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 and in depth telling of the Hollywood story which has captured the global zeitgeist,” head of international at ITN Productions Ian Russell said in a statement ahead of the documentary’s premiere, per Variety.
Commissioning editor at 5, Denise Seneviratne, followed up with a statement of her own.
“This story has captivated the world, perpetuated by social media which is still gaining momentum,” she said. “It feels really pertinent for us as a channel to be making this film within the context of ‘#MeToo.’ We’re very happy to be working with ITN on this UK feature length version.”
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According to a report from Variety, a shortened version of the documentary is set to air in the United States later this month. The film was acquired by Investigation Discovery and will stream on Max and Discovery+ beginning March 31.
The documentary will chronicle the ins and outs of Lively and Baldoni’s legal battle surrounding their 2024 film It Ends With Us. (Lively starred as Lily Bloom with Baldoni, who also directed the project, portraying Ryle Kincaid.)
Lively, 37, named Baldoni, 41, in a December 2024 lawsuit alleging she was sexually harassed on set. She also claimed that Baldoni and his team fostered a hostile work environment.
Baldoni has continued to deny her allegations, filing two lawsuits of his own. He sued The New York Times — which published Lively’s complaint in full — for $250 million. The suit has since been put on pause after the newspaper filed to have it dismissed.
Baldoni also sued Lively, her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and publicist Leslie Sloane for $400 million. (Sloane has since filed to be removed from the suit. Lively and Reynolds have denounced Baldoni’s accusations.)
The actors are set to face off in court next year, but a judge previously stated that he will move up their trial date if the legal drama continues to play out in the press.
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Earlier this month, Lively’s request for a stronger protective order was partially granted, with some requests from Baldoni’s side being rejected. The protective order was modified to include an Attorneys’ Eyes Only provision, meaning some documents would only be seen by Lively and Baldoni’s respective legal teams.
“Today, the Court rejected the Wayfarer Parties’ objections and entered the protections needed to ensure the free flow of discovery material without any risk of witness intimidation or harm to any individual’s security,” a spokesperson for Lively told Us Weekly in a statement on March 13. “With this order in place, Ms. Lively will move forward in the discovery process to obtain even more of the evidence that will prove her claims in Court.”
Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, offered a statement of his own.
“We are fully in agreement with the Court’s decision to provide a narrow scope of protections to categories such as private mental health records and personal security measures that have never been of interest to us. As opposed to Ms. Lively’s exceedingly over broad demand for documents for a 2 [and a half] year period of time which the court rightly quashed,” he said, in part. “We remain focused on the necessary communications that will directly contradict Ms. Lively’s unfounded accusations. We will oppose any efforts by Ms. Lively and her team to hamper our clients’ ability to defend against her attacks by incorrectly categorizing important information as ‘trade secrets,’ especially considering there were no issues in providing these communications willingly to The New York Times.”
