Star Melissa McCarthy has previously said she would return to her role in 2015 comedy “Spy.”

Could comedy sequel Spy 2 happen? Paul Feig says, ‘I definitely have an idea’

Star Melissa McCarthy has previously said she would return to her role in 2015 comedy "Spy."

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Audiences might not have seen the last of Melissa McCarthy's *Spy *character, Susan Cooper.

Writer and director Paul Feig says it could happen.

"I definitely have an idea for a story for *Spy 2*, but I don't know," Feig told Slashfilm in an interview published Thursday. "I just don't know if that's the place to go right now. I'm having so much fun doing new things. And I'm so happy with *Spy*. But sometimes to go revisit something, you kind of go, 'Oh, we should have just left good enough alone.'"

***Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our EW Dispatch newsletter.******* Released in 2015, *Spy *was about a CIA analyst who usually spends all day at her desk going undercover to help on a big case. The cast is packed with stars, including Jude Law, Rose Byrne, Allison Janney, Bobby Cannavale, Morena Baccarin, and Jason Statham.

This is a big deal, since Feig, known for being behind the cameras on movies such as *Bridesmaids* and *The Heat *— both also with McCarthy —* *has often been against returning to a story.

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"I used to say I don't want to do sequels," Feig noted. "And then I did *Another Simple Favor*, but that felt like five years, and we had an idea for a story that felt good."

The *Another Simple Favor*, which came out in March, was the follow-up to the 2018 dark comedy *A Simple Favor*, which, starred Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick. Both women returned for the sequel, which earned mixed reviews but also left open the possibility of even more movies.

Paul Feig and Melissa McCarthy pictured in 2016.

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So he's not *completely* averse to them. It could happen.

For what it's worth, McCarthy is very much for it, as she said in a 2024 episode of *Watch What Happens Live*, after host Andy Cohen asked when a sequel would finally come.

"Somebody set it up," she said. "I've been saying it for years. Since the day we ended doing it. I was like, 'Let's re-rack it and do it again.' I'm in. I think everybody that did it [is]. We've all talked about it. We're like, 'Let's do it!'"**

Feig's latest movie, *The Housemaid*, which stars Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried, arrives in theaters Dec. 19.

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