Borders was successful when Gearbox Software debuted it on various gaming platforms in 2009. The video game is an open-world first action role-playing game and features a multitude of crazy and ferociously violent characters. The game follows a core group of four Vault Hunters who are traveling to the planet Pandora (not to be confused with avatar‘s Pandora) to search for the Vault. This hideout supposedly contains riches, glory, and sophisticated alien technology that many factions want to obtain first. A film based on this game has been in the works since 2015 and will now finally hit theaters.
Slowly, we are starting to see more details emerge from the Borders film. Recently, Ariana Greenblatt I said a little more about her creation Borders character, Tiny Tina. Greenblatt noted that she “was heavily inspired by Margot [Robbie]It’s the Harley Quinn version. He also shared: “I read the sides and immediately thought of (Robbie’s Harley) and that was one of the first things I said to her about the process of getting it. Barbie… I watched how she prepared and read the comics and she worked really hard to build Harley and watching her helped me build Tina.
Greenblatt also turned to a friend to create Tiny Tina, sharing, “She just had a very carefree mentality and didn’t care about embarrassing herself and would say and do weird voices and things and movements. And she’s my best friend, and I watched her move and I told her in the middle of filming, I was like, ‘I just want you to know, I’m acting exactly like you in this movie.’ And she said, ‘Great, amazing.'” Additionally, a group of YouTubers called 4 horror showhelped her find “Tiny Tina’s gestures and laughs.”
The actress also remembers that she chose not to try to recreate the voice of Tiny Tina from Borders games, offering: “Tina’s original voice is so loved and so hard to do. And I thought about it a lot because I thought, ‘I could completely change my voice and do a cartoon character,’ but then I thought about people who maybe haven’t heard of Borderlands before and don’t like video games and just want to keep an eye on the cast or the director or whatever the reason. You don’t want to sit for an hour watching a movie listening to a crazy, insane voice and a wild, horrible boy.
Here’s everything we know about the Borders film so far.
Title
This video game film adaptation will be called Borders.
Border’The plot
Lionsgate shared an official plot synopsis on April 5, 2021:
Two-time Oscar® winner Cate Blanchett joins Kevin Hart in director Eli Roth’s Borderlands. Lilith (Blanchett), an infamous outlaw with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora to find the missing daughter of the most powerful son of a bitch in the universe, Atlas (Ramirez). Lilith forms an alliance with an unexpected team – Roland (Hart), a former elite mercenary now desperate for redemption; Tiny Tina (Greenblatt), a ferocious pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg (Munteanu), Tina’s muscular and rhetorically challenged protector; Tannis (Curtis), the scientist with a tenuous grip on sanity; and Claptrap (Black), a persistently smart robot.
These unlikely heroes must fight 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 may be in their hands – but they will fight for something more: each other. Based on the Gearbox and 2K game, one of the best-selling video game franchises of all time, welcome to Borderlands.
With some exciting news, we finally got a good look at the live action Borders film. Lionsgate released two first images of Borders, which reveal a close-up of Cate Blanchett’s Lilith and a photo of the entire team. The team, of course, includes Kevin Hart’s Roland, a former soldier, Ariana Greenblatt’s Tiny Tina, a teenage explosives expert, Florian Munteanu’s Krieg, Tiny Tina’s bodyguard, Jamie Lee Curtis’s Tannis, a strange scientist /doctor, and Jack Black’s Claptrap. , which is a robot.
Behind the scenes
Eli Roth, best known for his horror films, will direct. Craig Mazin (Chernobyl) is writing. Mazin is also working on HBO shows The last of us TV series. Producers for the Borders The film includes Avi and Ari Arad and Erik Feig, with executive producers Randy Pitchford (who served as executive producer on the game) and Strauss Zelnick. Dead PoolTim Miller handled the reshoots.
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And now we come to the most exciting news about the Borders movie: star power. Cate Blanchett got the role of Lilith, the film’s protagonist. Kevin Hart will play Roland, a soldier. Lilith and Roland are two of the game’s Vault Hunters. Edgar Ramirez will play Atlas, the most powerful man in the video game universe. (Naturally, this means he’s a businessman and a weapons manufacturer.)
Jamie Lee Curtis also signed on for the film, playing Tannis, an archaeologist. And we also know that Jack Black will voice Claptrap, the game’s recognizable cheeky robot sidekick. IGN reported on April 6, 2021 that Dutch bodybuilder Olivier Richters will play against Krom. Additionally, Ariana Greenblatt and Florian Munteanu will star as Tiny Tina and Krieg, respectively.
The rest of the cast includes Gina Gershon as Moxxi, Cheyenne Jackson as Jakobs, Charles Babalola as Hammerlock, Benjamin Byron Davis as Marcus, Steven Boyer as Scooter, and Ryann Redmond as Ellie. Additionally, Bobby Lee also joins the cast in the new role of Larry.
We take a look at the film, courtesy of star Jamie Lee Curtis and Lionsgate. It’s just the silhouettes of the characters, but still:
BorderRelease date of
Borders will be released in theaters on August 9, 2024.
Originally published April 2, 2021.
