Casting: Tom Hiddleston Is 'The Night Manager,' Jeff Daniels Joins Ridley Scott's 'The Martian' And More

We're in a mini renaissance for adaptations of John Le Carré books, with "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "A Most Wanted Man" arriving over the last few years. But the next project derived from the works of the spy master will head to the small screen. Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie will topline the limited series "The Night Manager."  David Farr ("Hanna") will pen this one that follows "Jonathan Pine, a British soldier turned luxurious hotel night auditor. Pine crosses paths with a French-Arab woman named Sophie with ties to Richard Onslow Roper, an English black marketer who specializes in weapons. The woman provides Pine with incriminating documents, which he forwards to a friend in British intelligence. After Sophie winds up dead, Pine works with intelligence operatives and goes undercover as part of a sting against Roper to avenge Sophie's death." This one is in search of a U.S. network home, but considering it has...