'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' already being remade by Hollywood? Seriously? (with video)

February 8, 3:18 PMDallas Comedy ExaminerScott Wampler

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  Brad and Angelina, standing in the wreckage of the box office receipts for "Mr & Mrs Smith"

Think all the way back to 2005, back when Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie agreed to star in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" together.  The gossip surrounding that film ended up eclipsing the final product-- Jennifer Aniston's still talking about it-- and the film did ho-hum box office.  But this is 2010, and we're talking about Hollywood, so you know what that means: Reboot!  Read on for the details, my gentle Examiner readers...

Seriously, Hollywood? 

A "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" reboot less than 5 years after the original action/comedy arrived in theaters?  That's the word on the street.  According to an article being run over at Vulture:

Regency Enterprises, the mini-studio-within-a-studio at Fox, is moving ahead with developing a quasi-prequel to the 2005 Brad Pitt–Angelina Jolie hit Mr. and Mrs. Smith, which will be called Mr. and Mrs. Jones.

In the 2005 movie that created the Brangelina phenomenon, the actors played an outwardly milquetoast married couple who had no idea they were both assassins hired by competing agencies to kill each other. Jones will serve as an origin story about a similar couple, showing how a pair of twentysomething spies are set up as a fake married couple when they graduate agency training. 

 

Again: seriously?  This whole thing reminds this guy of the "Spiderman" reboot that's currently being planned by Sony, where they're taking Peter Parker and his mildly interesting super-powers back to high school in order to mine all that teen angst (and the "Twilight" audience, don't forget them).  The telling part is that "twentysomething spies" note: how much you wanna bet this thing ends up in the laps of Taylor Lautner and whatever vapid starlet he's dating?

In case you've forgotten-- it's been nearly 5 years, so we'll forgive you if that's the case-- what the original looked like, here's the trailer for the Brad/Angelina "Mr. and Mrs. Smith":

Well, all we can do is stay tuned for more on this as it develops, folks.  Feel free to leave your feedback in the comments section if you're moved enough to do so.  Otherwise, hit the "Subscribe" button up top to get all the Comedy Examiner's articles delivered straight to your email, free of charge, the moment they're published.  While you're here, check out these other recent Comedy Examiner articles:

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