Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge are rebooting the spy comedy 'Mr & Mrs Smith' for Amazon
- Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Donald Glover are creating a "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" TV reboot.
- The show will premiere on Amazon Prime in 2022.
- The pair will also star in the show.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Donald Glover will star in an Amazon Prime Video TV show based on the 2005 spy comedy "Mr. and Mrs. Smith."
The original movie, which starred Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, follows two married assassins who are secretly employed by competing spy agencies and are ordered to kill each other.
Waller-Bridge and Glover will help to create the show as executive producers alongside Francesca Sloane ("Atlanta" and "Fargo") who will act as showrunner. The show is currently set for a 2022 premiere.
"Talk about the dream team! Donald and Phoebe are two of the most talented creators and performers in the world," Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios, said in a statement. "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."
The pair previously worked together on 2018's "Star Wars" spin-off movie "Solo: A Star Wars Story" and both have since found acclaim in the world of television with Waller-Bridge's comedy "Fleabag" picking up six Emmy awards across two seasons and Glover's "Atlanta" netting five.
Donald Glover first teased the reboot with a now-expired video on his Instagram story, which was later reposted by Jennifer Salke.
The original "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" movie was directed by Doug Liman and was a massive box-office hit, taking $500 million worldwide. The movie was also famously rumored to have sparked Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's real-life romance. At the time of the movie's filming, Pitt and his then-wife Jennifer Aniston split up and he began dating Jolie.