Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge to Create and Star in Mr. and Mrs. Smith Series - IGN - IGN

A Mr. and Mrs. Smith series is currently in development at Amazon, based on the 2005 film starring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, and will star Donald Glover and Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge.Glover and Waller-Bridge will also co-create and executive produce the series with showrunner/EP Francesca Sloane (Atlanta, Fargo). Mr. and Mrs. Smith will premiere exclusively on Prime Video, in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios, released the following in a statement: “Talk about the dream team! 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. We’re thrilled to be working with them, and with such great partners at New Regency.”

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The 2005 film, directed by Doug Liman, follows the explosive adventures of a married couple who discover they are assassins belonging to competing espionage agencies. Glover and Waller-Bridge starred together, once before, in Solo: A Star Wars Story where he played gambler Lando Calrissian and she voiced Lando's droid companion L3-37, who, by the end of the film, had her consciousness uploaded into the Millennium Falcon.Back in 2007, a Mr. and Mrs. Smith sequel series was in development for ABC, and was to pick up the story six months after the events in the movie. A pilot was filmed, starring Jordana Brewster and Martin Henderson, but the series was never picked up.As of a year ago, Donald Glover's FX series Atlanta was expected to air both its third and fourth season in 2021, though it's not currently known if the pandemic dramatically delayed the Atlanta production that was supposed to happen in 2020.

After creating and starring in Fleabag, and then developing the series Killing Eve, Waller-Bridge also contributed to the No Time to Die script. No Time to Die, after many delays, and also almost taking a streaming deal, is currently scheduled to hit theaters on October 8, 2021.

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