Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s ongoing legal drama is getting the docuseries treatment.
The project, which has been titled Baldoni vs Lively: A Hollywood Feud, is in the works for Discovery+. The doc will follow the lead-up to the impending court battle between the It Ends With Us costars.
Baldoni vs Lively: A Hollywood Feud will be produced by Optomen for Warner Bros. Discovery UK & Ireland. The team behind Baldoni vs Lively: A Hollywood Feud also put out docuseries about Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s trial and Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s divorce.
Baldoni vs Lively: A Hollywood Feud is set to drop in June in the U.K. Details about its United States release have yet to be annouced.
The news of another docuseries comes shortly after ITN Productions dropped the doc He Said, She Said: Blake Lively vs. Justin Baldoni, which aired on Channel 5 in the U.K. earlier this month. He Said, She Said: Blake Lively vs. Justin Baldoni is available to stream on Max and Discovery+ as of Monday, March 31.
Lively, 37, and Baldoni’s legal drama began in December 2024, when the actress filed a lawsuit against her former It Ends With Us costar and director. Lively accused Baldoni, 41, of sexual harassment and ruining her reputation.
Baldoni denied the allegations and countersued Lively, her husband, Ryan Reynolds and her publicist, Leslie Sloane, for $400 million. According to court documents obtained by Us Weekly, Lively and Reynolds have filed to dismiss Baldoni’s lawsuit after denying the accusations. Sloane, for her part, requested to be removed from the lawsuit.
The legal battle is ongoing and scheduled for trial in March 2026.
In addition to suing Lively, Baldoni filed a $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times, who broke the news of Lively’s initial complaint. The outlet, which has defended its reporting, has since filed to dismiss the lawsuit. Earlier this month, Judge Lewis J. Liman granted The New York Times’ request to pause the lawsuit after reviewing their motion to dismiss. Baldoni alleged in an additional filing that a “jury must decide” if The New York Times is responsible for their involvement in the actor’s ongoing legal battle against Lively.
“The flaws in the Baldoni/Wayfarer case were made clear last week in their own legal filing when they asked the court for yet another opportunity to amend their complaint to try to make it legally sufficient,” the outlet said in a statement to Us. “We are looking forward to addressing the various problems in their latest brief when we file our reply later this week.”
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s legal drama is getting the documentary treatment. England’s ITN Productions is behind a new 90-minute documentary titled He Said, She Said: Blake Lively vs Justin Baldoni, which is set to air on the U.K.’s Channel 5 on Monday, March 17. “Produced by ITN’s transatlantic team this special is a timely […]
Baldoni has also sought legal action against one of his former publicists, Stephanie Jones. Baldoni and publicist Jennifer Abel accused Jones, who is the head of Jonesworks PR, of leaking the texts that led to Lively’s accusation of a smear campaign against her. Balodni and Abel accused Jones of taking Abel’s work phone and giving it to Lively and her team, who allegedly searched the phone for text messages to take out of context in an effort to make it appear that Baldoni’s side was building a smear campaign against Lively.
“It is undeniable that Stephanie Jones initiated this catastrophic sequence of events by violating the most basic of privacy rights, as well as any remaining trust her clients held,” Baldoni’s attorney Bryan Freedman said in a statement to Us. “No stranger to stirring up crisis scenarios for departing clients, Ms. Jones maliciously turned over communications from the phone she wrongfully took from her own partner to her cohort Leslie Sloane, immediately after Jones was terminated for cause by Wayfarer due to her own wrongful behavior.”
Baldoni’s lawsuit came after Jones initially sued him, Abel and others, claiming that the group was behind the orchestration of the alleged smear campaign. She also accused them of breach of contract and trying to steal her clients for themselves.
