Justin Baldoni On Directing ‘It Ends With Us’ Sequel: “There Are Better People For That One, I Think Blake Lively’s Ready To Direct”
deadline.comJustin Baldoni wants to pass on the It Ends With Us directing torch to his co-star Blake Lively. Amid rumored behind-the-scenes drama between the cast and Baldoni, the star and director of the Colleen Hoover novel is distancing himself from directing a sequel. “I think there are better people for that one,” the Jane the Virgin alum told Entertainment Tonight about directing a film sequel. “I think Blake Lively’s ready to direct.
That’s what I think.” It Ends With Us is an adaptation of the 2016 Colleen Hoover novel of the same name. The film, directed by Baldoni from a screenplay by Christy Hall, follows Lively’s Lily Bloom, a recent college graduate who moves to Boston to start a new chapter in her life.
When Lily meets Baldoni’s Ryle Kincaid, a neurosurgeon finishing his residency there, the two gravitate toward each other. Although Ryle doesn’t want a relationship, his attraction to Lily makes her the exception to his rule.
Their relationship is threatened when Lily’s first love, Atlas Corrigan (played by Brandon Sklenar), returns to her life. RELATED: Everything We Know About ‘It Ends With Us’ So Far Previews for It Ends With Us have banked the film $7M in the U.S.
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