EXCLUSIVE: One 12 months in the past we instructed you {that a} second season of John le Carré adaptation The Night time Supervisor was quietly being developed below the codename Steelworks.
Now, Deadline can reveal that the BBC and new co-pro associate Amazon have gone huge on a supercharged double-season order of the thriller, with Tom Hiddleston returning to guide, Hugh Laurie coming again as EP and with a brand new director in I Hate Suzie’s Georgi Banks-Davies. David Farr returns as author and Stephen Garrett is showrunner.
The Night time Supervisor Season 2 will start filming later this 12 months and can choose up with Hiddleston’s Jonathan Pine eight years after the explosive finale of Season 1, going past the unique ebook, which was written by the celebrated British author in 1993. Extra plot particulars are being stored below wraps and there may be not but affirmation as as to if EP Laurie’s Richard Roper, who was final seen behind a paddy wagon pushed by arms consumers who weren’t finest happy with him, will return to star. Hiddleston may also EP and can focus on in additional depth on tonight’s Jimmy Kimmel Stay!
Produced by The Ink Manufacturing facility in affiliation with Character 7, Demarest Movies and 127 Wall, and in co-production with Spanish associate Nostromo Footage, The Night time Supervisor Season 2 was bought to Amazon by Fifth Season. The primary was co-produced with AMC.
New director Banks-Davies, a BAFTA-nominee who takes over from Susanne Bier, has credit together with I Hate Suzie, Garfield and upcoming Netflix collection Kaos.
The Night time Supervisor Season 1 was an enormous success, watched by hundreds of thousands and profitable a number of BAFTAs, Emmys and Golden Globes together with finest actor for Hiddleston. Additionally starring Tom Hollander, Olivia Colman and Elizabeth Debicki, it adopted Pine – who ran a luxurious resort in Cairo – as he tried to infiltrate the interior circle of Roper’s crime syndicate after being employed by Overseas Workplace activity pressure supervisor Angela Burr.
The primary season was commissioned greater than 10 years in the past and has since been remade in India, lapping the UK model by swiftly having a Season 2 greenlit for Disney+ Hotstar in Might final 12 months.
Simon Cornwell and Stephen Cornwell, le Carré’s sons who run The Ink Manufacturing facility, mentioned Season 1 proved “a landmark second for the golden period of tv – uniting on-screen and behind-the-camera expertise on the prime of their recreation – and an viewers reception which was past our wildest imagining.”
They added: “Revisiting the story of Pine additionally means going past the occasions of John le Carré’s authentic work: that may be a resolution we’ve got not taken flippantly, however his compelling characters and the imaginative and prescient David has for his or her subsequent chapter have been irresistible.”
Amazon MGM Studios Head of Tv Vernon Sanders mentioned: “We’re elated to convey further seasons of The Night time Supervisor to our Prime Video clients. The mixture of terrific supply materials, the fantastic group at The Ink Manufacturing facility, an important author in David Farr, an award-winning director in Georgi Banks-Davies, in addition to the proficient solid really make the collection the total bundle.”
Hiddleston mentioned: “The primary collection of The Night time Supervisor was one of the vital creatively fulfilling tasks I’ve ever labored on. The depth, vary and complexity of Jonathan Pine was, and stays, an exciting prospect.”
BBC content material boss Charlotte Moore added: “After years of fervent hypothesis I’m extremely excited to verify that The Night time Supervisor is returning to the BBC for 2 extra collection.”
The Night time Supervisor collection two is created and govt produced by Farr, based mostly on the characters created by le Carré. Extra govt producers embody Garrett for Character 7, Banks-Davies, Laurie and Hiddleston; Joe Tsai and Arthur Wang for 127 Wall; Stephen and Simon Cornwell, Michele Wolkoff, and Tessa Inkelaar for The Ink Manufacturing facility; Adrián Guerra for Nostromo Footage; William D. Johnson for Demarest Movies, Nick Cornwell, Susanne Bier, Chris Rice for Fifth Season and Gaynor Holmes for the BBC.
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