Mike Gottlieb, Blake Lively's lawyer "We will imminently file motions ... As a legal matter, the Freedman Letter is improper," Lively's legal team wrote. Baldoni’s team wrote May 14 that it believes subpoenaing Swift is necessary for this case.

Scarlett Johansson has not met Justin Baldoni, the co-founder of the production company Wayfarer Studios that's producing her upcoming film "Eleanor the Great" but admits that the timing of she and Baldoni's creative partnership is strange.

The extortion claim comes after Baldoni’s team claimed Swift and Lively’s husband Ryan Reynolds peer pressured him to accept Lively’s revisions on a rooftop scene int he movie. They also point to a text calling Swift and Reynolds Lively’s “dragons,