Pac-Man

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Justin Baldoni’s ‘Pac-Man’ Movie in Doubt Amid Blake Lively Legal Battle

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In August, Justin Baldoni believed Pac-Man, the yellow, pellet-eating protagonist of the 1980s arcade game, could be the hero he needed to help change the messy narrative surrounding the release of It Ends with Us.

 

For weeks, rumors of a feud between director/star Baldoni and his co-star Blake Lively had dominated entertainment news headlines, and he was looking for a way to turn the page. According to a text he sent his PR team on Aug. 18, Baldoni suggested sharing the news that he would next direct a Pac-Man movie, something he hoped would help him “move towards the future.”

 

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.

 

Aside from Pac-Man, it is unclear what other projects were lost, and it’s possible once the dust settles, the adaptation of the seminal ’80s video game could happen at a later date for Baldoni. But insiders close to the situation tell THR that virtually every partner doing business with Wayfarer is “having a conversation.” The outfit has deep pockets at a time when many indie financing companies have fallen by the wayside, or are facing tough times, but Lively and husband Ryan Reynolds, whom Baldoni is taking to court in his own suit, wield tremendous clout in Hollywood, so it’s unclear how much collateral damage there will be for Wayfarer.

 

Bandai Namco, the video game company behind Pac-Man, did not respond to a request for comment on the project, which had Thor: Ragnarok scribe Christopher Yost penning the script.