Eli Roth's Borderlands movie looks like it is not getting out of post-production hell anytime soon. One writer doesn't seem to want his name associated with the movie and had his name removed from the credits.
Craig Mazin, best known for his work as co-writer and co-creator for HBO's The Last of Us, has reportedly had his name removed from the writing credits in the upcoming Borderlands movie. Instead, Mazin uses the pseudonym "Joe Crombie" in the screenplay credits forthe live-action adaptation of the Gearbox Software and 2K video game.
According to the WGA database, the Borderlands screenplay is credited to Eli Roth and Joe Crombie. However, Mazin wrote the draft for the movie in 2020, after winning an Emmy for HBO's Chernobyl.
It is unclear why Mazin opted to use a pseudonym for the upcoming movie adaptation. Typically, directors and writers use an alias when they do not want to be associated with a project.
Seven other writers are credited for providing "additional literary material (not on-screen)". Aaron Berg and Chris Bremner (Bad Boys for Life) and Sam Levinson (HBO's The Idol) and Zak Olkewicz (Bullet Train) and Tony Rettenmaier (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts) and Juel Taylor (They Cloned Tyrone) and Oren Uziel (Mortal Kombat) have writing credits for the film based on the WGA database.