Justin Baldoni’s Pac-Man Movie Up in the Air Amid Blake Lively Drama

Justin Baldoni’s ongoing legal drama with Blake Lively has impacted several of his upcoming projects, including a movie adaptation of the classic video game Pac-Man.

Us Weekly can confirm that the Pac-Man film is one of “three jobs” Baldoni, 41, and his company, Wayfarer Studios, may no longer produce due to their legal back-and-forth with Lively, 37. Baldoni and the studio have already lost “hundreds of millions of dollars” as a result of Lively’s sexual harassment lawsuits against the actor and director. (The Hollywood Reporter was the first to report the news.)

Baldoni’s live-action Pac-Man project has been in the works since 2022. Baldoni was set to direct the project and produce with Wayfarer’s Chuck Williams and Andrew Lazar, with Christopher Yost on board to write, per the production company’s website.

It is unknown which of Baldoni’s other upcoming projects have been affected by the legal drama, though it is likely the Pac-Man film could simply be pushed back until after the scandal is settled. However, several of Wayfarer’s business partners have been having conversations with the studio about the status of future projects.

Baldoni cofounded Wayfarer with Steve Sarowitz in 2019. In addition to It Ends With Us, the studio has produced several film projects such as Five Feet Apart, Clouds, The Garfield Movie, Ezra, Code 3 and the upcoming A Nice Indian Boy. The studio’s latest film, The Senior, hits theaters on March 7. Wayfarer also produced Scarlett Johansson’s upcoming directorial debut, Eleanor the Great, starring June Squibb and Chiwetel Ejiofor.

Baldoni and Wayfarer were dropped from their talent agency WME shortly after Lively accused Baldoni of inappropriate workplace behavior on the set of It Ends With Us and alleged he launched a smear campaign against her in her initial December 2024 lawsuit. (Lively made similar claims against Baldoni and publicists Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel in a legal complaint later that month.)

WME later denied that Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, pressured the agency into letting go of Baldoni and Wayfarer as clients.

Baldoni denied Lively’s accusations in a $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times — who first reported Lively’s initial lawsuit — and a $400 million lawsuit against Lively, Reynolds, 48, and her publicist, Leslie Sloane, filed earlier this month. Among his many claims, Baldoni alleges that Lively attempted to take over creative control of production on It Ends With Us, despite his role as the film’s director. Both Baldoni and Lively and their legal teams have vehemently denied each other’s legal accusations.

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York will address Lively’s gag order request against Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, in a pre-trial on Monday, February 3. The pair’s official trial date has been set for March 9, 2026.

Ahead of the pre-trial, Lively and Reynolds informed a federal judge on Thursday, January 30, that they will be seeking to dismiss Baldoni’s lawsuit against them, per Variety. (Us Weekly reached out to Baldoni’s reps for comment at the time.)