After Killing Eve, Phoebe Waller-Bridge goes back again to the contract killer well with her upcoming TV re-boot of the 2005 Brad Pitt/Angelina actioner Mr & Mrs Smith.
Waller-Bridge will write and co-star with Atlanta’s Donald Glover, who also featured with her in the underwhelming Star Wars prequel Solo (2018). Could this be third time lucky for a TV take on the uxorious assassins?
We’ve already had a 1996 series that predated the movie (starring Scott Bakula and Maria Bello) and a 2007 show that never went beyond Doug Liman’s (who also directed the 2005 picture) pilot movie – with Martin Henderson and Jordana Brewster as the titular couple.
Over recent years there’s been a growing trend for dramas based on the exploits of contract killers – in fact it’s now approaching the ‘missing child’ trope in ubiquity. In addition to the Mr and Mrs Smith remake, there are two new series in the works; Hulu are taking a crack at an adaptation of the video game Hitman (this after two failed movies), whilst Starz are prepping the John Wick companion piece The Continental.
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