An adaptation of the popular video game, Eli Roth’s Borderlands is finally set for big screen release this summer, and EW shares several first look images in a preview piece today.
Lionsgate will be releasing Borderlands on August 9, 2024.
The new images below give a closer look at the colorful characters in this video game adaptation, including the crazed Psychos.
“We’re not retelling a story that we’ve told in the video games,” Randy Pitchford, the CEO of Borderlands creators GearBox, told EW. “We’ve created a cinematic universe that lives in parallel to the video game universe and can live in an independent timeline. It feels like Borderlands, but you don’t know what we’re going to do.”
Head over to EW to see more and learn more.
Here’s the official plot synopsis for Lionsgate’s Borderlands: “In the movie 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.”
The ensemble cast for the video game movie includes Jack Black as Claptrap, Florian Munteanu as Krieg, Ariana Greenblatt as Tiny Tina, Jamie Lee Curtis as Tannis, Cate Blanchett as Lilith, Kevin Hart as Roland, and Gina Gershon as Moxxi.
Edgar Ramirez, Janina Gavankar, Cheyenne Jackson, Charles Babalola, Benjamin Byron Davis, Steven Boyer, Ryann Redmond, and Haley Bennett also star.
Eli Roth and Joe Crombie wrote the screenplay.
