Whatta twist! The group behind the fun, slippery thriller A Simple Favor are coming back for a sequel. 2018’s A Simple Favor starred Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, and Henry Golding. Kendrick played a mommy vlogger who investigates the disappearance of her friend/fellow mom, Lively. Golding played the husband, but everybody had sexual tension with everybody so let’s not get hung up on labels. Was the film an early herald of the martini’s return as an It Drink? Possibly but the big mystery of when the film will premiere is now partially solved, thanks to director Paul Feig.
May 11, 2022: Deadline is reporting that Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively will reprise their riles from the film, and Paul Feig will once again direct off a script by Jessica Sharzer. Beyond that, little is known, but much can be speculated. Blake Lively will probably wear a bunch of suits. It will probably be horny in increasingly deranged ways. Things will probably not be as they appear.
January 11, 2025: Director Paul Feig is setting the rumors straight: A Simple Favor 2 is coming soon. In response to a post claiming the film had been shelved, Feig called it “total BS.” “The movie is finished and coming out soon. Don’t believe anything you read on social media these days,” he clarified in several posts. “Our post schedule always had us finishing everything by mid-January. Movies don’t come out the second they’re finished because the studio spends the previous year deciding the best date to release it. We’ve always planned on something in the spring/summer of this year.” We’ll get our martini supplies ready.
