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30.03.2023 - 16:25 / deadline.com
Netflix yesterday gave The Night Agent a quick Season 2 pickup only six days after the action-thriller from creator Shawn Ryan and Sony Pictures TV launched with the third-best premiere week of viewing for a new series — only behind Wednesday and Dahmer — putting the series starring Gabriel Basso on track to potentially land in the Top 5 of Netflix’s all-time most popular series.
“I’m still getting my head around it,” Ryan, creator of The Shield creator and showrunner of S.W.A.T., said. “I’ve had a long career and certainly some success stories, but nothing quite like this in terms of intense, immediate fan reaction. Almost doesn’t feel real.”
The renewal comes exactly two years after The Night Agent, inspired by Matthew Quirk’s novel, was pitched to the streamer, which initially was not very impressed. A few things from that original pitch changed before the series reached the air, mainly, taking out the Secret Service storyline from the pilot script and delaying its introduction to Episode 3, as well as ditching Italy as a main location.
As Deadline has reported, Ryan announced in December 2020 that he was adapting The Night Agent, which he listed in tweets about his favorite books of the year under “Books I Read, Decided To Adapt For Television And May Have Already Finished Writing The Pilot Episode.” He combined the novel’s concept and characters with an idea he’d been working on about Secret Service people protecting the daughter of the Vice President while she’s at college, and wrote a spec script in five days.
That original pilot script included the main Night Agent storyline of Peter (Basso), a low-level FBI agent manning a White House emergency spy phone who gets a call from a terrified civilian, Rose
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