to wait and see.
ReplyDeleteHugh Laurie, Tom Hiddleston in a John le Carre story? I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE NOW!
ReplyDelete... I'm cool... I'm calm... it's good...