Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively are returning for Real Aviation gin martinis (with a twist), glamorous outfits, and killer secrets in A Simple Favor 2 from director Paul Feig.
Amazon MGM Studios have announced that they’ve greenlit the sequel to the 2018 mystery-thriller, which is a co-production with Lionsgate and is aiming to begin filming this spring. Feig (who directed 2016’s Ghostbusters) is back to helm with Henry Golding, Andrew Rannells, Bashir Salahuddin, Joshua Satine,, Ian Ho and Kelly McCormack reprising their roles from the original feature. In fact, the whole team is back together, with original scribe Jessica Sharzer also returning to pen the sequel.
In A Simple Favor, Stephanie Smothers (Kendrick) is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily Nelson (Lively), a secretive upper-class woman with has a child at the same elementary school. When Emily goes missing however, Stephanie takes it upon herself to investigate.
Now, (spoilers ahead!) you may remember that Emily ends up going to prison to serve a 20-year sentence, yet in A Simple Favor 2, we’ll reportedly see Stephanie and Emily heading to the island of Capri for the latter’s lavish wedding. Though fans will have to wait and see how Emily got out of that particular snafu, the synopsis goes on to promise that the itinerary for the destination nuptials between Emily and a wealthy Italian businessman is set to include murder (of course) and betrayal (goes without saying).