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mr & mrs smith
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The streaming reboot of a marriage-wrecking blockbuster that’s been in the works for 15 years unveils first footage

And it's already faced some issues of its own.

Even though it was a perfectly serviceable and highly successful action-packed blockbuster that scored over half a billion dollars at the box office, the lasting legacy of 2005’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith is the tabloid fervor surrounding stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

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To be fair, the speculation proved to be right on the money when the former ended up splitting from then-wife Jennifer Aniston and eventually getting hitched to his co-star and raising a family together, but Prime Video will be hoping the specter of its A-list past doesn’t haunt the upcoming episodic reboot, which has faced some troubles of its own.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith has been trying to make its way to the small screen for 15 years, with Martin Henderson and Jordana Brewster starring in a 2007 pilot that didn’t get ordered to series, with Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge spearheading the streaming version when it was first announced.

However, the Fleabag creator dropped out to be replaced by Maya Erskine, with the first footage arriving today to confirm a November release window.

Glover’s name always tends to be a mark of quality, so it’ll be interesting to see if Mr. & Mrs. Smith keeps his hot streak alive, especially when it’s got a mountain to climb in order to erase memories of its predecessor as the definitive version of the story.

That being said, do we really need yet another do-over of a well-known brand taking up airtime on a major platform? Arguably not, but we’d be happy to eat those words should the reboot prove to be worth the time and investments its taken.


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