Shooting to Begin By Year’s End on New Phoebe Waller-Bridge Series for Amazon Prime
She won’t be Mrs. Smith, but Phoebe Waller-Bridge does have a new project coming for Amazon Prime.
Details on the new show’s plot haven’t been revealed, not even the genre of thee show, but it is expected the go into production some time before the end of 2022.
The series will be a follow up to Fleabag, which Waller-Bridge created and starred in, from her one-woman show of the same name. The show aired on Amazon in the U.S. and was a critical success, winning six Emmy Awards across its two-season run at the streamer, including best comedy series. Waller-Bridge won Emmys for best writing for a comedy series and best actress in a comedy.
The show also won the Golden Globe for best comedy series while Waller-Bridge won the best actress in a comedy Globe as well for the poignant and funny show.
It probably won’t be a sequel, as Waller-Bridge has long maintained that Fleabag‘s story was definitively over after its second series.
This is part of Waller-Bridge’s overall deal’s three-year deal with Amazon, signed back in 2019. This new show is the first project to be greenlit as a part of that deal. (She had been attached to Amazon’s series adaptation of Mr. and Mrs. Smith opposite Donald Glover, but exited the project in 2021.)
Waller-Bridge has been very busy of late: she created the series Killing Eve starring Jodie Comer, which is currently airing its fourth and final season. She executive produced and appeared in the HBO romantic comedy series, Run, which starred Merritt Wever and Domhnall Gleeson. She also created and starred in the series Crashing and most recently worked on the screenplay for the James Bond film No Time to Die. She appears in the upcoming fifth Indiana Jones film and is the voice of the droid L3-37 in Solo: A Star Wars Story.