By Ben Pearson/Feb. 12, 2021 5:06 pm EST
Donald Glover announced the news through an amusing series of Instagram stories, which you can still watch if you act quickly.
The award-winning writers/producers/actors are tackling what is described as “a new take and iteration” on the 2005 New Regency film, which starred Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as a married couple who have a humdrum home life, only for their relationship to be significantly spiced up when they realize they’ve each been living double lives as assassins who work for competing firms, and they’ve been assigned to kill each other.
Glover and Waller-Bridge will star in the series and serve as executive producers. Co-creator and executive producer Francesca Sloane (Atlanta, Fargo) will serve as the showrunner, and Yariv Milchan, Michael Schaefer, and Jenny Robins will all executive produce as well. It’s unclear if Glover and Waller-Bridge, who are both incredible writers themselves, will also be writing any of the episodes or if they’ll just be responsible for overseeing the creative direction of the show. This might make me a basic bitch, but I am full-blown stoked about this. A pair of sexy geniuses making a sexy, action-based relationship thriller? Sounds like streaming catnip to me, and like the gift we need in a post-pandemic world.
