Justin Baldoni is constant his authorized campaign towards his “It Ends With Us” costar Blake Vigorous — he and his manufacturing firm simply filed a large lawsuit towards Blake, her husband Ryan Reynolds and her publicist Leslie Sloane … in search of tons of of thousands and thousands 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 costarred in with Blake.

In accordance with the docs, obtained by TMZ, Blake was “decided to make Baldoni the real-life villain in her story” to deflect from getting publicly trashed as “tone-deaf” throughout 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 struggle between himself and Blake actually began again in Might 2023 once they began taking pictures the film. He claims she was organizing a “takeover technique” as they battled for inventive management.

Justin additionally calls out Blake’s husband for getting concerned within the writing of the script. He says Blake had completed a rewrite of the movie’s vital rooftop scene the place the primary characters meet, they usually had a gathering at Blake and Ryan’s NYC penthouse to debate it — 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 … Blake’s pal Taylor Swift popped in together with her 2 cents, additionally applauding Blake’s model of the scene.

We must always observe Taylor is just not being sued — she’s solely talked about in passing within the go well with, however Justin says he “understood the subtext: he wanted to adjust to Vigorous’s path for the script.”

So, he later texted Blake to say he favored what she’d written and would’ve felt that approach even with out Ryan enter.

BTW, he is included their texts within the go well with, and in a single, Blake describes her Taylor and Ryan with a “Sport of Thrones” reference — “I am Khaleesi, and like her, I occur to have a couple of dragons … all of us profit from these attractive monsters of mine.”

The docs additionally embrace emails between the two actors from proper earlier than filming started, and Justin claims Blake “expressed heat gratitude” for all of the work they’d completed to arrange — however he additionally believes it was all a facade, so she might wrestle away management from him.

A few of their early battles have been about her character’s wardrobe — she needed wealthy and horny, however he identified she’s taking part in a struggling small biz proprietor.

He additionally claims Blake hadn’t learn the guide once they have been engaged on the script, including … “she even tried to Google the colour of her character’s hair fairly than choose up the guide.”

Justin additionally lays out his tackle the controversial and heated January 2024 assembly between himself, Blake, Ryan and several other different solid and crew members. He says Blake got here armed with a “17-point return to manufacturing demand” … as they have been making 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, instructed Wayfarer Blake refused to advertise the film, until they allowed her to do her personal lower — 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 lower.

Baldoni says his model “scored considerably greater with key viewers demographics” — however he claims “not surprisingly” Blake reneged on her promise, and insisted Sony launch her model … which it did. Justin says he primarily 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, the entire solid unfollowed Baldoni on social media, and backed Blake.

Justin says that is the place Blake’s PR staff, led by Leslie Sloane, kicked into excessive gear with a “marketing campaign to border [Blake] as a martyr and pin the blame” on Baldoni. He says Sloane teamed up together with his ex-publicist — who he’d lately fired — and mined her firm cellphone 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 varied media shops, together with TMZ, through which she allegedly tried to “divert consideration from Vigorous’s tyrannical habits 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 … she waited a number of weeks to serve the papers, finally doing so on the very day the fireplace exploded on Pacific Palisades.

He says whereas everybody was gathering belongings and expecting evacuation orders, “Vigorous — from the security of her penthouse in New York — deployed course of servers within the midst of those troubling instances.”

The go well with — for defamation, civil extortion, interference with contractual relations and slew of different allegations — is in search of at least $400 million in damages from Vigorous, Reynolds and Sloane.

In an announcement, publicists named within the Vigorous lawsuit inform TMZ … “It’s devastating that we’re compelled to reply this viciously egocentric ongoing litigation suffering from documented and provable lies within the midst of the tragedy impacting California the place we reside.”

They are saying Vigorous’s promotion of the film “triggered instantaneous damaging and natural backlash as a consequence of her personal extremely publicized actions” … they usually say she’s blaming them.

“Over the past month we’ve got obtained demise threats, abhorrent abuse and vile anti-semitic slurs hurled at us as a consequence of her determination to make use of us as scapegoats for her personal selections selling her movie through which she made thousands and thousands of {dollars}. With this submitting, we elevate our personal curtain of what occurs when the entitled weaponize energy, concern and cash to destroy, intimidate and bully those that get of their approach.”

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