Loki vs Dr. House? Sounds fantastic to me. THR is reporting Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie will star in an upcoming six or eight-part miniseries for AMC. Called The Night Manager, the drama will be based on the 1993 John le Carré (A Most Wanted Man, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) novel of the same name. AMC is developing the miniseries with the BBC, and it’ll be written by HANNA scribe David Farr.
No word on what Hiddleston and Laurie’s roles will be on the miniseries, but they will likely be playing the two leads: Jonathan Pine, “a British soldier turned luxurious hotel night auditor,” and Richard Onslow Roper, “an English black marketeer who specializes in weapons.”
Book synopsis from Amazon:
Enter the new world of post Cold War espionage. Penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers and drug smugglers who have risen to unthinkable power and wealth. The sinister master of them all is an untouchable Englishman named Roper. Slipping into this maze of peril is a former British soldier, Jonathan Pine, who knows Roper well enough to hate him more than any man on earth. Now personal vengeance is only part of why Pine is willing to help the men at Whitehall try to bring Roper down…
This will be the biggest TV role to date for Tom Hiddleston, although the actor has appeared on the British black comedy Suburban Shootout and the U.K. crime series Wallander. I would never say no to more Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie, and I’m definitely interested in checking out AMC’s The Night Manager.