Justin Baldoni Demands Marvel Preserve "All Documents Relating" To Nicepool In DEADPOOL AND WOLVERINE

Justin Baldoni Demands Marvel Preserve "All Documents Relating" To Nicepool In DEADPOOL AND WOLVERINE

The ongoing legal battle between It Ends With Us co-stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni has been taken to some surprising places, with the latter's lawyer sending a litigation hold letter to Kevin Feige.

By MarkCassidy - Jan 15, 2025 09:01 AM EST
Filed Under: Deadpool & Wolverine

As the ongoing legal battle between Blake Lively and her It Ends With Us director and co-star Justin Baldoni continues to heat up, the latter's lawyer has sent a litigation hold letter to Marvel Studios and Disney, demanding that they share all documents relating to the development of the Nicepool character in Deadpool and Wolverine.

In the movie, Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) and Logan (Hugh Jackman) encounter a Multiverse variant of the Merc With a Mouth in the Void. Nicepool is, well, nice, friendly and helpful... and not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer.

The character has a number of exchanges with the OG Deadpool that certainly could be construed as making reference to some of Lively's accusations against the actor. At one point, Nicepool compliments Ladypool for “snapping back” into shape after giving birth. When Deadpool tells his variant that he's "not sure he can say that," Nicepool responds by claiming that “It’s okay, I identify as a feminist.”

Lively, who made a brief appearance as Ladypool in the movie, has accused Baldoni of sexually harassing and fat-shaming her post-partum body while filming It Ends With Us, and Baldoni is convinced that Reynolds was "flagrantly mocking" him with the creation of Nicepool.

Per Variety, the litigation hold letter calls for Marvel and Disney to preserve “any and all documents relating to the development of the Nicepool character” as well as “communications relating to the development, writing, and filming of storylines and scenes featuring Nicepool.” Baldoni's attorney is also calling for the studio to retain “any and all documents relating to or reflecting a deliberate attempt to mock, harass, ridicule, intimidate, or bully Baldoni through the character of Nicepool.”

Baldoni has not actually sued Lively or Reynolds yet, but it sounds like a suit is imminent.

What do you make of this situation? Do you think Nicepool was a blatant mockery of Baldoni, or is the actor reading way too much into this? Be sure to let us know what you think in the comments section.

The MPAA gave Deadpool and Wolverine an official R-rating for: "Strong bloody violence and language throughout, gore, and sexual references."

“Marvel Studios presents their most significant mistake to date - Deadpool & Wolverine," reads the new synopsis. "A listless Wade Wilson toils away in civilian life. His days as the morally flexible mercenary, Deadpool, behind him. When his homeworld faces an existential threat, Wade must reluctantly suit-up again with an even more reluctantlier... reluctanter? Reluctantest? He must convince a reluctant Wolverine to - F*ck. Synopses are so f*cking stupid.”

In addition to Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in the title roles, Deadpool and Wolverine will see Morena Baccarin (Vanessa), Leslie Uggams (Blind Al), Rob Delaney (Peter), Brianna Hildebrand (Negasonic Teenage Warhead) And Shioli Kutsuna (Yukio) return as their respective characters, and they'll be joined by franchise newcomers Emma Corrin (The Crown) and Matthew Macfadyen (Succession), who will play a TV agent and Charles Xavier's evil counterpart, Cassandra Nova.

Shawn Levy directs Deadpool and Wolverine from a script by Ryan Reynolds, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, and Zeb Wells.

The movie is now available on Digital platform, Disney+ and DVD/Blu-ray.

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Spidey91
Spidey91 - 1/15/2025, 9:08 AM
Lmao, what a f*cking loser.
HagridsHole1
HagridsHole1 - 1/15/2025, 9:09 AM
He's lost his mind. Hasn't he ?
SATW42
SATW42 - 1/15/2025, 9:09 AM
So ridiuclous. Not one person watched Deadpool, saw nicepool and thought "That's Baldoni"

There is no case here, it's all publicity to try this in the court of public opinion.
Conquistador
Conquistador - 1/15/2025, 9:19 AM
@SATW42 - I particular like his earlier attempt at a defence by releasing his texts where he said he was invited to her trailer whilst she was pumping, trying to negate her complaint of him and his colleague and going in and out of her trailer whilst breast feeding.

Like did him and his lawyer not think that one through. Two seperate things.

This one is going to be interesting though as I don't think either party is going to come out looking as though they've won as I do think there's some validity to A couple of Baldoni's points.
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 1/15/2025, 9:26 AM
@Conquistador - good to see that someone can keep up unlike others who are quick to judge in defense of their Marvel lords without knowing a thing about the issue
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 1/15/2025, 9:58 AM
@SATW42 - Even if some make that jump there is a level of legal protection for lampooning in media such that unless explicit there is no case to answer ever. A vague may have in part inspired he may have said a bad thing, zero legal grounds to go on and trying to litigate could be used against him to imply he did say bad things else why would he try to sue for something so vague in the film.
THEKENDOMAN
THEKENDOMAN - 1/15/2025, 9:12 AM
If this is actually facts.

Ryan has [frick]ed up.

Because I won’t lie , Deadpool did nicepool dirty.

And Marvel may use those against him cause I know they do not like drama.

For [frick]s sake

TheFinestSmack
TheFinestSmack - 1/15/2025, 9:24 AM
@THEKENDOMAN - Thank you for not lying about Deadpool doing Nicepool dirty.
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 1/15/2025, 9:13 AM
This [frick]ing guy.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 1/15/2025, 9:15 AM
I may only be a small town bird lawyer... but even if Nicepool was mocking Baldoni, can he take legal action? It's a parody for gods sake.
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 1/15/2025, 9:22 AM
@MarkCassidy - frim whatnive heard, it was about the claim of Blake that there was no intimacy coordinator on their film which Baldoni claimed false and with proof. The nicepool lines seem to support the claim of Blake so i think this can be used in court
TheFinestSmack
TheFinestSmack - 1/15/2025, 9:27 AM
@MarkCassidy - Even if it is mocking Baldoni, I'm not sure that nearly as many people would have made the connection, had Baldoni not pointed it out lol. Dude Streisand-ed himself.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 1/15/2025, 10:02 AM
@MarkCassidy - No, he can't, if never once named not even close as there is levels of protection under law for lampooning even when obvious otherwise a certain someone would already have won in court multiple times over with almost every late night chat show over the last 8yrs or more in America.
SATW42
SATW42 - 1/15/2025, 10:10 AM
@vectorsigma - it doesn't matter though because you can still reference things as a joke without there being legal action. JD Vance didn't actually have a part in his book where he talked about [frick]ing a couch, and yet every comedian, late night host, news sites etc all covered it and made jokes like it actually happened.

And how many lawsuits are their, none, because there's no case.
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 1/15/2025, 10:33 AM
@SATW42 - i think in Baldonis perspective, whatever it is that Blake is accusing him, he can use whatever line of dialogue there was in the movie as proof to counter those accusations. I think it is not only in the joke as they are. I dont kniw the comokete details as well but from what ive heard, it was blake who fired first and from what ive heard, baldoni has receipts to counter. Maybe using nicepool is too much but this is hollywood and he needs all the clout he can get as he is against some big names.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 1/15/2025, 9:16 AM
Justin Baldioni woke up and decided to make a fool of himself in front of a global audience. That's a choice right there.
V
V - 1/15/2025, 9:17 AM
Who is this Baldoni guy? Talk about egomaniacal maniac here, hope we never have to hear about him again
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 1/15/2025, 9:24 AM
@V - I think he played himself in this movie
V
V - 1/15/2025, 9:53 AM
@HashTagSwagg - 😂 the irony of life
Itwasme
Itwasme - 1/15/2025, 9:17 AM
I don't understand what his case would be. Even if Reynolds is privately mocking him, the public doesn't know that. And even if it was public, it's satire and I doubt defamation would be at play and its definitely not harassment. So I don't see what the legal grounds are. Anyone have any ideas?
Shivermetimbers
Shivermetimbers - 1/15/2025, 9:22 AM
@Itwasme - he is trying to use this as a way of saying that no one who has serious concerns about their wife being sexually harassed would make jokes about the harasser. Showing that it wasn’t actually a serious issue that Lively is trying to claim it was.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 1/15/2025, 10:06 AM
@Shivermetimbers - Only thing that makes sense, trying to somehow use it not with any expectation he'd win against Disney and no intent to take Disney to court but as leverage to downplay another case. Doubt it would work for that at all however and could even be counter productive as could be seen as implied admission that he did do the things that were supposedly lampooned.
SATW42
SATW42 - 1/15/2025, 10:11 AM
@Apophis71 - "and could even be counter productive as could be seen as implied admission that he did do the things that were supposedly lampooned."

EXACTLY
SATW42
SATW42 - 1/15/2025, 10:15 AM
@Shivermetimbers - Which is an absurd line of thinking. I don't want to get political so I'll purposefully use both sides of the aisle. There are plenty of people who think both the Trumps and the Clintons are dangerous and the downfall of democracy. But plenty of people mock them. It doesn't take away the seriousness of how harmful you think those people are or that you don't take them seriously.

Jon Stewart mocks Trump regularly, but at no point do I think he doesn't take him seriously. It's literally the stupidest argument this lawyer is trying to make.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 1/15/2025, 10:21 AM
@SATW42 - An example slightly less likely to have backlash...

...Hitler was lampooned continuously throughout WWII even effectively by the leaders of the allied forces in officialy sanctioned propoganda posters and the like and has been non stop ever since. Nobody is ever going to say that the leaders of the allied forces didn't take Hitler seriously or that any/all who have mocked him since didn't consider all that his leadership led to was evil in the extreme with lasting serious global impacts.
Itwasme
Itwasme - 1/15/2025, 10:43 AM
@Shivermetimbers - maybe. I get that it might play into his defense, but they are talking of counter-suing and that's where they lost me.
Itwasme
Itwasme - 1/15/2025, 10:46 AM
@Shivermetimbers - it's also not a very good defense to say that you can say and do these things because their husband is allowed to. Their relationship is obviously different. Idk enough about it to really comment, but I've seen so many articles I finally fell for the bait, but I still don't see their play here.
Shivermetimbers
Shivermetimbers - 1/15/2025, 10:52 AM
@Itwasme @Satw42 Apophis71 - Yeah, I agree that it is a very poorly conceived strategy that will almost certainly backfire on him. He just seems to be grasping at straws at this point. I mean, I kind of admire the fact that he is fighting back, since I dont recall ever seeing one of these guys try to fight getting "cancelled" as hard as he is, but he is looking very desperate. That said, I think they are probably both in the wrong to certain degrees. He probably just crossed a line he didn't realize was there, with someone who he thought he had a better relationship with than he did. I'm sick of hearing about it.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 1/15/2025, 9:19 AM
I figured Nicepool was just a pure hearted Canadian. This jackass is reaching for the moon
thedrudo
thedrudo - 1/15/2025, 9:19 AM
@bobevanz - Bingo
thedrudo
thedrudo - 1/15/2025, 9:19 AM
Kind of odd he is going after them for this too. Seems like it’s kind of showing he believes it’s about him.
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 1/15/2025, 9:20 AM
Drumroll on Marvel and Reynolds defenders without even looking at the points of the other side regarding the talk on the intimacy coordinator.

SATW42
SATW42 - 1/15/2025, 10:16 AM
@vectorsigma - but it doesn't matter. Even if Blake lied about that, and Reynolds knew it, and made a joke about it in his movie, THAT'S NOT AGAINST ANY LAWS. That's the point were making.
ItsNotForMeWahh
ItsNotForMeWahh - 1/15/2025, 9:23 AM
Just like the other annoying folks that won't do it, just

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Polaris
Polaris - 1/15/2025, 9:30 AM
So he heard the "snapping back" comment and thought "that's me!" lol. He's making himself look worse and doesn't even realize it. It's pathetic. Even IF he was the inspiration behind the character, so what? There would be no mockery because nobody in the audience knew what the inspiration was.
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 1/15/2025, 9:32 AM
Lolz at the butthurt marvel loyalists defending reynolds without knowing a thing about the issue aside from this one 🤣🤣🤣
cheeseburger
cheeseburger - 1/15/2025, 10:11 AM
@vectorsigma - seems you’re quite butt hurt that you bff Justin is called out for who he really is
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 1/15/2025, 10:34 AM
@cheeseburger - ok. Lolz
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 1/15/2025, 9:34 AM
And even if the audience didnt know, he has claims to disprove Blake's own claims and the proof is in the nicepool quotes, that is why he is asking marvel.

And here are guys quick to judge because their DP lord has been hurt 🤣🤣🤣🤣
BruceWayng
BruceWayng - 1/15/2025, 9:36 AM
Just another “male feminist” folks…These dudes are all frauds who seemingly always have alternative motives-which more often involve them banging the women they want to “support” and “elevate”.

They’re just a bunch of soft ass little bitch boys who never learned how to talk to girls growing up and can only get puss by lying and deceiving women.

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