Because the combined power of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie created too much sexy for one feature film, Mr and Mrs Smith is being squashed into TV series size, so as to siphon off the sexy into weekly bite-size pieces and prevent large scale sexy disaster.
The series will begin around six months after the film ended, with the two married assassins continuing their double life of killing baddies and choosing curtains for their suburban mini mansion. Doug Liman and Simon Kinberg, director and writer of the movie respectively, will resume their roles for the series.
Both are currently working on the sci-fi film Jumper. Sadly it has nothing to do with space age knitwear, but is the story of a young man who discovers the ability to teleport. Which is all fine, but distressingly unwooly. The pair will shoot the pilot after Jumper wraps.
Kinberg says the show is "essentially Married With Children with guns. The show takes all the marital issues a couple has and blows them up to action genre size...they'll bicker over someone forgetting to pack the detonator"
The show is scheduled to air in the US late this year. Neither Brad Pitt nor Angelina Jolie will reprise their roles. So why the picture you ask? Because of the sexy.