Eli Roth‘s star-studded movie adaptation of the video game series
Borderlands is currently filming, and the first official images and art from the flick arrived today. We have a look at the candy-colored movie logo
and a behind-the-scenes image of
Cate Blanchett as
Borderlands character Lilith. To be fair, the image is just Blanchett’s silhouette, but it looks cool anyway.
Behold! Cate Blanchett, sort of! The official
Borderlands Twitter account dropped this image today, with the caption “‘With me around, you might actually get somewhere.’ – Lilith.” For comparison’s sake, here’s how Lilith looks in the games.
Image: Gearbox Software/2K Games
Actor and fighting game enthusiast Jamie Lee Curtis gave Borderlands fans their first look at the upcoming movie based on Gearbox’s looter-shooter series on Tuesday. Curtis, who plays Tannis in the film, snapped and posted a pic of Cate Blanchett on the set of
Borderlands. And even though we only see Blanchett in silhouette, it’s evident that her portrayal of the siren Lilith hews closely to her in-game look.
Curtis posted the behind-the-scenes shot to her Instagram, calling Lilith “our legendary heroine, psycho blasting, vault hunting vixen with a bad attitude.” Curtis also teased imminent sneak peeks at the rest of the cast, including Kevin Hart as Roland, Jack Black as Claptrap, Ariana Greenblatt as Tiny Tina, and Florian Munteanu as Krieg.
Borderlands Movie: Penn Jillette Joins Cast, Accidentally Reveals Spoiler
Production is already underway on the
Slash Film). Speaking about his role, Jillette said: I will be with Cate Blanchett, Jack Black, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Kevin Hart, and most of my scenes are with Kevin Hart. I have a very, very, very small part, I m in like four scenes and I have like four lines.
He added, I m a justice of the peace, I m a preacher trying to perform a wedding ceremony and there s a fight scene. So I am in the entire fight scene just standing there. Then I come in and I do the button on the scene. Then I m in a space paddywagon with Kevin Hart. Jillette went on to call his role more of a cameo than anything. Fans of the Borderlands series may recall that Jillette previously lent his voice to the video game series, voicing the character Pain of Pain and Terror, a parody of his magic pair, Penn & Teller, in Borderlands 3.
Lionsgate’s upcoming big screen adaptation of the video game franchise
Kevin Hart, Jack Black,
Cate Blanchett, and more. But there’s one more addition that we’ve just learned about, and it’s someone who has a history with the
Borderlands games.
Magician and comedian
Penn Jillette, best known as one half of the duo known as Penn & Teller, recently revealed that he’s flying over to Budapest to take a role in the Borderlands movie. Find out what he revealed about his place in the
Borderlands movie cast below.
During an episode of
Penn’s Sunday School podcast, Penn Jillette revealed that he will be shooting a few scenes for the Borderlands movie. In the movie, Jillette will be playing a preacher overseeing a wedding, and there’s a fight scene that interrupts the nuptials. After the action is done, he ends up in a “space paddywagon” with Kevin Hart’s character Roland. Jillette said it’s a “very, very, very small part,” and most of the scenes will