Yahoo Lifestyle Amidst Her Legal Battle With Justin Baldoni, Blake Lively Was Defended By "A Simple Favor" Director Paul Feig
If you've been online at all over the last month, you know that the legal battle between It Ends with Us costars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni has become the latest thing that online trolls and right-wing dingbats can't shut up about.
The ensuing and nonstop chatter has even spilled into discourse around Another Simple Favor, the highly anticipated sequel to 2018's A Simple Favor directed by Paul Feig (who also did the first one, as well as a li'l film you might know called Bridesmaids).
Last month, Paul had to take to Twitter to deny rumors (one tweet, really) that the film had been shelved indefinitely by Amazon MGM because of Blake's legal goings-on. "This is total BS. Sorry," he posted. “The movie is finished and coming out soon. Don’t believe anything you read on social media these days.”
After the Twitter user asked Paul to "clarify" why the film hadn't received a release date yet, the director replied, “My friend, it’s called post production, which generally takes over half a year at least when you factor in editing, scoring, special effects, sound mixing, close captioning and all the technical quality control that has to be done."
Obviously, Paul wasn't playing around — because yesterday it was announced that Another Simple Favor will open the SXSW Film Festival on March 7 before hitting Amazon Prime Video on May 1.
When Paul announced the film's imminent release on his IG, the comments section quickly became an absolute disaster. Basically, whatever stupid comment referencing Blake and Justin's lawsuits that you can imagine — someone said it.
One commenter asked, "is it Paul Feig’s cut or Blake’s cut?” — referring to the fact that Justin and Blake had put together separate cuts of It Ends with Us to present to Sony (Blake's cut eventually won out). You can see that comment here.
Paul wasn't having it. “It’s my cut,” he replied. “There is no other cut. Blake has been nothing but supportive and a dream to work with."
"She is the best and an amazing collaborator and I’m her biggest fan. Just wanted to clear that up.”
And that's that!
