Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios Sue Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds and Publicist

Justin Baldoni is constant his authorized campaign towards his “It Ends With Us” costar Blake Lively — he and his manufacturing firm simply filed an enormous lawsuit towards Blake, her husband Ryan Reynolds and her publicist Leslie Sloane … in search of a whole bunch of tens of millions of {dollars}.

Justin and his firm, Wayfarer Studios, which produced “It Ends With Us,” filed the federal go well with ripping Blake and Leslie for his or her alleged marketing campaign to smear Baldoni and snatch away management of the film … which he directed and co-starred in with Blake.

In response to the docs, obtained by TMZ, Blake was “determined to make Baldoni the real-life villain in her story” to deflect from getting publicly trashed as “tone-deaf” through the movie’s media tour.

Justin says she was selling her haircare and alcohol line whereas selling a movie about home violence.

Within the go well with, Justin says the battle between himself and Blake actually began again in Might 2023 once they began taking pictures the film. He claims she was organized a “takeover strategy” as they battled for inventive management.

Justin additionally calls out Blake’s BFF Taylor Swift and her husband Ryan Reynolds for getting concerned within the writing of the script. He says Blake had achieved a rewrite on the movie’s crucial rooftop scene the place the principle characters meet.

He says they’d a gathering at Blake and Ryan’s NYC penthouse concerning the rewrite — however he now feels it was extra of an ambush. Justin says Ryan was there from the beginning, singing the praises of Blake’s rewrite, after which hours later … Taylor popped in along with her 2 cents, additionally applauding Blake’s model of the scene.

Within the go well with, Justin he “understood the subtext: he needed to comply with Lively’s direction for the script.” So, he later texted Blake to say he favored what she’d written and would’ve felt that method even with out Ryan and Taylor’s enter.

BTW, he is included their texts within the go well with, and in a single Blake describes her hubby and BFF with a “Game of Thrones” reference — “I’m Khaleesi, and like her, I happen to have a few dragons … we all benefit from those gorgeous monsters of mine.”

The docs additionally embody emails between the two actors from proper earlier than filming started, and Justin claims Blake “expressed warm gratitude” for all of the work they’d achieved to organize — however he additionally believes that was all a facade, so she may wrestle away management from him.

A few of their early battles have been about whether or not her character’s wardrobe — she wished wealthy and horny, however he identified she’s enjoying a struggling small biz proprietor.

He additionally claims Blake hadn’t learn the e book once they have been engaged on the script, including … “she even tried to Google the color of her character’s hair rather than pick up the book.”

Justin additionally lays out his tackle the controversial and heated January 2024 assembly between himself, Blake, Ryan and a number of other different solid and crew members. He says Blake got here armed with a “17-point return to production demand” … as they have been getting ready for re-shoots on the movie. That is the assembly when Ryan allegedly went off on Justin for the alleged sexual harassment that went on throughout filming.

Justin’s description is fairly colourful, saying “Blake unleashed Reynolds on Baldoni and Wayfarer.” He claims, though he gave in to most of Blake’s calls for, she continued to threaten to torpedo the film until she obtained to chop her personal model of the movie.

Sony Studios, the movie’s distributor, advised Wayfarer Blake refused to advertise the film, until they allowed her to do her personal reduce — so, they made it a contest. Justin says each his model and Blake’s can be proven to an viewers, and whichever examined higher … can be the ultimate reduce.

Baldoni says his model “scored significantly higher with key audience demographics” — however he claims “not surprisingly” Blake reneged on her promise, and insisted Sony launch her model … which it did. Justin says he basically was compelled to fireside himself from directing the film.

Even in spite of everything that capitulation, he claims the strain and smearing continued … because the film was rolled out, all the solid unfollowed Baldoni on social media, and backed Blake.

Justin says that is the place Blake’s PR group, led by Leslie Sloane, kicked into excessive gear with a “campaign to frame [Blake] as a martyr and pin the blame” on Baldoni. He says Sloane teamed up together with his ex-publicist — who he’d just lately fired — and mined her firm telephone for a slew of texts they used to “concoct a false narrative” about Baldoni.

The go well with features a ton of texts Sloane despatched to numerous media shops, together with TMZ, through which she allegedly tried to “divert attention from Lively’s tyrannical behavior on set.”

BTW, the California wildfires even get a point out within the 179-page lawsuit. Baldoni says though Blake filed her authorized motion towards him in late December — on the “eve of the winter holidays,” as he put it … nevertheless, she waited a number of weeks to serve the papers, finally doing so on the very day the hearth exploded on Pacific Palisades.

He says whereas everybody was gathering belongings and awaiting evacuation orders, “Lively — from the safety of her penthouse in New York — deployed process servers in the midst of these troubling times.”

The go well with is in search of at least $400 million in damages from Lively and Sloane.

As we reported, Baldoni can be suing The New York Instances for $250 million over the newspaper’s bombshell article alleging he and others coordinated a smear marketing campaign towards Blake.