‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ Team On Putting “Ordinary People In These Extraordinary Situations” – Contenders TV: The Nominees
deadline.comPrime Video‘s freshman spy series Mr. & Mrs. Smith is coming out of the gate with 16 Emmy nominations including Best Drama Actor and Actress for leads Donald Glover and Maya Erskine and the main event, Best Drama Series.
In a reimagination of the 2005 film that starred Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, co-creators Glover and showrunner Francesca Sloane — who are Emmy-nominated for Best Writing for a Drama Series — wanted the show to be its own thing and not a copy of anything else.
Sloane was joined by director and executive producer Hiro Murai, casting director Carmen Cuba and composer David Fleming for Deadline’s Contenders TV: The Nominees on Saturday. “People keep saying that I coined this — this should go on record that Hiro coined this,” Sloane said. “Our season of Smiths are these C-minus students in an AP course.
I think that sort of travels through the entire season as opposed to the film, which is a lot of fun, but it’s super glossy and stylized.
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