Anna Kendrick (left) and Blake Full of life in ‘A Easy Favor.’
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It’s time to boost an Aviation gin martini to toast Anna Kendrick and Blake Full of life returning for one more glamorous thriller with A Easy Favor 2 from director Paul Feig.
Amazon MGM Studios introduced Wednesday that the sequel film, which is a co-production with Lionsgate, is seeking to start capturing this spring and can stream on Prime Video. Feig is again to helm the follow-up to his 2018 darkish comedy, with Henry Golding, Andrew Rannells, Bashir Salahuddin, Joshua Satine, Ian Ho and Kelly McCormack all reprising their roles from the primary characteristic.
Jessica Sharzer, who penned the preliminary film, returned to write down the sequel, with Feig and Laeta Kalogridis additionally contributing to the script. Sharzer’s screenplay for the unique movie was primarily based on the 2017 novel of the identical title by creator Darcey Bell.
A Easy Favor 2 sees Stephanie Smothers (Kendrick) and Emily Nelson (Full of life) heading to the island of Capri for Emily’s lavish wedding ceremony. The itinerary for the vacation spot nuptials between Emily and a rich Italian businessman is ready to incorporate homicide and betrayal.
Feig and Laura Fischer will produce A Easy Favor 2 for Feigco Leisure, with Sharzer serving as govt producer. Improvement on the sequel was first reported in 2022.
Launched by Lionsgate in September 2018, A Easy Favor earned $53 million on the home field workplace and picked up $97 million globally. In his overview for The Hollywood Reporter, critic Jon Frosch wrote on the time, “There are plum elements for Anna Kendrick and Blake Full of life, interesting stars whom Feig guides easily by means of the plot’s sudden swerves and swings.”
Kendrick appeared on this 12 months’s Hulu movie Self Reliance and is ready to star in her characteristic directorial debut with Lady of the Hour hitting Netflix this fall. Full of life stars reverse Justin Baldoni in Sony’s big-screen adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s novel It Ends With Us, hitting theaters in June. Feig, who directed the 2022 film The Faculty for Good and Evil for Netflix, has wrapped filming on Amazon’s action-comedy characteristic Grand Dying Lotto starring John Cena, Awkwafina and Simu Liu.
Feig is represented by CAA, Shelter PR and Sloane Supply. Kendrick is repped by CAA, Vary Media Companions, Initiative and Yorn Levine. Full of life is repped by WME, Leisure 360 and Sloane Supply.