On the eve of It Ends With Us ’ release on the 2024 movie schedule , rumors started to run around that there was a feud between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. While the actress played Lily and produced the film, the actor directed and played the antagonist Ryle. Now, as speculation runs rampant about what caused this alleged feud, Baldoni has opened up about who should direct the potential sequel, It Starts With Us , and his answer, which was Blake Lively, seems right.
At the premiere for this book-to-screen adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel, Baldoni was asked by ET if he’d be “willing to pull double duty again in the future." He smiled, laughed and said: You’re going to have to ask me in a little while. The ET interviewer then said she’d love to see him back in the director’s chair and playing Ryle in It Starts With Us – which is Colleen Hoover’s second book about Lily, and it follows her after the events of the first book and her run-in with her first-love Atlas.
To that point, Baldoni said: I think there are better people for that one. I think there are better people for that one. I think Blake Lively is ready to direct, that’s what I think.
As Blake Lively told me during CinemaBlend’s interviews for It Ends With Us while discussing the interpretation of her character’s inner monologue in the film, she had a lot of “authorship” when it came to Lily’s story. She’s also been open about having a lot of say in her character’s .
