Jamie Lee Curtis Joins Eli Roth's BORDERLANDS Film Adaptation
Jamie Lee Curtis is the latest A-list star to join director Eli Roth’s film adaptation of the bestselling video game Borderlands. She will be joined by the previously cast Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart.
The story for the film is set in the distant future when “four ‘Vault Hunters’ travel to the distant planet Pandora to hunt down an alien vault rumored to contain advanced alien technology.”
Blanchett will take on the role of Lilith in the film, and Hart is set to play the ex-soldier turned mercenary, Roland. Curtis will be playing a character named Dr. Patricia Tannis, “an archeologist on Pandora who might have the key to finding the vault, but whose complicated history with Lilith (Blanchett) isn’t going to help.”
Roth has put together quite an impressive cast so far for this movie, and it’ll be interesting to see who else he ends up casting in his project.
Avi and Ari Arad are producing through Arad Prods, and the film is being written by Chernobyl writer Craig Mazin. Here’s the synopsis from the game:
In a distant future, the planets at the outer edges of the galaxy have become a beacon to fortune seekers and those yearning for a better life off world. But there are no guarantees in deep space. Pandora, one of these distant planets, was reported to be rich in untapped mineral wealth, and so drew many hoping to get rich quick, but in the end little was found beyond the scattered ruins of a past alien civilization.
With nothing to gain, any who could soon abandoned Pandora, leaving those who remained to deal with the lawlessness of a world gone bust, and the mystery of the long-dead alien civilization. But as chaotic as these times were, there were worse days yet to come. After several years the planet’s huge orbit slowly brought it near to its sun and once unknown and horrifying creatures sprang from their long hibernation to terrify the stranded colonists.
The only hope of the colonists seems to be a vault discovered in the side of a mountainside, rumored to contain alien technology and secrets about Pandora.
What do you think about the cast that has been put together for this Borderlands film so far?
Source: Deadline