Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge are remaking 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' for Amazon

Bill Keveney, USA TODAY
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Emmy winners Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge are joining their considerable talents to remake "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" into an Amazon series.

Glover ("Atlanta") and Waller-Bridge ("Fleabag") will play the title characters and serve as executive producers, Amazon Studios announced Friday. The 2005 film memorably paired Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, who revealed their romantic relationship months after the film premiered.

Glover and Waller-Bridge teamed up previously in 2018's "Solo: A Star Wars Story," with Glover as Lando Calrissian and Waller-Bridge as droid L3-37.

“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,” Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke said in a statement.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge, seen accepting a Screen Actors Guild award for "Fleabag," will produce and star with Donald Glover in a TV series version of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," the 2005 film famed for pairing Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, seen accepting a Screen Actors Guild award for "Fleabag," will produce and star with Donald Glover in a TV series version of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," the 2005 film famed for pairing Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

The series, produced by Amazon Studios and New Regency, will be available to Amazon subscribers in more than 240 countries and territories. New Regency produced the original film.

Friday's announcement did not include a premiere date or the number of episodes that will be produced.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in a scene from the motion picture Mr. and Mrs. Smith from 2005.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in a scene from the motion picture Mr. and Mrs. Smith from 2005.

The 2005 action film, which grossed $487 million worldwide, featured Pitt and Jolie as a bored married couple surprised to learn that they are each assassins working for competing organizations and assigned to kill each other. (After revealing their relationship following the release of the film, Pitt and Jolie were together until they separated in 2016. They later divorced.)

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Both Waller-Bridge and Glover are talented multi-hyphenates, with each serving as creator, executive producer and star of their respective series, Fleabag" and "Atlanta."

Waller-Bridge, an executive producer of "Killing Eve," won three Emmys for "Fleabag" and Glover, who starred in "Community" and also is an acclaimed musical performer, took home two Emmys for "Atlanta."

Francesca Sloane, who has worked on "Atlanta" and "Fargo," is a co-creator and executive producer of the upcoming series.

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