Ask FlickChick An earlier Mr Mrs Smith Plus A family trapped by green goo in their house Rendezvous with Rama and more movie questions answeredQuestion I just saw the Angelina JolieBrad Pitt movie Mr Mrs Smith and I could have sworn Ive seen the same story before Am I misremembering I know Im not thinking of the Alfred Hitchcock movie of the same title that has a totally different plot FrankFlickChick Ill bet youre thinking of a short-lived 1996 television series called wait for it Mr Mrs Smith starring Maria Bello and Scott Bakula as spies recruited by a mysterious intelligence agency and required to pose as a married couple to carry out their assignments Neither trusts the other in part because theyve both worked for other covert agencies in the past and know that they may well have been on opposite sides then but theres a sexual tension that would presumably have led to them becoming Mr and Mrs Smith for re
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A smaller-screen port of Brangelina's Mr. & Mrs. Smith first date movie, passed over this week by ABC, still hopes to have a shot at making someone's fall schedule. Starring Jordana Brewster and Martin Henderson, the series will be shopped to the other networks next week, sources tell the Hollywood Reporter. I dunno, no immortal protagonist nor a Sex and the City theme? Sounds like a long shot this season, kiddies.
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The latest pilot updates, from our friends at the Hollywood Reporter and Variety:• Kirstie Alley has collared the title role in The Minister of Divine, Fox's take on the Britcom The Vicar of Dibley.• Martin Henderson (The Ring) will play Brad to Jordana Brewster's Angelina in ABC's Mr. & Mrs. Smith. (If you are dating either of the leads, please think very carefully before splurging on the Valentine's gift.)• Brian White (Stomp the Yard) is Kyle in ABC's Football Wives.• Lee Pace (The Good Shepherd) has landed the lead, as a man who can bring the dead back to life with but a touch, in ABC's Pushing Daisies.• Mark-Paul Gosselaar will star opposite Janeane Garofalo in CBS' public-defenders comedy.• Cole Hauser will star in K-Ville, Fox's New Orleans-cops drama.• Colm Feore is the police-department captain in ABC's Judy's Got a Gun.• That '70s Show's Kurtwood Smith is a justice in Supreme Courtships, Fox's look at a half dozen clerks and judg...
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Well, half of the burning question has been answered: Sources tell TVGuide.com that Jordana Brewster (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, The Fast and the Furious, what-have-you) has been tapped to fill Angelina Jolie's tattoos shoes, playing Jane in ABC's Mr. & Mrs. Smith pilot, based on the 2005 film. No word yet on Mr. Pitt's successor, and while I feel that Las Vegas' Josh Duhamel would kill in the role (no pun intended), I now have a feeling we might get, like, Ashton Kutcher.
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ABC has greenlit production on a pilot for Mr. & Mrs. Smith, an adaptation of the big-screen thriller that, in addition to its assorted cinematic merits, introduced a boy named Brad to a girl named Angie. Doug Liman and Simon Kinberg will reprise their roles as director and scribe. Set six months after where the film left off, with the Smiths now residing in a new house in a new suburb, Kinberg likens the TV version to "Married... with Children with guns," telling the Hollywood Reporter, "It is a show about any married couple trying to balance professional and home life." Eyed for a fall 2007 slot and set to shoot in March, casting on the pilot has yet to be determined. Good luck with that. Maybe the Today's News blog readers can help Mr. Liman out with casting, what do you say? Too bad Eric Dane is busy. (But Charisma Carpenter isn't!)
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