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,

Paul Feig’s thriller sequel Another Simple Favor is set for release on May 1st and there’s one Oscar-nominated actor who didn’t make the film’s final cut. In an Instagram post on Thursday, Sharon Stone said she was cast but then “unexpectedly” removed from a role in the sequel.

Another Simple Favor' stars Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Elizabeth Perkins, Allison Janney and more Sharon Stone claims she was hired for Another Simple Favor before being "unexpectedly" removed from the cast.