Patricia Tannis, with Jack Black, who also collaborated with Roth on The House with a Clock in Its Walls, cast to provide the voice of Claptrap. In February, Jamie Lee Curtis was cast to play Dr. Kevin Hart was confirmed to play Roland in January 2021. Cate Blanchett, who collaborated with Roth on The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018), entered negotiations to play the role of Lilith in May 2020, with Lionsgate confirming she would star later in the month. In February 2020, Eli Roth was attached to direct the film from a screenplay written by Craig Mazin, with Erik Feig joining as producer through his production company Picturestart. Patricia TannisĪdditionally, Penn Jillette has a cameo in the film as a preacher overseeing a wedding, after voicing Pain in Borderlands 3.Ī film adaptation of the video game series was first announced in August 2015 with Lionsgate Films developing the project with Ari and Avi Arad of Arad Productions producing. The fate of the universe could be in their hands but they'll be fighting for something more: each other. These unlikely heroes must battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to find and protect the missing girl, who may hold the key to unimaginable power. Lilith forms an alliance with an unexpected team - Roland, a former elite mercenary, now desperate for redemption Tiny Tina, a feral pre-teen demolitionist Krieg, Tina's musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector Tannis, the scientist with a tenuous grip on sanity and Claptrap, a persistently wiseass robot. Lilith, an infamous outlaw with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora to find the missing daughter of the universe's most powerful S.O.B., Atlas.

īorderlands is set to be released in the United States by Lionsgate Films. The film is produced by Ari and Avi Arad, and Erik Feig, under their Arad Productions and Picturestart company banners, respectively. It stars an ensemble cast featuring Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Bobby Lee and Jamie Lee Curtis. Borderlands is an upcoming American science fiction action comedy film directed by Eli Roth, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Craig Mazin, based on the video game series of the same name developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K.

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