Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge To Star & Co-Create Amazon’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith Series

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge will reunite, star and co-create the series adaptation of Amazon’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith. They previously starred together in the 2018 Star Wars anthology film Solo as Lando Calrissian and his droid companion and navigator L3-37.

The 2005 film was directed by Doug Liman from a script written by Simon Kinberg. It centered on an upper-class married couple (played by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie) who are surprised to learn that they are assassins at competing agencies and have been assigned to kill each other.

The series reboot, which was previously attempted in 2007 at ABC, is set to be created by the Atlanta maverick and the Fleabag Emmy winner alongside Francesca Sloane, who previously worked with Glover on his acclaimed FX series and is under an overall deal with Amazon, as is Waller-Bridge. Sloane will serve as showrunner on the series, which is being executive produced New Regency’s Yariv Milchan and Michael Schaefer and Wells Street Films’ Jenny Robins.

“Having had the pleasure of successful collaborations with the incredibly talented Donald Glover, most recently on Guava Island, we all started talking about other projects to do together and when he suggested the idea of a new take and iteration on the New Regency film, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, we jumped at the chance to get going right away,” Milchan and Schaefer said in a statement. “Adding Phoebe and her company Wells Street Films as a collaborator and co-star takes everything up another level and makes the project worthy of a reimagining for both new audiences and past fans of the original film. We are so excited to be working with Donald, Phoebe, Francesca and the entire team at Amazon Studios.”