The Night Manager

At one stage much earlier, this production was going to be a major cinema movie with a theatrical release with Dustin Hoffman starring and the late Sydney Pollack directing. The pair previously collaborated on Tootsie (1982).

The mini-series was filmed in six countries: [in alphabetical order] Egypt, Morocco, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.

In 2016, lead actor Tom Hiddleston, was extensively rumored to become the next James Bond in the official film franchise after Daniel Craig. Moreover, the director of 'The Night Manager' (2016), Susanne Bier, was also touted as a possibility to direct Bond 25.