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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tell-all books are so boomer coded. Especially since he has all of the receipts, I bet Baldoni does a tell-all docu-series on this and he makes a boatload of money. If that boring nitwit Megan Markle can get $60 million from Netflix for an awful cooking show nobody watched, why couldn't Baldoni get $100 million for something like this? It'll break the internet.[/quote]

People will only buy this if it dishes dirt. No one actually cares about Baldoni but his book might make a splash if it includes gossip/details about Blake and Ryan not already in the press. Which would be hard because so much already came out in discovery. If it's just a rehash of that, no one will care.

Also Baldoni has an annoying personality so he needs to be careful now. Right now Blake is seen as the loser and villain. But if he does a splashy book, even one that has info making Blake look bad, but people find him annoying or off-putting in the promotion, they will turn on him. He's been very quiet through all this, which is to his benefit, but it creates a risk of spoiling the good will if people decide they don't really like him after all.[/quote]

I’m not a fan of Baldoni, but I don’t think he will do a tell all with sordid tabloid like details. He’s not an idiot and he’s not going to go gloat if he hasn’t already while Blake is running around at the met gala and fendi. We saw a lot of texts from him during a time when someone was actively trying to destroy his life and he seemed pretty centered and even-keeled. He seems to take his religion seriously and he and Jamey have seemed to take a lot of comfort in prayer and their family and working on the projects that they love. I don’t think he’s out for revenge.

NAG did a really nice interview with Kevin Fritz from the wayfarer legal team. Fritz is the anti Bryan Friedman. Not flashy, doesn’t seem at all knowledgeable or enamored with celebrity culture, very calm, seems like a nerdy lawyer. He said that from the start through the end, Jamey and Justin wanted the opportunity to get their side out, and if meant going all the way to a jury trial, they knew the risks but they could sleep at night knowing they got their side out and that was what was decided. They did not wish this to be brought on them, but it was and that’s how they dealt with it.

I don’t get the vibe he wants to punish Blake but I wouldn’t be surprised if he wanted to tell a story on his terms and take less money even if it was not salacious. I still think he could have a compelling story showing their strategy, behind the scenes with family that has nothing to do with Blake, and what some of the behind-the-scenes looked like. Agree it won’t get 100 million but he has enough interest in him that I still think he could get a few more million for this and I think it could be done tastefully. [/quote]

If it's tasteful and restrained it will not sell. He might get a few million to write it, but it's not going to sell without dirt and fireworks. His fan basis is rabidly anti-Blake and I don't think they will buy his book in large numbers without some red meat in that respect. He might have a different feeling/perspective, but his fan base is pretty clear about what they want.

I actually think an "unauthorized" account from some of the CCs could sell better.[/quote]

I’d be surprised if he did a book, he’s a director and producer and has dedicated his career to storytelling through film, so a documentary would probably be the forum he would choose.

Time will tell, but I just don’t see him going the salacious route. And I think he would rather get less money. He actually doesn’t really need the money. People are kind of missing that. He’s literally from a billionaire family and he made at least 35 million from it ends with us. And Steve is still employing him and I imagine he gets a pretty good salary there.

The money will be a nice bonus, but it feels like he would rather tell his story and I think he will try to do it more tastefully even if it means fewer viewers. [/quote]

I mean before IEWU he was actually best known for his TED talk and book, Man Enough. He even dydca version for kids. Man Enough is very personal with a lot of anecdotes from his own life -- he clearly wrote it himself, even if he worked closely with ghost co-author. I definitely think he considered himself, and was considered, an author before this whole fiasco.[/quote]

True. I guess he could do a book. I feel like documentary would be more compelling.

Either way, probably not anything Blake is looking forward to. [/quote]

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