We thought there couldn’t be a more appealing on-screen pairing than Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie… but we were so wrong.
Emmy winners Donald Glover (Atlanta) and Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) are joining forces for a new Amazon Prime series based on the 2005 film Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the streamer announced on Friday. Glover and Waller-Bridge will co-star in the series together and co-create it as well, along with Francesca Sloane (Fargo), who will serve as showrunner.
“Talk about the dream team!” Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke gushed in a statement. “Donald and Phoebe are two of the most talented creators and performers in the world. It’s truly a dream for us, as it will be for our global audience, to have these two forces of nature collaborating as a powerhouse creative team. Mr. and Mrs. Smith is an iconic property, and we can’t wait to see how Donald, Phoebe and Francesca make it their own.”
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The original Mr. and Mrs. Smith film, which hit theaters in 2005, starred Pitt and Jolie as a married pair of secret assassins who are hired to kill each other. A pilot for a TV reboot starring Jordana Brewster and Martin Henderson was filmed in 2007 by ABC, but didn’t get picked up to series.
The multi-talented Glover, who also performs music under the name Childish Gambino, currently stars in the FX comedy Atlanta, which he also created. He won the Emmy for Lead Actor in a Comedy in 2017 for Atlanta, which is expected to return to FX for its third season later this year.
Waller-Bridge starred in and created the Amazon comedy Fleabag, which wrapped up a two-season run in 2019; she won three Emmys that year for her writing, acting and producing on Season 2. Waller-Bridge also created the BBC America thriller Killing Eve, which is set to enter its fourth season. (Plus, she voiced L3-37, the droid companion to Glover’s Lando Calrissian in 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story.)
