Nine years after its announcement, we’ve finally got a first look at the Borderlands movie – featuring Cate Blanchett as a game-accurate Lilith

Feb. 20, 2024

It’s been a long time coming, but here’s the first full look at the Borderlands movie

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Nine years after it was first announced, we’ve finally got the first full look at the upcoming Borderlands movie.

Thanks toPeople, we’ve now got a glimpse of the majority of Pandora’s major players. The most prominent of which is Cate Blanchett as a game-accurate Lilith. In another image, we can see the assembled cast, including soldier Roland (Kevin Hart) Dr. Tannis (Jamie Lee Curtis), loudmouthed Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt) and robotic wisecracker Claptrap (Jack Black) peering down a manhole.

For the uninitiated, Borderlands is an adaptation ofGearbox’s madcap looter-shooter, which is set on the fictional planet of Pandora and features several Vault-Hunters and mega-corporations vying for treasure in a lawless, cartoonish society.

Directed and co-written by Eli Roth, Borderlands sees Lilith, an “infamous outlaw with a mysterious past” return to Pandora to find the missing daughter of Atlas, AKA “the universe’s most powerful SOB”.

Since then, there’s been largely radio silence on the project. However, Jamie Lee Curtis, who plays Dr. Tannis, once described Borderlands as “badonkadonk bonkers” inan interview with Total Film.

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