No Time To Die Proves Amazon's Mr & Mrs Smith Could Have Been Great
Prime Video’s upcoming Mr & Mrs. Smith series lost Phoebe Waller-Bridge, but the star’s work on No Time to Dieproves she was a perfect fit for the show. Prime Video’s Mr & Mrs. Smith TV series is set to reboot the 2005 action-comedy of the same name. The movie follows a pair of unhappily married assassins who are both hiding their professions from their partner — a secret that becomes a much bigger problem when the husband and wife are assigned to kill each other.
The Mr & Mrs. Smith series was originally set to star Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Donald Glover, both critical darlings thanks to their respective comedy-drama projects, Fleabag and Atlanta. However, Waller-Bridge has since dropped out of the project due to creative differences, meaning this small-screen reboot of the 2005 action-comedy will instead star Maya Erskine alongside Glover. This is an unfortunate loss for the show, as Waller-Bridge’s work on director Cary Fukunaga’s No Time to Die proves she was perfect for the project.
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Despite how lofty an aim reinventing 007 for 2020 was, No Time To Die effectively pulled this feat off with a James Bond adventure that was both a classic entry into the franchise and subtle subversion of many outdated elements of the series. Phoebe Waller-Bridge was only one of four screenwriters to work on the movie, making her exit from Amazon’s Mr & Mrs. Smith series dismaying. The writer/actor left the show due to creative differences, and No Time To Die proves that she could have helped update another spy movie with a potentially cliched premise. The far-fetched idea of two spouses hiding secret second lives as hitmen from each other could easily become
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