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Wait, Justin Baldoni Was Making a Pac-Man Movie?

By Mike Redmond | News | January 30, 2025 |

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As Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni fight their way through the press before landing in court later this year, more and more details about what went behind-the-scenes have been spilling out, mostly because Baldoni keeps doing things like leaking footage that he thinks exonerates him, but does the exact opposite. Confirming to the world that he was almost definitely the inspiration behind a Deadpool & Wolverine gag didn’t help either.

But we’re not here to talk about that, directly. According to a new report, while Baldoni was coordinating with his PR team in an effort to allegedly bury Lively, he boasted about his next big project: A Pac-Man movie, which he wrote in a text would help him move past the It Ends With Us drama and “towards the future.” Obviously, that was before he lit his reputation on fire, so that cinematic masterpiece will probably never see the light of day.

Via THR:

But Pac-Man, which Baldoni and his Wayfarer Studios were developing since 2022, may no longer be in his future. It is among at least a trio of projects that are now in doubt as friction with Lively turned from internet curiosity into a full-fledged legal war.

In recent days, sources close to Baldoni have said he has “lost three jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars” amid the legal fracas, which began when Lively filed a complaint Dec. 21 accusing Baldoni of sexual harassment on the set of It Ends With Us and launching a post-release smear campaign. Baldoni and Wayfarer were subsequently dropped by WME, which Wayfarer relied on to help package both their own projects and find third-party films to finance as an executive producer.

If you’re like me, your immediate thought was, “Wait a minute, isn’t Justin Baldoni the guy who routinely waxed poetic about art and activism and made things weird as hell for Lively because he was an auteur committed to authentic moments of human intimacy?” And the answer is, yup, that’s the guy whose next project is a f*cking Pac-Man movie.

I’d make a quip here, but sometimes, reality is the best punchline. There’s no way I can top that.