Justin Baldoni‘s ongoing legal battle with Blake Lively has begun to affect some of his future planned projects according to a new report from THR.
What do we know about Justin Baldoni’s Pac-Man movie?
According to THR’s new report, a planned Pac-Man movie, along with two other projects Baldoni was set to direct in the future, are now in doubt as he and Lively battle out their disagreements in court. More specifically, THR’s report notes that sources close to Baldoni say he has lost three jobs and upwards of “hundreds of millions of dollars” during the ongoing legal issues.
Not too much was known about the Pac-Man movie, but THR’s report mentions that Baldoni was hoping to “move towards the future” and planned to announce the movie as a way of distancing himself from his issues with Lively last year. That didn’t happen though, and now, per the report, partners with Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios are “having a conversation” as Baldoni goes up against giant names like Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds.
Lively’s complaint alleges that Baldoni created a hostile work environment
The lawsuit stems from a formal complaint that Blake Lively made against Baldoni last month. In it, she states that things got so bad during the filming of It Ends With Us that an all-hands-on-deck meeting was called in response to her claims of a hostile work environment. During the meeting, Lively asked that Baldoni stop showing her nude videos or images of women, that he stop mentioning his pornography addiction to her, that Baldoni stop discussing sexual experiences in front of her, and that he also stop mentioning Lively’s weight.
The complaint also claims that an agreement was made between production company Wayfarer Studios and the cast, in which the promotion of the movie would focus “more on [Lively’s character’s] strength and resilience as opposed to describing the film as a story about domestic violence.” However, Lively claims that Baldoni would renege on that and instead spoke in interviews about the film’s serious story.
Lively also claimed that Baldoni and his PR manager, Melissa Nathan, discussed ways to start a social media campaign to harm her reputation. The filing by Lively includes 22 pages of texts between Baldoni’s publicist and Nathan, in which they discuss wanting to have Lively “buried.”
