ABC Passes on the Mr. and Mrs. Smith TV Series

How can any network turn down a series based on a movie starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie? Isn’t that like turning down Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie? Well, okay, maybe that’s a bit much. Anyways, The Hollywood Reporter (via) is reporting that ABC has passed on the TV series version of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” (to star Jordana Brewster and Martin Henderson), and now the movie’s original creators, who also wrote and directed the TV pilot, Doug Liman and Simon Kinberg, are shopping the series to other networks. How bad could the pilot be that ABC passed on it? I’m pretty sure this show is going to land somewhere and make someone a lot of money. Sure, Brewster and Henderson aren’t Pitt and Jolie, but it’s the show’s concept that should sell, right? Then again…

The 2005 original movie starred Pitt and Jolie as husband and wife who discovers, much to their chagrin, that both have been living double lives as contract killers.

It is believed that both Jordana Brewster (“Annapolis”) and Martin Henderson (“Torque”) are still attached to the series should it get pick up by another network.