Paul Feig's 2018 thriller is coming back to do a sequel alongside the two lead actors, Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively.
reports that Lionsgate and Amazon Studios have teamed up for A Simple Favor 2 with most of the original cast members in tow. In addition to Feig, Kendrick, and Lively, Jessica Sharzer is also back to write the script.
A Simple Favor is based on the Darcey Bell novel of the same name and stars Kendrick as Stephanie Smothers, a widowed single mother, who also makes vlogs on the side, makes friends with Lively's Emily Nelson. When her newfound upper-class friend goes missing, Stephanie believes that it is on her to find out the truth.
A Simple Favor made nearly $100 million at the global box office on a $20 million budget. More importantly, the film also hit it big among critics, who loved the plot twists and the lead actor's performances as well as the open-ended nature. However, without a follow-up from Bell, fans believed that A Simple Favor was a one-off. Now that this isn't the case, it falls on Feig and Sharzer to try and recapture the critical as well as commercial success of A Simple Favor.