Donald Glover and Maya Erskine (PEN15) step into some major shoes in the first trailer for Amazon Prime’s upcoming reboot of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. The first look at the upcoming series adaptation of the spy vs. spy 2005 original starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as married assassins after the same target — and eventually each other — finds heroes John and Jane posing as mild-mannered software engineers as they fly around the globe taking out targets.
Dramatically scored by Shirley Bassey’s version of the Love Story theme “Love Story (Where Do I Begin?),” the two-minute trailer introduces us to the couple in a blaze of gunfire as Glover and Erskine meet cute in a restaurant where she asks him, “so have you ever killed anyone?” Glover, unconvincingly, stammers, “no, not really.”
The pair then set off on a global trek, guns in hand, as they pretend to be a happily married couple while the bodies pile up and they take a helicopter ride over the ocean, their faces caked in dried blood. “What do you think happens if we fail,” Mrs. Smith asks near the end of the clip. “Our marriage?,” Mr. Smith responds. “Our mission,” she says ominously.
Not much about the plot of the eight-episode series slated to launch on Prime Video on Feb. 2 has been revealed, other than the log line, “Meet The Smiths: Two strangers, John and Jane, who have given up their lives and identities to be thrown together as partners – both in espionage and in marriage.”
In addition to starring, Glover is also a producer on the series that will boast an all-star supporting cast featuring Paul Dano, Parker Posey, Wagner Moura, John Turturro, Ron Perlman, Michaela Coel, Eiza Gonzalez, Alexander Skarsgard, Sharon Horgan and Sarah Paulson.
Watch the Mr. & Mrs. Smith trailer below.
