Simple Favor Director Addresses Blake Lively Rumor Amid Cute Law

Blake Lively‘coming up Simple Favor 2 It has not been canceled amid her ongoing legal battle, according to the film’s director.

Paul Feig responded to an online rumor on Friday, January 10, that movie studio Amazon has decided to shelve the project indefinitely as a result of Lively’s lawsuit against her It Ends With Us costar Justin Baldoni.

“This is total BS. I’m sorry. The movie is finished and coming out soon,” Feig, 62, wrote via X. “Don’t believe anything you read on social media these days.”

In a subsequent post, Feig praised Lively and costar Anna Kendrick for their work on the project.

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“The film is fantastic, and Blake and Anna turn in amazing performances,” he said gushed. “I can’t wait for you all to see it. Stay tuned for more details. Simple Favor 2 coming soon!”

Feig directed Lively, 37, and Kendrick, 39, inside 2018’s A Simple Favor about a single mother vlogger named Stephanie who investigates the mysterious disappearance of her friend Emily. Kendrick portrays Stephanie opposite Lively’s Emily.

Almost six years later in 2024, Lively and Kendrick reunited to film the upcoming sequel. That same year, Lively also worked with Baldoni, 40, on adaptation Colleen Hoover‘s It Ends With Us. (Baldoni also served as the film’s director, while Lively was an executive producer.)

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Lively suing Baldoni in December 2024 for alleged sexual harassment, claiming the Jane the Virgin alum fostered a “hostile work environment” on the set of the hit summer campaign. She also claimed that Baldoni tried to launch an alleged “social manipulation” campaign to destroy her career and reputation. Baldoni has vehemently denied the accusations and subsequently filed a $250 million lawsuit against the New York Times for their report outlining Lively’s claims.

“In this vicious smear campaign fully orchestrated by Blake Lively and her team, the New York Times woven into the wishes and whims of two powerful ‘untouchable’ Hollywood elites, disregarding journalistic practices and ethics that once befitted the revered publication by using manipulated and manipulated texts and deliberately omitting texts that’ n disagree with their preferred PR narrative,” Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman he said in a statement last month. “In doing so, they pre-determined the outcome of their story and aided and abetted their own destructive PR smear campaign designed to revive Lively’s self-indulgent sweeping public image and counter the organic basis of public criticism on- line. The irony is rich.”

Lively, meanwhile, denied the charges in its own statement.

“This lawsuit is based on the patently false premise that Ms. Lively’s administrative complaint against Wayfarer and others was a sham based on the choice not to file a lawsuit against Baldoni, Wayfarer, and that litigation was never in the ultimate goal,” said the actress. Us Weekly in a statement.