Eli Roth's BORDERLANDS Movie Will Not Exist in The Same Universe as the Games
Eli Roth put one hell of an all-star cast together for his feature film adaptation of Borderlands. The movie stars Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Black, Edgar Ramirez, and Florian Munteanu.
The movie is currently in production and the story will follow Lilith, an infamous outlaw with a mysterious past. She reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora and forms an unexpected alliance to find the missing daughter of Atlas.
We now have some new info to share with you thanks to Randy Pitchford, executive producer of the Borderlands video game franchise and founder of Gearbox Entertainment Company, he revealed that the story for the film is not set in the same universe as the games.
“The Borderlands Cinematic Universe is not identical to the Borderlands Videogame Universe. We are authentic to characters, tone and style, but allow for independent storylines. The mediums are not the same, so the content should not be bound to the same rules.”
That seems to make sense. I’m cool with that, but it’ll be interesting to see what other fans of the franchise think. You can check out a couple of tweets that were shared by Pitchford below:
Lionsgate released the film’s official synopsis, which focuses on a group of unlikely heroes recruited for a retrieval mission:
Lilith (Blanchett), 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 (Ramirez). Lilith forms an alliance with an unexpected team – Roland (Hart), a former elite mercenary, now desperate for redemption; Tiny Tina (Greenblatt), a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg (Munteanu), Tina’s musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector; Tannis (Curtis), the scientist with a tenuous grip on sanity; and Claptrap (Black), a persistently wiseass robot. 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. The fate of the universe could be in their hands – but they’ll be fighting for something more: each other.
Avi and Ari Arad are producing through Arad Prods, and the film is being written by Chernobyl writer Craig Mazin.