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 can 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 searching for 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 going through a brand new relationship milestone. Their complicated cowl story turns into much more sophisticated once 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 distinct story and totally different characters every season within the vein of Fargo, which Sloane had labored on, she responded, succinctly, “possibly.”
That has been a rumored formulation 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 totally different characters, not replacements for those performed by Glover and Erskine in Season 1. That signifies that Glover and Erskine might conceivably reprise their roles in some form or kind, 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 america at the moment. Entered as a drama sequence on the 2024 Emmys, it landed 16 nominations, together with Excellent Drama Sequence and Lead Actor/Actress In a Drama Sequence for Glover and Erskine, profitable two trophies, together with Visitor Actress In A Drama Sequence for Michaela Coel. The selection suggests some continuity between seasons within the vein of The White Lotus.
Thatcher is a part of the principle forged of Showtime’s Yellowjackets, which simply returned for a 3rd season. She additionally did arcs on The Ebook of Boba Fett and Chicago Med.