A Easy Favor 2 director Paul Feig has shut down rumours that Blake Vigorous had brought on the forthcoming sequel to be shelved.
On Friday (January 10), an X/Twitter person had alleged – based mostly on “insider accounts” – that the Gossip Lady actress refused to advertise the sequel to the 2018 crime thriller, citing “her messy authorized battle with Justin Baldoni and rising tensions with Anna Kendrick”.
Baldoni and Vigorous starred in romantic drama It Ends With Us, and Vigorous lately launched a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment by him on the set of the movie, in addition to claiming he performed a smear marketing campaign towards her.
Denying the accusations, Baldoni has additionally launched a lawsuit towards The New York Occasions, who initially reported the case, and has pledged to counter-sue his former co-star. His lawyer Bryan Freedman advised CBS Information that the newspaper “aided and abetted” a “smear marketing campaign designed to revitalise Vigorous’s… floundering public picture”.
Though the authorized battle is certainly ongoing, director Feig addressed claims that Vigorous’s private life had interfered with the discharge of the sequel, writing: “That is whole BS. Sorry.”
“The film is completed and popping out quickly,” he added. “Don’t imagine something you learn on social media today.”
That is whole BS. Sorry. The film is completed and popping out quickly. Don’t imagine something you learn on social media today. https://t.co/UDkWZzbIvp
— Paul Feig (@paulfeig) January 11, 2025
When the identical person responded, asking the Bridesmaids director why Amazon hadn’t set a launch date “for a movie that wrapped in April 2024”, and why there have been “no promo plans” but, Feig as soon as once more set the document straight.
“My buddy, it’s referred to as put up manufacturing, which usually takes over half a 12 months at the very least if you think about modifying, scoring, particular results, sound mixing, shut captioning and all of the technical high quality management that must be accomplished,” he wrote. “Our put up schedule all the time had us ending all the pieces by mid-January.”
Per Deadline, Amazon Studios and Lionsgate beforehand introduced the sequel in 2022, with unique forged members Henry Golding, Andrew Rannells, Bashir Salahuddin, Joshua Satine, Ian Ho and Kelly McCormack additionally returning.
Within the sequel, Stephanie Smothers (Kendrick) and Emily Nelson (Vigorous) jet to Italy for Emily’s extravagant marriage ceremony to a wealthy businessman, with homicide and betrayal anticipated alongside the best way.
