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Amid the controversy surrounding Blake Lively's lawsuit against Justin Baldoni, news of the actress' A Simple Favor 2 getting shelved by Amazon started doing the rounds on X. On January 10, 2025, X user @Oflululemon reported that Amazon shelved A Simple Favor 2 indefinitely. The tweet read:
"Despite glowing test screenings, Blake Lively’s refusal to promote—amid her messy legal battle with Justin Baldoni—and growing tensions with Anna Kendrick have derailed the sequel. Anna is furious. Paul Feig is disappointed. Hollywood is in shock. This isn’t just a movie—it’s an implosion."
The tweet also mentioned a disclaimer that the thread was based on publicly available information, research, and insider accounts, indirectly hinting at the news not being factually accurate.
Debunking the rumors concerning the film's release, the director of A Simple Favor 2, Paul Feig responded to the tweet on January 11, 2025, stating:
"This is total BS. Sorry. The movie is finished and coming out soon. Don’t believe anything you read on social media these days."
According to an April 2024 report by the Economic Times, the announcement for the sequel of the 2018 film, was made in May 2022. Amazon MGM Studio gave a heads-up for production in March 2024, post which the film was slated for shooting in the spring of 2024.
While a release date for A Simple Favor 2 hasn't been announced yet, the movie produced by Lionsgate and Amazon MGM Studios is set to stream on Prime Video in more than 200 countries.
More details about Blake Lively starrer A Simple Favor 2 explored
Released in 2018, A Simple Favor was a hit at the box office as it hit the $97 million mark on a budget of $20 million. Additionally, according to a report by ScreenRant dated May 2024, for the week of May 20-26, 2024, the movie featuring Blake Lively ranked 8th on the Global Top 10 Chart of Netflix boasting 12.2 million hours viewed and 6.3 million views.
As per Deadline's (published March 2024) synopsis of A Simple Favor 2, the sequel will feature Lively's character Emily Nelson, and Anna Kendrick's character Stephanie Smothers visiting Capri, Italy, for Emily's wedding to a rich Italian businessman. The synopsis mentioned:
"Along with the glamorous guests, expect murder and betrayal to RSVP for a wedding with more twists and turns than the road from the Marina Grande to the Capri town square."
Speaking to The Wrap in August 2024, about the upcoming sequel of the 2018 movie, director Paul Feig mentioned that it was in post-production and had been receiving positive feedback. Feig also said:
“Now I’m just fine-tuning. I’m only six weeks into my director’s cut, but it’s a movie I’ve seen so clearly since we had so much time to prep for it. And we threw out one script during the writers strike and rewrote the whole thing. So I’m really excited about it. And the audience response was just so, so exciting.”
In other news, A Simple Favor 2 director Paul Feig supported Blake Lively after news of her filing a lawsuit against Justin Baldoni for alleged s*xual harassment came to light. Feig said that he worked with Blake Lively in 2 movies and he thinks she is creative, talented, and kind.
Feig added that Blake Lively didn't deserve any of the smear campaign against her which she has alleged was carried out by Justin Baldoni and his PR team. Paul Feig also said that it was awful that Lively was put through it.
