Blake Lively, Anna Kendrick Face Off in ‘Another Simple Favor’ Trailer
Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick reconnect and head to Italy in the teaser trailer for Another Simple Favor.
Director Paul Feig’s sequel to his 2018 film A Simple Favor is set to begin streaming May 1 on Prime Video. Henry Golding, Andrew Rannells, Bashir Salahuddin, Michele Morrone, Elizabeth Perkins and Allison Janney round out the cast for the new movie that is a co-production between Amazon MGM Studios and Lionsgate.
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Premiering March 7 as the opening title for the South by Southwest festival, Another Simple Favor sees Stephanie Smothers (Kendrick) and Emily Nelson (Lively) heading to the island of Capri for the latter’s lavish wedding. Emily is set to marry a wealthy Italian businessman, with murder and betrayal finding their way onto the agenda.
Lively asks Kendrick in the trailer, “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?” Kendrick replies, “I don’t know. Do you?”
Feig helmed the movie from a script by Jessica Sharzer and Laeta Kalogridis. Sharzer wrote the screenplay for the original film, which was based on the 2017 novel of the same name by author Darcey Bell.
Lively’s most recent film was It Ends With Us, with the Sony movie hitting theaters in August and surpassing $350 million at the global box office. The project has been at the center of controversy amid the ongoing legal battle between Lively and director and co-star Justin Baldoni.
Feig has recently supported Lively on social media, with the director defending her earlier this month after one Instagram user asked about the pair’s professional relationship on A Simple Favor 2. “Blake has been nothing but supportive and a dream to work with,” Feig posted at the time. “She is the best and an amazing collaborator, and I’m her biggest fan.”
Released by Lionsgate in September 2018, A Simple Favor earned $53 million at the domestic box office and collected $97 million globally. In his review for The Hollywood Reporter, critic Jon Frosch wrote at the time, “There are plum parts for Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively, appealing stars whom Feig guides smoothly through the plot’s sudden swerves and swings.”
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