The battle of the It Ends With Us co-stars continues. Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni might not be heading to court until March 2026, but when they do they won’t be alone.

Reports suggest Lively’s friends, including Taylor Swift, who was allegedly referred to as ‘one of my dragons’ in a text from Lively to Baldoni, and Hugh Jackman, who starred alongside Lively’s husband Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool & Wolverine and spent time with the couple as the feud played out. According to the Daily Mail, both stars will ‘definitely be served this week’.

A subpoena is a written command ordering a person to attend court. ‘It could happen at any time,’ an insider told the publication, who added that Swift has been ‘waiting’. In Baldoni’s lawsuit, he alleges that he was invited to Lively and Reynolds’ New York penthouse where one of her ‘famous and famously close’ friends, widely thought to be Swift, praised her rewrites of the script. Baldoni then included text messages allegedly from Lively where she wrote, ‘If you ever get around to watching Game of Thrones, you’ll appreciate that I’m Khaleesi, and like her, I happen to have a few dragons.’

‘For better or worse, but usually better,’ she wrote. ‘Because my dragons also protect those I fight for. So really we all benefit from those gorgeous monsters of mine. You will too, I can promise you.’

The publication of this exchanged unwittingly dragged Swift into an incredibly messy and highly publicised feud. According to Page Six’s source, Swift ‘can’t help but feel used’ by Lively. However, another source said the singer ‘is a strong woman’ who is ‘not afraid’ of being dragged into the drama. Apparently, Lively has offered her friend a ‘heartfelt apology’ and Swift is ‘ready to move forward’.

If only it were that simple. This is a feud that started on the set of the adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s best-selling novel, It Ends With Us, and will continue into next year. After evident tension between the cast when the film came out, with Baldoni and Lively avoiding each other during red carpet appearances and press junkets, it came to a head at the end of December when Lively filed a lawsuit against Baldoni accusing him of sexual harassment and launching a smear campaign to destroy her reputation during the press run.

Baldoni’s team called the allegations ‘categorically false’ and filed their own counter lawsuit the same day. In response to the New York Times article that first reported Lively’s claims, Baldoni’s lawyers filed a $250 million (£187.9 million) libel lawsuit again the publication. He then filed a $400 million (£300 million) lawsuit against Lively and Reynolds on claims of civil extortion, defamation and invasion of privacy. Lively’s team called the lawsuit ‘another chapter in the abuser playbook’.

Since then, the picture has only worsened. The case has received widespread global attention in the media, birthing thousands of TikTok takes from makeshift detectives. Both Baldoni and Lively continue to bring forth new claims on a regular basis and it looks near impossible that any of the aforementioned disputes will be settled or resolved outside of court.

Baldoni, for his part, has also leveraged separate accusations at Reynolds, claiming that he based the Nicepool character – a faux feminist with a man bun – in Deadpool & Wolverine off him as a way of bullying him. This is where Jackman is implicated.

Jackman’s close friendship with the couple, particularly during post production and the press run of Deadpool & Wolverine, which came out a few weeks before It Ends With Us, meant he spent a lot of time with them and was pictured supporting Lively on the red carpet and vice versa. According to another source, Jackman might be deposed so that Baldoni’s team can get ‘the full scope of Reynolds’ conduct’ during the time It Ends With Us was being filmed. ‘Hugh will be deposed if this goes to trial,’ they said, ‘there is no way that he cannot.’

‘Baldoni’s legal team is doing everything they need to do to get a full scope of Ryan’s conduct during the time that It Ends With Us was filmed. As Ryan’s good friend, who starred in the film and was with Blake and Ryan many times in private during that time, his deposition will likely be crucial. They are not going to leave any stone unturned.’

We still have a long way to go before we see Lively, Baldoni and their motley crew of allies, complainants and celebrity friends heading to court, but it will no doubt become a blockbuster trial when they do. One that has already eclipsed the film that started it all in the first place.