Many gaming aficionados have been looking forward to this month in anticipation of HBO's TV adaptation of the popular game, The Last of Us. Within all that noise, gamers might have missed some critical information about another huge big-budget game adaptation that's in development.
Back In 2015, it was announced that Borderlands, the popular action role-playing first-person looter shooter video game franchise, was getting a live-action film adaptation, and on June 22, 2021, filming was officially wrapped up. However, Deadline reveals the film is undergoing reshoots and Tim Miller has taken over the project from the original director, Eli Roth.
Roth departed from the project due to his involvement in Thanksgiving, a slasher film that was initially created by him as a parody trailer for Grindhouse but has since been promoted to a feature-length film. Although he remains involved with the Borderlands film, Roth turned over the production to Miller in what was described as an "amicable handing of the baton."
Created and produced by Gearbox, the live-action film will follow the story of Lilith, who's an infamous outlaw with a mysterious past who reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora to find the missing daughter of the universe's most powerful S.O.B., Atlas. There, she forms an alliance with an unexpected team and battles alien monsters and dangerous bandits to find and protect the missing girl, who may hold the key to unimaginable power.