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It came to David Farr<\/strong> in a dream. While asleep at his UK home in 2020, the creator and executive producer conceived a way forward for The Night Manager<\/a>,<\/em> his 2016 adaptation of John le Carr\u00e9\u2019s novel, starring Tom Hiddleston<\/strong><\/a> as a luxury-hotel manager who goes undercover for MI6 to infiltrate a criminal arms-dealing enterprise. When he woke up the next morning, still foggy with visions for the second installment, Farr turned on the morning news to discover that le Carr\u00e9 had died in the night at age 89<\/a>.<\/p>\n That\u2019s the inception tale, according to le Carr\u00e9\u2019s son, Simon Cornwell,<\/strong> who, alongside his younger brother, Stephen,<\/strong> runs the Ink Factory, which owns and produces all of their father\u2019s intellectual property. Sitting socially distanced in Cornwell\u2019s garden, Farr outlined his plan for season two of the Emmy Award\u2013winning series, all six episodes of which premiere exclusively on Prime Video worldwide, but on BBC and BBC iPlayer in the UK. Vanity Fair<\/em> has the exclusive first-look images of the series\u2019 return, although the release date is still top-secret intel.<\/p>\n Despite his grief, or perhaps because of it, the elder Cornwell wanted to explore the current state of affairs through le Carr\u00e9\u2019s morally searching characters<\/a>. \u201cNot a day passes that I don\u2019t think about my dad with sadness,\u201d he tells VF.<\/em> \u201cBut at the same time, it can be liberating. When a lot of writers pass, their estates contain all kinds of strict rules. Thou shalt not change this, or that. And my dad\u2019s letter said, \u2018You know what I stand for, respect what I stand for, but only you can figure out where to go next.\u2019 And that is sort of the invitation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n