The highly anticipated sequel to the 2018 film, A Simple Favor, is coming sooner than expected, with Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick returning.
Darcey Bell’s critically acclaimed mystery novel returns to the screen in the highly anticipated sequel to A simple favour. The 2018 movie directed by 2016 Ghostbusters director Paul Feige, will continue to tell his story with leads Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick returning to play Emily Nelson and Stephanie Smothers.
Announced mid-2022, the sequel has been in development for a while and finally there is news about it. Thanks to a notification from People magazine, some plot details were revealed, as well as the possible start date of filming. The film is set in Capri, Italy, and the director also returns, with shooting set to begin this fall.
The sequel comes from Lionsgate and Amazon Studios, though there’s no word on whether the project will be another big screen release or direct-to-stream on Prime Video. Jessica Sharzer is also returning to write the screenplay.
What can we expect from A Simple Favor 2?
In the first movie, Stephanie is a single mom with a vlog about parenting and family life who befriends Emily. This is a mysterious upper-class woman who has a son in the same elementary school as the protagonist’s daughter, which is what brings them together in the first place. When Emily goes missing, Stephanie investigates the truth behind her sudden disappearance. However, she will find herself in a web of conflict and lies much larger than she imagined.
At the end of the movie, Stephanie made it big with her mystery-solving blog and started a new career focused on her new talent. Emily, for her part, was sentenced to prison, and the outcome showed us that Lively’s character was willing to take on her new environment, as she did with everything around her.
In the sequel, the protagonists will surely meet again and get involved in a new game of secrets and lies, involving them either directly or with a new story related to other characters, given Stephanie’s new life. Another who could be a key piece in the new puzzle is Sean, played by Henry Golding, although it’s not confirmed at this point if the actor will return to join Lively and Kendrick in the sequel. Unfortunately, there is no reference material for this new story, as Bell’s novel was the only one and had no sequels to draw stories from.