Paramount and Brad Pitt’s Plan B are teaming up to produce a big-screen version of John Le Carre’s novel, The Night Manager.
First published in 1993, Le Carre’s thriller concerns Jonathan Pine, a night manager at a top Cairo hotel who gets mixed up in a web of intrigue when he agrees to spy on a dangerous arms dealer.
The likes of The Constant Gardener or Richard Burton’s **The Spy Who Came In From The Cold **aside, Le Carre adaptations have been pretty thin on the ground – and, when they have made it to the big screen, they’ve been patchy in quality. Let’s hope that The Night Manager bucks that trend.
At the moment, Pitt’s only producing the movie. And one of his first acts has been to bring on Robert Edwards, himself an intelligence veteran, to adapt the screenplay.
But his role in Terrence Malick’s The Tree Of Life shows that Pitt isn’t scared of appearing in movies made by his company, so watch this space, for it seems to us that The Night Manager may well be a role that has Pitt written all over it.