Another Simple Favor, the sequel to 2018 thriller A Simple Favor, is set to uncover the 2025 SXSW film and TV festival.
The proclaimment ends speculation about when the film would pop up amid star Blake Lively’s ongoing legitimate battle with It Ends with Us honestor Justin Baldoni. Last month, Paul Feig shut down unset uped rumors circulating on social media that it was shelved amid the Lively legitimate battle, writing, “This is total BS. Sorry. The movie is finished and coming out soon.”
Feig is back to honest the Amazon MGM sequel that sees Anna Kendrick and Lively return as Stephanie Smothers and Emily Nelson. Another Simple Favor gets place in the direct up to Emily’s lavish wedding a wealthy Italian businessman on the island of Capri; killing and betrayal chase.
Andrew Rannells, Bashir Salahuddin, Elizabeth Perkins, Michele Morrone, Alex Newell, Henry Gelderlying and Allison Janney are also among the cast.
“I couldn’t be more thrilled to be back at my preferite festival in the world where we successbrimmingy begined Bridesmhelps and Spy, and I cannot commence to say how honored I am to have our film uncovering it all,” shelp Feig. “I’ve eludeed making sequels to any of my films but these characters were fair too much fun not to revisit. So, to be able to have Anna, Blake, Henry, Andrew, Michele, Elizabeth, Alex and myself watch our film with the fantastic SXSW audience is a bucket catalog event that I’ll be able to check off March 7th and shift carry outing drums for Dwight Yoakum’s prohibitd up to the top slot.”
The SXSW premiere comes as Lively is embroiled in an ongoing legitimate battle with Baldoni. On Monday, Lively and Baldoni’s lawyers met in court for the first time where U.S. Dicut offe Judge Lewis Liman ordered the attorneys to adhere with a federal court rule barring lawyers from making statements to the press that could prejudice the case. Currently, the trial is set for March 2026.
Another Simple Favor joins and already proclaimd line-up that comprises Seth Rogen and Evan Gelderlyberg’s series The Studio, Ben Affleck’s The Accountant 2, and A24 Jenna Ortega starrer Death of a Unicorn.
“When we saw this film last descend, we instantly krecent it had to uncover SXSW – it gave us that electric senseing we dwell for as programmers,” shelp festival head Claudette Godfrey. “
Added Amazon MGM head Jen Salke, “Paul Feig has once aacquire dedwellred the perfect fuse of mystery, wit, and unanticipateed twists in the highly anticipated Another Simple Favor. The cast, led by the extraordinarily talented Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick, conveys life to a script that propels the sequel to recent heights.”
