Magician Penn Jillette Will Be in Eli Roth's BORDERLANDS
Magician Penn Jillette has revealed that he will appear in director Eli Roth’s feature film adaptation of the hit video game Borderlands.
During an episode of Penn’s Sunday School podcast, he revealed that he is going to be filming a few scenes with Kevin Hart in the movie. Jillette is taking on the role of a preacher who is overseeing a wedding, during that wedding a fight breaks out and after it comes to an end, Penn finds himself in a “space paddywagon” with Hart’s character Roland. Jillette explained that this is “very, very, very small part.”
The magician duo Penn and Teller previously appeared in Borderlands 3 as characters named Pain and Terror, a villainous duo inspired by, well… them.
The story follows 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. The cast for the film also includes Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Black, Edgar Ramirez, and Florian Munteanu.
Here’s the synopsis for the film:
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.