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Pseudo Mr. & Mrs. Smith Prequel On the Way Without Pitt/Jolie
by Ethan Anderton
February 8, 2010
Source: Vulture
And we're back again with our (at least) daily announcement of a reboot, sequel, prequel; this time word comes from NY Mag's Vulture that Fox's Regency Enterprises is moving forward with Mr. & Mrs. Jones, a pseudo-prequel to the 2005 action comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith which spawned the paparazzi's even more intense obsession with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. However, the flash to the past will not feature Pitt and Jolie, but rather is sort of an origin story of a similar but differently named couple, showing how a pair of twenty-something spies are set up as a fake married couple when they graduate agency training. How fun.
As much as I enjoyed Mr. & Mrs. Smith, this feels cheap to me. Mr. and Mrs. Smith didn't know they were spies when they were married, so that added a decent level of comedy to the fun action. All this concept does is set up a fake marriage between spies, likely with the idea that they'll really fall in love, but have marriage problems while working undercover. Seems like a lot of the potential for some humor is already going to be covered by Tina Fey and Steve Carell in Date Night, the only difference being trained spies vs. innocent civilians in the wrong place at the wrong time. Of course there's the chance it could turn out all right (mostly dependent on who they actually cast in the project), but I can't help but find more than the intended similarities between this concept and Vulture's reference to Dumb & Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd.
Obviously, the real motivator here is money, and not only making it, but spending less of it to get this made. A real sequel bringing back Pitt and Jolie with lots of expensive action would be quite the costly endeavor. But you'd think with as much as the studios love to bank on safe tentpoles that will draw in a crowd, Mr. & Mrs. Smith (which raked in $478 million worldwide) with Jolie and Pitt would be well worth the cost. But this is just another in Hollywood's trend of extending familiar titles, without all the expensive familiar faces, for better or worse. Stay tuned to see who will be playing Mr. and Mrs. Jones in this. Anyone interested?
12 Comments
1
P A S S Pitt and Jolie were the only reason I watched the movie, without them its fail.
Xerxex on Feb 8, 2010
2
why are they even making this movie? jeez can't they get there own ideas instead of screwing another original movie
Spider94 on Feb 8, 2010
3
I really liked Mr. & Mrs. Smith but this? Seriously? Wow talk about trying to cash in on the name...
harm on Feb 8, 2010
4
this is not reboot,remake or prequel.i think either someone misunderstud or someone is very,very stupid.mr. and mrs. smith will have a sequel cause pitt and jolie hired Kinberg to write a sequel. this is completly another story that they made connection to mr and mrs smith because of its popularity and similar plot. mr and mrs jones is more like this new show undercovers that is about to premiere from j,j, abrams.
kure on Feb 8, 2010
5
Boooooo!
Black Dynamite on Feb 8, 2010
6
you ended the first paragraph spot on: How fun. No emotion. No excitement. Nothing. That is what the movie will turn out to be, a complete waste of time.
Scott McHenry on Feb 8, 2010
7
Dido what #2 said.
Cody on Feb 8, 2010
8
Booooooo! Please don't make this movie without Brangelina! It will be a huge failure.
Black Dynamite on Feb 8, 2010
9
something is happening here, but you don't know what it is... do you, Mister Jones?
Epleterte on Feb 8, 2010
10
#4 hit the nail on the head. Of course you can report on the constant barrage of reboot/sequel/prequel when you stretch this announcement to mean prequel. Sure, the concept (and clearly the name) certainly begs comparisons to Mr. and Mrs. Smith, but why say that they're related based on that? We may as well call Snakes on a Train a sequel too.
Buzz on Feb 9, 2010
11
Oh my God! they just need a hard ass-whoppin'. Give us movies with some fresh ideas PLEASE
Prequel-hater on Feb 9, 2010
12
No.
Nick and the big bad B on Aug 20, 2010
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