If you’ve finished watching Another Simple Favor, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, then you know that the Another Simple Favor ending leaves the door open for A Simple Favor 3. Who could say no to Blake Lively in more fabulous outfits?
Directed by Paul Feig, with a script written by Jessica Sharzer and Laeta Kalogridis, Another Simple Favor is a sequel to the 2018 dark comedy thriller, A Simple Favor. Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick are back, as fellow moms and former best friends—until the sweet-tempered mommy vlogger Stephanie Smothers (Kendrick) uncovered the dark, murderous truth about the glamorous Emily Nelson (Lively). Now, Emily shows up back in Stephanie’s life. For revenge? Well, it’s complicated.
Spoiler alert: Another Simple Favor ends with Emily’s new mother-in-law asking her for “a simple favor” and handing Emily an envelope. It’s basically like Nick Fury coming to recruit Captain America for The Avengers. So will there be A Simple Favor 3? Here’s what we know about the possibility of a third Simple Favor movie.
Warning: Another Simple Favor spoilers ahead.
There are no official plans for A Simple Favor 3 at this time, but the Another Simple Favor ending certainly sets up a possible storyline for A Simple Favor 3, if a third movie does happen.
“We definitely set it up so [that] the story can continue,” director Paul Feig said in a recent interview with Decider. “I always like to have that open door, if you will. Who knows? We’ll see how the movie does and all that.”
In other words, while A Simple Favor 3 has not yet been green lit, it sounds like if the movie is a big hit for Amazon, then a third movie is a definite possibility.
When pressed if he would like to return as a director if A Simple Favor 3 were to happen, Feig replied, “I’m very open to it. Working with those two wonderful women is just the greatest.”
There is no A Simple Favor 3 release date yet, because right now we don’t know if A Simple Favor 3 is happening. If the movie does get green lit, we would expect to wait at least over a year for the A Simple Favor 3 release. Another Simple Favor took three years to make, from the announcement that it was happening to when it wrapped filming in late May 2024, although the production was delayed by the writers’ and actors’ strike. If A Simple Favor 3 does happen, we wouldn’t expect to see it until late 2026 or early 2027 at the earliest.
Again, A Simple Favor 3 has not been confirmed, so this is all speculation. However, the implication at the end of the sequel is that Portia—the mother of a now-deceased Italian gangster—is about to ask Emily to take over the family business, aka become an Italian mob boss.
Feig told Decider that could be an opportunity for some even more outlandish fashion for Blake Lively.
“The thought of what Emily looks [like], as she possibly works for the mob, is very exciting to me,” Feig said. “Because all the mob to me means is: You’ve got a lot of money!”