From Ryan Cordaro

Video game adaptations have been on a surprisingly good run as of late. Just last year alone, The Last of Us and The Super Mario Bros. Movie ended up being huge hits, and if we’d even want to count this, Gran Turismo ended up being a surprise hit too. I also think the future’s looking pretty bright too. The Sonic franchise is gonna continue later this year with a Knuckles spin-off series, along with the third movie in the franchise coming this December. The Fallout series on Prime Video, the sequel to 2021’s Mortal Kombat, and a new Street Fighter movie from the directors of Talk To Me are all on the way too. It’s looking pretty good right now, and who knows, maybe Borderlands could continue the hot streak.

Borderlands is based on the long-running first-person shooter/space Western/fantasy franchise. It’s certainly a hodge-podge, but hey, I think it’s an interesting one. After returning to her home-planet Pandora, Lilith, an infamous outlaw, is given a dangerous mission and forms an alliance with other criminals including former mercenary Roland, demolitionist Tiny Tina and her protector Krieg, insane scientist Tannis, and the wisecracking robot Claptrap. The mission? Find and protect the missing daughter of a very powerful man named Atlas. Things aren't as they seem, though, as the girl holds the key to a great power that can change the fate of the entire universe. The movie famously had a very strange shooting process. Obviously, not a lot of details are out there on what happened, but reshoots for the film ended up happening without director Eli Roth, who set out to shoot and even release Thanksgiving before this would even get its first trailer. Tim Miller, who’s directed Deadpool and Terminator: Dark Fate, ended up taking the reins, but Roth still retains the directing credit.

The ensemble cast includes Cate Blanchett (TÁR, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio), Kevin Hart (Lift, Central Intelligence), Jack Black (The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the upcoming Minecraft), Édgar Ramírez (Jungle Cruise, Dr. Death), Ariana Greenblatt (Barbie, 65), Bobby Lee (Reservation Dogs, Pineapple Express), Florian Munteanu (the Creed franchise, Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings), Haley Bennett (Till, the [probably] upcoming Magazine Dreams), Gina Gershon (Showgirls, Thanksgiving), and Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All At Once, Haunted Mansion).

Borderlands releases in theaters on August 9th, 2024 from Lionsgate.

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