Reshoots are common for Hollywood films, as are scheduling conflicts. That’s why the upcoming Borderlands movie will see a new director oversee additional filming.
Deadline reports filmmaker Eli Roth will hand over the reins of the Borderlands reshoots to director Tim Miller, best known for helming Deadpool and Terminator: Dark Fate. Miller will do a couple of weeks’ worth of filming on Borderlands, the long-awaited adaptation of the iconic video game franchise.
The rumors began to swirl that Roth was stepping away from the project and Miller was taking over, but the filmmakers took to Deadline to clear up the story. Roth is busy prepping another film, his feature film version of the mock trailer Thanksgiving. As Miller and Roth are longtime friends, Roth felt that the Deadpool filmmaker was the best fit for this situation. Let’s hope this doesn’t become a Joss Whedon/Zack Snyder situation.
Eli Roth will begin shooting Thanksgiving in March with a script by Jeff Rendell. Roth first teased Thanksgiving during Quentin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse film, serving as a fake trailer featured in the movie. You can check out that trailer here…
Reports say production for Borderlands wrapped in June of last year, and it’s sat in post-production since then. The words of reshoots now explain why it’s been long-delayed, as they’ve probably had to find a way around everyone’s busy schedules. The film includes an all-star cast that features Cate Blanchett, Edgar Ramirez, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Jamie Lee Curtis. Getting all of these talents together to film and a very busy director/producer isn’t easy.
At the time of reporting, Borderlands still has yet to set a release date.
“Lilith (Cate Blanchett), 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 (Edgar Ramirez). Lilith forms an alliance with an unexpected team – Roland (Kevin Hart), a former elite mercenary, now desperate for redemption; Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt), a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg (Florian Munteanu), Tina’s musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector; Tannis (Jamie Lee Curtis), the scientist with a tenuous grip on sanity; and Claptrap (Jack 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.”
Featuring in the cast of the Borderlands movie includes Jamie Lee Curtis as Tannis, Cate Blanchett as Lilith, Kevin Hart as Roland, Jack Black as Claptrap, Ariana Greenblatt as Tiny Tina, Florian Munteanu as Krieg, Haley Bennett as a newly created character who is key to Lilith’s past, Edgar Ramirez as the villainous Atlas, Janina Gavankar as the new character, Commander Knoxx, Gina Gershon as Moxxi, Cheyenne Jackson as Jakobs, Charles Babalola as Hammerlock, Benjamin Byron Davis as Marcus, Steven Boyer as Scooter, Ryann Redmond as Ellie, and Bobby Lee in the new role of Larry.
