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The Borderlands movie adaptation has revealed its star-studded cast of vault hunters.
Lionsgate’s live-action movie adaptation of the Borderlands game franchise is coming out in August this year, and it looks like marketing for the film is finally starting to ramp up. The movie studio has released first-look images featuring the movie’s star-studded cast, with Cate Blanchett as Lilith, Kevin Hart as Roland, Jack Black as Claptrap and more.
Borderlands’ first trailer will drop tomorrow, but Lionsgate has released a teaser for the trailer to tide us over until then. Yes, this is a teaser for a teaser - will wonders never cease?
The Borderlands movie adaptation unveils its cast
Lionsgate has confirmed that the long-gestating Borderlands movie adaptation will hit theatres on August 9, 2024, after filming wrapped all the way back in 2021. In 2023, the movie underwent two weeks of reshoots with Tim Miller (Deadpool) stepping in for Eli Roth (Thanksgiving) to take on directing duties. Its core cast remains unchanged, however.
Cate Blanchett leads the cast as Lilith, an outlaw who returns to her home planet Pandora while looking for the missing daughter of Atlas (Edgar Ramirez). While she’s on Pandora, she’ll team up with a band of misfits that includes ex-soldier Roland (Kevin Hart), pre-teen demolitionist Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt), Tina’s bodyguard Krieg (Florian Munteanu), scientist Tannis (Jamie Lee Curtis) and robot Claptrap (Jack Black). The entire cast can be seen in this new movie poster:
Here’s a better look at Cate Blanchett’s Lilith:
The teaser-for-a-teaser above also gave us a brief look at what these outcasts are going to get up to in Pandora, though it mainly consists of a lot of shooting and explosions. While the tone of the movie largely seems in line with the looter-shooter games it’s based on however, its cast certainly isn’t. Cate Blanchett’s Lilith looks a good few decades older than her videogame counterpart, and Tannis doubly so, while the straightlaced Roland doesn’t exactly match Kevin Hart’s comic persona. Jack Black likely won’t disappoint as Claptrap, at least. The actor has been dominating movie adaptations lately, from Super Mario Bros. to Minecraft.