John le Carré's sons: "We fantasise about The Night Manager season 2"
Simon and Stephen Cornwell were speaking to Radio Times magazine about new documentary The Pigeon Tunnel.
The sons of legendary espionage novelist John Le Carré have revealed that they "fantasise" about a second season of the hit BBC One adaptation The Night Manager.
The acclaimed six-part series – which starred Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie and Olivia Colman, and was based on Le Carré's 1993 novel of the same name – was first broadcast in 2016, and fans have been calling for a second run ever since it finished airing.
Now speaking to Radio Times magazine about Errol Morris's new documentary The Pigeon Tunnel, which explores Le Carré's life and work, his sons Simon and Stephen Cornwell revealed that they are also keen for more episodes.
“We all still love to fantasise about Night Manager 2," Simon explained, adding: "And to this day people still ask us about it. Personally, I’d love there to be one, but Dad only wrote one book [of that story]."
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Le Carré – real name David Cornwell – passed away at the age of 89 in December 2020, but letters published in the 2022 book A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré revealed that he had had several long meetings with the BBC about a possible sequel towards the end of his life.
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In one of the letters, he wrote that he hoped to "bring together the old gang, minus Tom Hollander, whose part I so carelessly dispatched".
Interestingly, it was reported earlier this year that a second season was in development as a co-production between the BBC and Prime Video, with Hiddleston set to return in the lead role as former military officer Jonathan Pine.
In February, Deadline reported that a new season would once again be written by David Farr, although there have been no further announcements since, and the BBC and Prime Video both declined to comment when approached by RadioTimes.com at the time.
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Patrick Cremona is the Senior Film Writer at Radio Times, and looks after all the latest film releases both in cinemas and on streaming. He has been with the website since October 2019, and in that time has interviewed a host of big name stars and reviewed a diverse range of movies.
