Another Simple Favor is Blake Lively's first film following the It Ends With Us legal drama, which is still ongoing. The movie was a sequel to the commercially successful 2018 mystery A Simple Favor,

In a rather snarky social media post, Sharon Stone has claimed that she was cast and then dropped from Paul Feig’s upcoming thriller sequel “Another Simple Favor.” The Amazon MGM Studios film, which recently had its world premiere at SXSW and is due for release on May 1,

Sharon Stone reveals she was cast in Paul Feig's sequel, but was apparently "removed" from the film "for no reason at all"