Paramount Pictures has attained big screen rights to John Le Carre’s espionage thriller “The Night Manager.”

Brad Pitt’s Plan B is producing.

The espionage story follows 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, is signed on to adapt. He is a former Nicholls fellow and a former intelligence officer during the Gulf War.