Pitt and Paramount take on 'The Night Manager'

Another day another novel bought up for adaption, not that I have an issue with this as it's just like an original idea turned into a movie, only it goes through a hardcover and paperback form first. Variety reports that it is Brad Pitt and Paramount on the espionage trail this time.

Paramount Pictures has acquired bigscreen rights to John Le Carre's espionage thriller "The Night Manager."

Brad Pitt's Plan B is producing.

The story centers on the night manager of a European hotel who is recruited by intelligence agents to infiltrate the network of a dangerous international arms dealer.

Robert Edwards, who wrote and directed the 2006 political satire "Land of the Blind," has been tapped to adapt. He is a former Nicholls fellow and was an intelligence officer during the Gulf War.

British author Le Carre, who penned "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold," has seen a number of his espionage novels turned into film and TV projects including 2005's "The Constant Gardener." "Night Manager," first published in 1993, is one of Le Carre's longer and more critically lauded works.

Sounds like it could be a pretty nifty thriller, Le Carre's work has not been one Ive delved into but he seems to have a decent respect within the genre, I just wonder if Pitt is going to star given his missus has her own espionage flick 'Salt' on the go right now, the titular role certainly sounds like one that would suit Pitt.