The series starring and created by Donald Glover, alongside Francesca Sloan, gets an upsetting update. According to Deadline, Mr. & Mrs. Smith Season 2’s filming date has been pushed back. The second season was meant to start filming in the fall, but currently has no new set date.
A source from Deadline reveals that cast issues are possibly to blame, with no further news on Anora‘s Mark Eydelshteyn and Yellowjackets‘ Sophie Thatcher’s original casting for the season. Sloan was also scheduled to return to the Prime Video series as its showrunner for Season 2. But sources say she has signed an overall deal with HBO and is in the process of developing a third season of Big Little Lies.
Reps from Amazon have declined to comment on the status of Mr. & Mrs. Smith Season 2.
The series had received a $22.4 million tax credit from the California Film Commission, as the second season would relocate from its original set in New York to Los Angeles. Based on the Commission’s guidelines, production had to have begun within 18 months of receiving the credit. The credit was given to the series in March, leaving rouhgly a year and four months.
Fans will have to cross their fingers and hope for an update on Season 2, as the series finale left the door open to a cliffhanger.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith follows two strangers (Glover and Maya Erskine) as they are tasked with posing as a married couple. As spies, they are given new careers, details of their seemingly perfect life, and new aliases as Mr. and Mrs. John and Jane Smith.
Season 1 ended in a flurry of gunfire as the two main characters got caught in a tense gunfight. Whether both characters survived is a mystery that was meant to be explored in Season 2.
