As at the box office, the movie is facing unexpected — and likely unwanted — attention on social media. TikTok has been flooded with speculation about a rift between star-producer and her co-star , who also directed the adaptation of ‘s beloved book. Not since ( ?), or maybe , have social media users been so dedicated to parsing a film’s press appearances like they are the Zapruder film.
Sources tell that there was a fracture among the filmmakers in the post-production process, wherein two different cuts of the movie emerged. The sleuthing on TikTok stemmed from Baldoni’s notable absence from joint press events, the lack of group photos of Lively and Baldoni together at Tuesday’s New York premiere, and the fact that Lively, Hoover, nor the rest of the cast, follow Baldoni on Instagram (though he follows them). This raised eyebrows, as during the development of the movie, Hoover and Baldoni appeared together on each other’s Instagrams multiple times Social media users also began speculating that Lively brought in her husband, Ryan Reynolds, to help take over creative control of the film.
This theory was stoked when Lively revealed at the film’s world premiere that Reynolds wrote a key rooftop scene toward the beginning of the movie. “We help each other. He works on everything I do.
I work on everything he does. So his wins, his celebrations are mine and mine are his,” . The film has a script from Christy Hall.
Reynolds did write a large chunk of dialogue fo.