It followed Hiddleston as Jonathan Pine, a former British soldier who is recruited by the manager of a Foreign Office taskforce to infiltrate an arms dealer’s inner circle while he is night manager of a luxury Cairo hotel.
The series became one of the top-rated UK dramas of 2016 and spawned a number of subsequent Le Carré adaptations from The Ink Factory, the production company run by his sons, Simon and Stephen Cornwell.
The new adaptation will be set in the present day, according to Deadline, and will follow Pine facing a new and more deadly challenge after being informed that arms dealer Richard Roper, played by Hugh Laurie, is dead.
Laurie, Colman and Hiddleston won Golden Globes for their performances in the thriller, which became an international success and led to speculation that Hiddleston, 43, could be the next James Bond.
It is not clear if Colman will reprise her role in the new series.
Plot will go beyond events of the novel
It remains to be seen where the plot may take Pine, because Le Carré‘s novel has no sequel. When Laurie was asked in 2016 whether the series would return, he said: “It’s based on a novel, we’ve got to the end of the novel and John le Carré has yet to write another novel. So in cold practical terms, no – we’re done.”
Le Carré, who died in 2020, took a very hands-off approach to the first series but was said to be pleasantly surprised by the alterations Farr made to his novel for the script.
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