Revenge is a dish best served chilled in Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick’s Another Simple Favor.
Amazon MGM Studios just released the first trailer for Another Simple Favor, the sequel to the 2018 thriller A Simple Favor, a film that follows mommy blogger Stephanie (Kendrick), who investigates the mysterious disappearance of her wealthy and secretive friend, Emily (Lively), uncovering a tangled web of betrayal, lies, and murder along the way.
The trailer for the sequel shows frenemies Stephanie and Emily reuniting for Emily’s wedding to a wealthy Italian businessman on the luxurious island of Capri, Italy. However, it appears that Emily might have something more than just a wedding celebration on the agenda.
“Do you think I invited you to get revenge for stealing my life and taking my kid away from me? You think I want to make you pay?” Emily asks Stephanie in the trailer, who replies with a somewhat baffled: “I don’t know, are you?”
Along with Lively and Kendrick, Another Simple Favor sees the return of director Paul Feig and cast members Henry Golding, Kelly McCormack, Andrew Rannells, and Bashir Salahuddin.
This will be Lively’s first film since It Ends With Us, a 2024 adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s book of the same name, whose disastrous promotional tour ignited an ongoing legal battle between Lively and the film’s director and star, Justin Baldoni.
In the lawsuit, Lively alleges that Baldoni and his PR team launched a smear campaign to silence her over sexual misconduct allegations she made against Baldoni during the filming of It Ends With Us. In contrast, Baldoni’s countersuit alleges that Lively is lying about the allegations as a ploy to wrestle away the rights for the movie’s sequel.
After The New York Times published Lively’s allegations against Baldoni and his team in their article, Feig stood by Lively in a post on X.
“I’ve now made two movies with Blake and all I can say is she’s one of the most professional, creative, collaborative, talented and kind people I’ve ever worked with,” Feig wrote on X. “She truly did not deserve any of this smear campaign against her. I think it’s awful she was put through this.”
Set to premiere on Mar. 7 at SXSW Film & TV Festival, Another Simple Favor promises to be a sequel full of drama, shocking twists, and cold-blooded revenge.
