Borderlands movie

[Spyglass]

Cate Blanchette has been announced to play Lilith.

Nope. Nah-ah. Way too old.
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[Tha1ChiefRocka]

There's no way it's not going to be a disaster anyway. You can't make a coherent movie out of most video games, and I don't know how you'd do it with Borderlands either. Are they going to do an original script, or are they going to do the plot of Borderlands 2? And, to make things worse, the last game in the series had the worst writing to date, and if the people who are supposed to make the game can't even get the tone right, then how should anyone else be able to do it?

I love the series, and I've played all the games BTW, so that's why I have such a strong feeling about this.

And yeah, Blanchett is a little old. Surprised that Eli Roth could get someone like her to sign on to the project.

[mickilennial]

I mean all you need is the same writing team that did Fury Road with a few comedy writers to get it decent. Borderlands isn't hard.

[Spyglass]

[mickilennial]

Age aside, you probably are lucky to get an actress that good for a project like this so you take what you get.

[Tha1ChiefRocka]

I can see it being a Suicide Squad type of movie where the humor thinks it's edgy, they spend too much time trying to build up backstory, and they end up fighting some ancient evil that's not readily explained. The Eridian lore in the games is pretty deep as well as the corporations that are involved. Lots of side characters; I can see it becoming overstuffed and incoherent very easily, but if I'm proven wrong, then that's fine with me.

This might seem like an odd comparison, but I would kinda like to see it be like a Starship Troopers movie, where you just get thrown into a universe and they shoot a lot of aliens without much explanation. And some of the satirical edge of a movie like that is kind of the same humor as the Borderlands universe too.

[Spyglass]

A Paul Verhoeven Borderlands movie would be fantastic.
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[Tha1ChiefRocka]

Do you think we could somehow get Timothy Olyphant to play Handsome Jack? He probably will never do another video game movie after Hitman.

[RockyRaccoon]

I feel like the only way to do a Borderlands movie that isn't abject garbage is to do it within the Borderlands universe, using sort of the same creatures/generic characters/dark comedy feel, but not try to replicate the plot of any of the games.
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