We are finally given our first look at Tom Hiddleston in the title role of THE NIGHT MANAGER, which airs on the BBC in the UK and AMC in the US in Spring 2016.
The upcoming TV series stars Hiddleston as former British soldier Jonathan Pine in the TV adaptation of John le Carré‘s novel by the same name and we can see the British actor in character in the latest photo above courtesy of Entertainment Weekly.
Pine has left the military and is attempting to live a quiet life as a night manager at a luxurious hotel. Of course, that was the plan up until coming into possession of some top-secret documents.
The book has been adapted into a six-episode miniseries that will air on the BBC in the U.K. and on AMC this April, starring Tom Hiddleston as MI-6 field agent and strong-silent type Jonathan Pine. He is joined by Hugh Laurie as Richard Roper, a morally ambiguous weapons dealer whom Pine is tasked with bringing down.
THE NIGHT MANAGER has been updated, as the producers have changed the gender of Pine’s MI-6 handler, Leonard Burr, into Angela Burr, played by Olivia Colman. There was also a slight change in the script as Colman was pregnant during filming and the scripts were adapted to make Burr a mother-to-be.
Hiddleston told EW just how well the cast got on and particularly Hiddleston and Laurie who formed a bromance of their own during the project’s development and over the course of the intensive 75-day shoot, which took them to Morocco, Majorca, Switzerland, and London.
“[Laurie] can’t address me by my real name,” Hiddleston says. “I sign off emails to him as ‘Pine,’ and he addresses me as ‘Pine.’ I don’t know why, but it makes us laugh.”
With the new year swiftly approaching, we don’t have long to wait until the series commences in the Spring – and no doubt its first trailer will be arriving shortly.
