ABC Passes on the Mr. and Mrs. Smith TV Series
By Nix | May 30, 2007 (7:03 pm) | More: Mr and Mrs Smith TV Series, TV News
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.







Don’t forget that there was a (short-lived) TV series called Mr. and Mrs. Smith, starring Scott Bakula and Maria Bello, on CBS, in 1996.
True enough. When I originally heard about Kinberg’s “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” movie, I thought they were adapting that series. There are an awful lot of similarities, and I’m surprised we never heard about any type of lawsuit or creative disputes between the two projects…