Yellowjackets‘ Sophie Thatcher is in negotiations to star reverse Mark Eydelshteyn in Season 2 of Prime Video’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith, sources inform Deadline.
If her deal closes, the duo could be enjoying the eponymous Mr. & Mrs. Smith. As Deadline has reported, Billie Eilish had been approached for the feminine lead however that didn’t materialize because the Oscar-winning musician is touring.
Amazon MGM Studios, which co-produces the sequence with New Regency, had been in search of an actor and actress of their 20s to play John and Jane, respectively, in Season 2 with one-year offers.
Created by Donald Glover and Francesca Sloane, Season 1 of Mr. and Mrs. Smith adopted two lonely strangers (Glover, Maya Erskine) who need to pose as a married couple as they each start new careers as spies, taking over new aliases, Mr. and Mrs. John and Jane Smith. Now hitched, John and Jane navigate a high-risk mission each week whereas additionally dealing with a brand new relationship milestone. Their complicated cowl story turns into much more difficult after they catch actual emotions for one another. What’s riskier: espionage or marriage?
The Season 1 finale, which Sloane described to Deadline as a “nod to a’ 70s cinema cliffhanger,” concerned John and Jane getting right into a gunfight, leaving it unclear whether or not the 2 survive.
When requested in a Deadline interview whether or not Mr. & Mrs. Smith could also be taking the anthology sequence route with a unique story and completely different characters every season within the vein of Fargo, which Sloane had labored on, she responded, succinctly, “perhaps.”
That has been a rumored components for Amazon’s tackle the New Regency-produced 2005 film starring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, with one-year commitments for the leads every season.
The brand new Jane and John are believed to be completely different characters, not replacements for those performed by Glover and Erskine in Season 1. That implies that Glover and Erskine may conceivably reprise their roles in some form or type, whether or not their characters are useless or alive. (The setup of Mr. & Mrs. Smith makes issues complicated with a number of Janes and Johns featured on the espionage-driven present.)
Sloane returns as govt producer and showrunner for Season 2; Glover is again as govt producer. Mr. & Mrs. Smith is produced by New Regency and Amazon MGM Studios.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith premiered in February and have become a Prime 5 new sequence debut for Prime Video in the USA at the moment. Entered as a drama sequence on the 2024 Emmys, it landed 16 nominations, together with Excellent Drama Collection and Lead Actor/Actress In a Drama Collection for Glover and Erskine, successful two trophies, together with Visitor Actress In A Drama Collection for Michaela Coel. The selection suggests some continuity between seasons within the vein of The White Lotus.
Thatcher is a part of the primary solid of Showtime’s Yellowjackets, which simply returned for a 3rd season. She additionally did arcs on The Ebook of Boba Fett and Chicago Med.
