‘Borderlands’ First Look Reveals Cate Blanchett As Badass Science Fiction Action Hero Lilith
Eli Roth’s star-studded movie adaptation of the video game seriesBorderlandsis currently filming, and the first official images and art from the flick arrived today. We have a look at the candy-colored movie logoanda behind-the-scenes image ofCate BlanchettasBorderlandscharacter Lilith. To be fair, the image is just Blanchett’s silhouette, but it looks cool anyway.
Behold! Cate Blanchett, sort of! The officialBorderlandsTwitteraccount 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.
At the very least, we can say they certainly seemed to have nailed the “Lilith has big, pointy hair!” angle. As the officialBorderlands Wikitells us, Lilith isBorderlands' “Siren class. She is originally from the planet Dionysus and is one of six Sirens, a group of women with unbelievable powers.” I confess here that I’ve never played a singleBorderlandsgame, but I do like the idea of Cate Blanchett running around a movie acting like a super-powered badass. Sign me up for that.
Blanchett leads a cast that also includesJack Blackas Claptrap,Kevin Hartas Roland,Jamie Lee Curtisas Dr. Patricia Tannis,Ariana Greenblattas Tiny Tina, andGina Gershonas Moxxi. The rest of the cast includesEdgar Ramirez, Florian Munteanu, Janina Gavankar,Cheyenne Jackson, Charles Babalola, Benjamin Byron Davis, Steven Boyer, Ryann Redmond, andHaley Bennett.
In theBorderlandsmovie, Blanchett’s Lilith, “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.”
Director Eli Roth wrote the script for the film withCraig Mazin, creator of the very disturbing HBO seriesChernobyl. Mazin is also working on another video game adaptation – the HBO series based onThe Last of Us.
Borderlandsis due out sometime in2022. You can check out the official movie logo below.
