Director Paul Feig ‘Definitely’ Has Ideas for More Simple Favor Sequels That Get ‘Even Weirder’ (Exclusive)

• Another Simple Favor, a sequel to 2018’s A Simple Favor, debuted on Thursday, May 1
• Director Paul Feig tells PEOPLE he has ideas for where the story could go in a potential third installment
• “I definitely know where I want it to go,” the filmmaker teases

NOTE: This article contains spoilers for Another Simple Favor, now streaming on Prime Video.

Plenty more twists and turns are in store for Emily and Stephanie, if director Paul Feig has his way.

Another Simple Favor, a continuation of 2018’s A Simple Favor, marks the first sequel for the director, who is also known for hits like Bridesmaids (2011) and Spy (2015).

And in an interview with PEOPLE, Feig, 62, says he has mapped out what could happen next for Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick’s characters.

“I definitely know where I want it to go,” he says. “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.”

The latest film takes the action from small-town Connecticut to the scenic island of Capri, Italy. For a potential third film, “I think we need to take them out into the world even more,” says Feig.

At the end of Another Simple Favor, Stephanie (Kendrick, 39) reaches newfound fame as a true-crime author when she puts Emily’s long-lost triplet Charity (Lively, 37) behind bars disguised as Emily (also Lively).

Stephanie now cares for Emily’s son Nicky while Emily lives in secret in Rome, where her crime-boss mother-in-law Portia (Elena Sofia Ricci) hands her an envelope with a simple favor of her own. What could that request be? The answer remains unclear.

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A Simple Favor, the 2018 original, was based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Darcey Bell. The movie sequel’s screenwriters are Jessica Sharzer and Laeta Kalogridis, the latter of whom says, “I certainly would love to get to spend time with these characters and these actors again.”

Kalogridis adds that Feig “has quite the plan going on all the time.”

The director, though, was skeptical at first about doing the second film. “There were a lot of times in the development of this I tried to kill it because I was just like, ‘If we don’t get it right, let’s not do it,’ ” Feig said during a discussion at the 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival in March, per USA Today.

Beyond the potential setting, the Simple Favor spark comes from the “through-the-roof” chemistry between Kendrick and Lively, says Feig: “I literally cannot think of anybody who could play these roles other than them.”

Kalogridis adds that the duo “embody these characters so beautifully” — even when plot lines get “completely nuts.”

Another Simple Favor is now on Prime Video, while 2018’s A Simple Favor is currently streaming on Netflix.