Justin Baldoni is dragging Taylor Swift into his legal battle with Blake Lively

In the latest complaint, Baldoni alleges that Reynolds and his famous singer Taylor Swift He pressured him to accept a rewritten version of Lively’s screenplay for “It Ends With Us.”

Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively were at loggerheads after the actress filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against him after they both started in the movie.

Baldoni has shed more light on what allegedly happened behind the scenes before he was able to bring Colleen Hoover’s best-selling novel “It Ends With Us” to life on the big screen.

In a $400 million lawsuit against Lively, Reynolds and a publicist, Baldoni claims the Deadpool actor and Taylor Swift pressured him to accept one of Lively’s rewrites for the film.

Baldoni shared that when the film reached pre-production, Lively allegedly asked to “take a pass” on the film’s rooftop scene, where her character Lily Bloom meets Baldoni’s Rael Kincaid for the first time.

according to People magazineThe actor noted that he was “reluctant” to let her “rewrite this key scene,” according to the complaint, but “agreed to take a look at what she had put together.”

Baldoni shared that Lively changed the script “significantly” from its original form. After his “very mild resistance,” she “kept silent for several days” and later said in an alleged text message that his reaction to her rewriting “wasn’t great for me” or for Reynolds and the person Baldoni described as “someone else.” Celebrity friend.

According to the news outlet, a text message he included in the filing reveals that Swift was the “influential and wealthy” celebrity friend Baldoni referred to.

Elsewhere in the 179-page complaint, Baldoni claims Lively did not appear to be impressed when he reached out to make her understand that her high-level friends had pressured him.

Baldoni notes that he was “summoned” to the penthouse at Reynolds & Lively in New York City, where Swift arrived and began “praising Lively’s script. Baldoni understood the subtext: he needed to comply with Lively’s directions to the script.”

He claimed that he later texted the “Gossip Girl” alum saying that he liked the changes she made and that he would have felt that way without “Ryan and Taylor” there.

However, Lively allegedly responded to his message by comparing herself to the “Game of Thrones” character Khaleesi and saying that Reynolds and Swift are her “dragons.”

A second alleged text from Lively included in the filing shows her likening Swift and Reynolds to “stage moms on the level of Dance Moms.”

It seemed that Vitality had a lot to say about having dragons to fight over. The alleged texts showed her harshly comparing herself to the fictional “GOT” character, and told Baldoni how her “dragons”, Swift and Reynolds, protect her.

“If you watch Game of Thrones, you’ll appreciate that I’m Khaleesi, and like her, I have some dragons. For better or worse, but usually for the better. Because my dragons also protect those I fight for, so we all benefit from those wonderful beasts that I have,” she told Baldoni. And you will benefit from it too, I can promise you that.

“They are embarrassingly extravagant,” she added in the alleged text messages, describing herself as “the luckiest in the world” to have them as her supporters and “most trusted partners.”

She added: “I think they wanted you and me to see how they felt about (the rewrite) because they had been by my side through so many overlooked experiences.

Before filing the $400 million lawsuit, the 40-year-old actor filed papers with Marvel CEO Kevin Feige, Disney CEO Bob Iger, and director Tim Mill regarding his client’s “anticipated allegations” against Reynolds, Levy, and other people he did not name.

The letter asked studio executives to retain “all documents related to the development of the character of Naisball” and “communications related to the development, writing and filming of storylines and scenes featuring Naisball.”

In a Jan. 7 appearance on “The Megyn Kelly Show,” Baldoni’s attorney, Brian Friedman, discussed Naisball’s character, alleging that Reynolds used it to mock his client.

“What Ryan Reynolds apparently did was use his power and influence… on Deadpool and to make fun of Justin Baldoni,” Friedman said. Daily Mail.

Baldoni’s attorney, Brian Friedman, issued a statement following his $400 million lawsuit, claiming that Lively would not win the court battle and would “regret” filing a lawsuit against his client.

“This lawsuit is a legal action based on a massive amount of untampered evidence detailing Blake Lively and her team’s deceptive attempt to destroy Justin Baldoni, his team, and their companies by publishing new, manipulated information that was blatantly edited and baseless,” Friedman said. to media.”

“It is clear based on our full willingness to present all of the full text messages, emails, video footage and other documentary evidence that was shared between the parties in real time, that this is a fight you will not and will not win,” the attorney continued. “He will definitely regret it.”