[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for the Mr. & Mrs. Smith Season 1 finale.]
Mr. & Mrs. Smith Season 1 ended on a significant cliffhanger that left the destiny of its titular couple hanging within the stability. The Season 2 renewal, which got here months after Season 1 debuted in full on Prime Video, confirmed that the cliffhanger will probably be addressed in some kind. However the renewal announcement notably didn’t affirm if stars Donald Glover and Maya Erskine can be again within the second season. Within the time since, there was a report that the unique Smiths wouldn’t return and that Season 2 would shift focus onto a brand new pair of spies, with Billie Eilish rumored to be in consideration to star. Now, Yellowjackets star Sophie Thatcher is claimed to be the brand new lead alongside a star from Anora, 2025’s Finest Image winner on the Oscars.
Right here’s every part we find out about this Emmy-nominated action-drama’s future.
Who’s within the Mr. & Mrs. Smith Season 2 forged?
Sophie Thatcher from Yellowjackets and Anora‘s Mark Eydelshteyn would be the lead Smiths in Season 2, in keeping with Deadline. There aren’t any additional particulars accessible about their characters at the moment.
Are Donald Glover and Maya Erskine coming again for Mr. & Mrs. Smith Season 2?
Casting info was not included within the Season 2 renewal announcement on Could 14. Glover is a co-creator of the collection with Francesca Sloane, with whom he labored on Atlanta. Glover will return as an govt producer in Season 2, with Sloane again as showrunner and EP, in keeping with Deadline. However plainly Glover and Erskine is not going to be returning onscreen as their John and Jane Smith. In fact, there’s at all times the chance that the Season 1 leads might return and the collection is maintaining their survival a secret for now. However in the intervening time, assume that they received’t be again.
The final time we noticed the Season 1 Smiths, John was bleeding out from a gunshot wound and Jane was trapped in a protected room with him, with Parker Posey‘s character armed and ready simply outdoors the door. They determined to open it and struggle again, and the finale’s credit scene ended on an exterior shot of their New York Metropolis home the place two gunshots might be heard going off inside. Who fired the pictures stays a thriller.
Deadline reported in October that Amazon MGM Studios was in search of actors of their 20s to play the following John and Jane in Season 2. These new Smiths would reportedly lead the collection and would require a one-year take care of the present. Eilish was rumored to be a reputation the studio was contemplating for Jane, Deadline experiences. However once more, nothing about this report has been confirmed by the studio.
Glover and Erskine, in addition to Sloane and different Amazon reps, have prevented revealing something a few potential return from the Season 1 stars, who each obtained Emmy nominations for his or her performances. Sloane instructed Deadline after the Season 1 finale, “If we let you know an excessive amount of, you’ll know early in the event that they survived.” When requested if the collection would change into an anthology with new stars every season, Sloane replied with a succinct “perhaps.”
Having new Smiths doesn’t essentially imply that Glover and Erskine can’t return, nevertheless. The characters can nonetheless have survived the Season 1 finale whereas new Smiths take middle stage in Season 2. Each spy on this fictional espionage group known as John and Jane Smith. And actually, the most effective elements of this televised reimagining of the 2005 movie of the identical title is that extra Smiths are launched. Viewers get to be taught extra about how this spy company is structured, and the stakes are raised with the inclusion of various ranges of hazard the Smiths can tackle by means of this job. There are low, excessive, and tremendous high-risk Smiths within the firm. The Season 1 finale revealed that being a brilliant high-risk Smith implies that your targets are different Smiths. Assassins tasked with killing assassins? That’s dangerous.
The extensive world of Smiths would permit room for Glover and Erskine to reprise their roles in Season 2 with out essentially being the leads if their characters are alive.
When the collection was introduced, the pinnacle of Amazon MGM Studios, Jennifer Salke, mentioned that they’re trying ahead to creating “new adventures” on this collection.
“We’re excited to announce {that a} second season of our groundbreaking spy collection, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, is within the works for our international Prime Video prospects,” Salke mentioned in Could. “The success of the primary season, with its extremely fashionable, attractive reinvention of the unique movie, is a testomony to the sensible creators Donald Glover and Francesa Sloane. We’re proud to deliver you one other season stuffed with unforgettable journeys and new adventures.”
Has Mr. & Mrs. Smith Season 2 began filming?
As of the time of the publication, it’s unknown whether or not the collection has began manufacturing on Season 2. However the July report revealed that Season 2 filming will take relocate to Los Angeles County as a part of the state’s Movie & TV Tax Credit score Program. Season 1 was filmed in New York and Italy.
Keep tuned as we proceed to report the most recent updates on this spy thriller.
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