South by Southwest Conference and Festivals announced big news for their festival’s opening screening this year. Another Simple Favor, the sequel to director Paul Feig’s A Simple Favor, will premiere at the South by Southwest Film & TV Festival on March 7 at the Paramount Theatre in downtown Austin. Like the first film, Another Simple Favor stars Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick.
And now, we even have a trailer for Another Simple Favor to get us excited for what’s next.
“If I do try to murder you,” Lively’s character Stephanie Smothers says in the trailer for Another Simple Favor, “It’ll make an amazing sequel.
This new film will follow the same protagonists from the first film, Stephanie Smothers and Emily Nelson, played by Kendrick and Lively, respectively. Smothers and Nelson reunite in Capri, Italy, due to Nelson’s wedding to a wealthy Italian businessman. The plot description says: “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.” The film also brings back Henry Golding of Crazy Rich Asians fame, reprising his role as Sean Townsend.
The film is directed and produced by Feig, who is most known for Bridesmaids and Ghostbusters. He also created the cult classic television show Freaks and Geeks. Of course, to me, a girl in her early twenties, Feig is most recognizable as Mr. Pool from Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
I couldn’t be more thrilled to be back at my favorite festival in the world where we successfully launched Bridesmaids and Spy, and I cannot begin to say how honored I am to have our film opening it all,” said Feig. “I’ve avoided making sequels to any of my films but these characters were just too much fun not to revisit. So, to be able to have Anna, Blake, Henry, Andrew, Michele, Elizabeth, Alex and myself watch our film with the great SXSW audience is a bucket list event I’ll be able to check off March 7th and move playing drums for Dwight Yoakum’s band up to the top slot.
Laura Fischer is also producing, with executive producers Jennifer Booth, Jessica Sharzer, and Marco Valerio Pugini involved as well. Booth is well known for being a La La Land producer and Vice President of Marvel Studios’ physical production. Sharzer penned both A Simple Favor and its successor.
If you can’t make it to SXSW, don’t fret. Another Simple Flavor will launch globally on May 1 on Amazon Prime Video.
Originally published on February 5, 2025.
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