They may have made the perfect team as L3-37 and Lando Calrissian in Solo: A Star Wars Story, but the planned reunion of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Donald Glover in the straight-to-series show Mr and Mrs Smith has sadly gone south as creative differences has seen Waller-Bridge amicably leave the show.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge has exited the straight-to-series adaptation of the Brad Pitt-Angelina Jolie 2005 New Regency film. Sources say that the Fleabag Emmy winner had a different creative vision for the series than Donald Glover, with whom she was poised to star alongside.
Glover, who came up with the idea and brought it to his friend and Solo: A Star Wars Story co-star, remains attached as co-creator, exec producer and star. Francesca Sloane, a collaborator with Glover on FX’s Atlanta, remains co-creator, showrunner and exec producer on the series via her overall deal with Amazon. New Regency’s Yariv Milchan and Michael Schaefer also exec produce.
Credit: Stuart C. Wilson; Photos: Getty
Sources say Waller-Bridge and Glover remain friends following what was described as an amicable split. Waller-Bridge’s role will now be recast as the series remains on track for a 2022 debut. Writing on the series is currently under way, with production expected to also begin next year.
The news comes seven months after the teaming of the two Emmy winners for the update of the action-thriller created a frenzy on social media.
Waller-Bridge is currently in production on Indiana Jones 5 and recently contributed to the script of the upcoming James Bond film, No Time to Die. Waller-Bridge also exec produces the upcoming final season of AMC/BBC America’s Killing Eve.
Glover is in postproduction on the third season of FX’s Atlanta and is in production on the fourth season having written all the scripts himself. The third season of the Emmy-winning comedy is expected to return in the first half of 2022, with season four possibly months afterward.
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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They may have made the perfect team as L3-37 and Lando Calrissian in Solo: A Star Wars Story, but the planned reunion of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Donald Glover in the straight-to-series show Mr and Mrs Smith has sadly gone south as creative differences has seen Waller-Bridge amicably leave the show.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge has exited the straight-to-series adaptation of the Brad Pitt-Angelina Jolie 2005 New Regency film. Sources say that the Fleabag Emmy winner had a different creative vision for the series than Donald Glover, with whom she was poised to star alongside.
Glover, who came up with the idea and brought it to his friend and Solo: A Star Wars Story co-star, remains attached as co-creator, exec producer and star. Francesca Sloane, a collaborator with Glover on FX’s Atlanta, remains co-creator, showrunner and exec producer on the series via her overall deal with Amazon. New Regency’s Yariv Milchan and Michael Schaefer also exec produce.
Credit: Stuart C. Wilson; Photos: Getty
Sources say Waller-Bridge and Glover remain friends following what was described as an amicable split. Waller-Bridge’s role will now be recast as the series remains on track for a 2022 debut. Writing on the series is currently under way, with production expected to also begin next year.
The news comes seven months after the teaming of the two Emmy winners for the update of the action-thriller created a frenzy on social media.
Waller-Bridge is currently in production on Indiana Jones 5 and recently contributed to the script of the upcoming James Bond film, No Time to Die. Waller-Bridge also exec produces the upcoming final season of AMC/BBC America’s Killing Eve.
Glover is in postproduction on the third season of FX’s Atlanta and is in production on the fourth season having written all the scripts himself. The third season of the Emmy-winning comedy is expected to return in the first half of 2022, with season four possibly months afterward.
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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