It’s a Rev reunion as Olivia Colman signs on for new BBC drama, The Night Manager.
The three-time Bafta-winning actress will join Tom Hollander in BBC One’s small-screen adaptation of John le Carre’s 1993 spy novel of the same name.
Australian actress Elizabeth Debicki, who has starred in The Great Gatsby, will also appear in the show, alongside Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Susanne Bier will direct the “contemporary” mini-series about “love, loss and revenge”, which will start filming in coming months.
Olivia – who is pregnant with her third child – is to play an intelligence officer who recruits British soldier Jonathan Pine, played by Tom Hiddleston, to navigate the shadowy corners of Whitehall and Washington where “an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade”.
Jonathan has to become a criminal in order to fulfil his mission of infiltrating the inner circle of a dangerous arms dealer (Laurie), which includes his girlfriend (Debicki) and an associate (Hollander).
The BBC version, which will be shown in 2016, marks the first television adaptation of a le Carre novel in more than 20 years.
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