A second season of The Night Manager could be edging closer, with Tom Hiddleston set to return.
Since premiering in 2016, rumours of a follow-up have been rife, but nothing was set in stone in the intervening seven years.
However, as reported by Deadline, Amazon Prime Video and the BBC are set to collaborate on a new batch of episodes, with the proposals involving a two-season order.
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The new season will see Hiddleston reprise his role as Jonathan Pine, whilst David Farr will once again be penning the script. Filming will begin later this year, with locations including London and South America.
The plot will reportedly see Pine be informed of Richard Roper’s (Hugh Laurie) death, and subsequently face up to a "new" and "deadlier" threat.
It is currently unknown who will be on directing duties, but season one boss Susanne Bier previously ruled herself out of the running, saying: "I’m not doing Night Manager 2. I wasn't sure that I would do my very best work the second time round – so I decided that I should probably not do it and have somebody [else direct it].
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"I think part of it is that as a director you have to have a crazy huge challenge,” she continued. “I don't necessarily think that if a challenge becomes 'Do something different from what you did last time' – I don't think that's an organic challenge.
"I just got worried that I would repeat myself or do something which wasn't as great, but I think somebody else is going to do an amazing job out of it," she concluded.
The first season proved to be a major critical and commercial success, with Hiddleston, Laurie and Olivia Colman all winning Golden Globe awards for their respective performances.
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