Prepare for extra thriller, twists, yuppie passive aggression, and (hopefully) customized fits. A sequel to “A Easy Favor,” the hit 2018 thriller starring Anna Kendrick and Blake Energetic, is on the best way. Kendrick and Energetic are returning for the brand new challenge, as are screenwriter Jessica Sharzer and director-producer Paul Feig. Deadline broke the information.
Based mostly on the Darcey Bell novel of the identical identify, “A Easy Favor” sees an upper-middle-class parenting vlogger (Kendrick) looking for out what occurred to her lacking greatest good friend (Energetic), a fellow mom at her son’s elementary faculty. It quickly turns into clear that Energetic’s character is just not precisely whom she gave the impression to be.
“The pic was a essential and business success for Lionsgate,” Deadline notes, “incomes greater than $97 million on the worldwide field workplace, reaching Licensed Recent standing on Rotten Tomatoes, and attracting a powerful base that has been hoping for a follow-up after an ending that left issues open for a possible sequel.”
No plot particulars on the “Easy Favor” sequel simply but, but it surely hails from Lionsgate and Amazon Studios and Feig’s Feigco Leisure is producing. Feigco’s Laura Fischer will function producer and Sharzer will govt produce.
Kendrick acquired an Oscar nomination for her breakout position in “Up within the Air.” Her newer credit embody “Love Life” and “Stowaway,” and she or he counts Mary Nighy thriller “Alice, Darling” and Chloe Okuno’s true crime pic “The Relationship Recreation” amongst her upcoming initiatives.
Energetic is about to make her function directorial debut with an adaptation of the graphic novel “Seconds.” Her best-known initiatives embody “Gossip Lady,” “The Shallows,” and “The City.” She beforehand directed the Taylor Swift video “I Guess You Suppose About Me (Taylor’s Model).”
Sharzer has written for and produced “American Horror Story,” “Star,” and “9 Excellent Strangers.” She additionally directed, co-wrote, and co-produced “Converse,” the Kristen Stewart-starring TV film primarily based on Laurie Halse Anderson’s seminal YA novel a few teenage rape survivor.
Feig govt produces “Minx,” the ’70s-set HBO Max collection in regards to the creation of the primary erotic journal for ladies. It was not too long ago renewed for a second season. The “Bridesmaids” director’s upcoming slate contains Netflix fantasy-action pic “The College for Good and Evil,” starring Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington.
Supply: Women And Hollywood
