Paul Feig is open to yet another Simple Favor.
The director of the twisty, campy crime dramedy and its recently debuted follow-up, Another Simple Favor, said he “would love” to explore a threequel following Anna Kendrick’s mommy vlogger Stephanie and Blake Lively’s conniving con-woman Emily Nelson.
“I definitely know where I want it to go,” he told People in a new interview. “We’ll see if everybody wants to do a third one. It was too much fun — I would love to get back together with this group and these characters and send them on an even weirder, international adventure, if possible.”
While 2018’s original takes place in small-town Connecticut, this year’s sequel takes its rivaling mothers to the breathtaking island of Capri, where Emily is getting married after having been released from prison. Though she goads Stephanie into being her maid of honor, the amateur sleuth is soon convinced that it’s all part of an elaborate revenge plot.
In terms of the setting for a potential third film, Feig said, “I think we need to take them out into the world even more.”
Speaking to Deadline earlier this month, Feig admitted that making Another Simple Favor required him to throw his personal filmmaking rulebook out the window.
“I don’t do sequels,” Feig explained at the Contenders Television panel for the film, noting that he’s long resisted helming a sequel to megahit Bridesmaids. “Sequels are hard … Audiences, I think, got burned by a lot of sequels. And so the big question for an audience is always, ‘Why do I need to see this?’ And so you’ve really got to be able to answer that question.”
He continued, “This one just felt like, ‘Oh, there is a way into this.’ Everybody was like, ‘How are you going to get her out of prison?’ I’m like, ‘Come on – Marvel brings people back from the dead. We can get somebody out of prison!’”
Another Simple Favor is currently streaming on Prime Video.
