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Loved the 2018 movie A Simple Favor with Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick? Well, manager Paul Feig is dropping a hint astir the "flair" of the sequel that whitethorn person you raising your martini.
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Paul Feig is doing fans a elemental favor.
The manager has an update connected the upcoming sequel to A Simple Favor starring Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick—and he's travel bearing bully news.
"We person the script. We emotion it," helium said on SiriusXM's The Jess Cagle Show on Oct. 20. "We benignant of person a woody to bash it, it's conscionable figuring retired scheduling and everything. That's the happening that rules Hollywood is schedules. Because present Blake is gonna person a baby and stuff. So, we'll see. It's gonna get made. It's conscionable not definite what the timeline is close now."
The archetypal movie follows mommy vlogger Stephanie, played by Kendrick, who investigates the disappearance of her mysterious person Emily (Lively). In May, Lively—who is expecting her 4th child with husband Ryan Reynolds—confirmed reports of a sequel to the 2018 acheronian drama thriller connected her Instagram Stories by quoting a lyric from Taylor Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do" and penning "Then I cheque it TWICE, oh."
The highly anticipated sequel would people a archetypal for Feig—who's besides directed movies like Bridesmaids and The Heat—as he's ne'er really made a sequel before.
"I effort to debar it 'cause I deliberation they're truly hard," helium explained. "Because the crushed you latch into a movie the archetypal clip is you're conscionable getting to cognize these characters and worldly and watching them repair their lives oregon spell done an experience. So, it's hard to benignant of, like, enactment them backmost astatine quadrate 1 and bash it again."
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So why is Feig acceptable to springiness sequels a changeable with A Simple Favor?
"I emotion the combo of Anna and Blake and truthful it was truthful funny," helium said. "So I can't truly archer the full idea, but I thought, 'Oh, I tin enactment them successful a antithetic satellite present that volition beryllium precise amusive to spot Anna Kendrick beryllium like, 'Where americium I?'"
He added, "The full crushed I deliberation that movie works is Anna's quality is this nerdy ma who gets caught up successful this truly brainsick concern that's truthful extracurricular of her wheelhouse. And that's the amusive of seeing her conscionable benignant of truthful mesmerized by worldly and benignant of successful implicit her head."
While Feig is remaining tight-lipped connected what to expect from the sequel, helium did driblet 1 clue. "I'll conscionable accidental it has an planetary flair to it," helium noted. "Let's conscionable accidental that."
He added that "there's a batch of stuff" they tin bash with the characters and wherever they are now. "It's fun," helium continued. "Let's conscionable accidental it's fun."
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