Borderlands (2024)

Cate Blanchett as: Lilith

Directed by: Eli Roth
Selected Cast: Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Ariana Greenblatt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Florian Munteanu, Gina Gershon, Edgar Ramirez
Written by: Eli Roth and Joe Crombie
Release Year: 2024
Genre: Action | Comedy | Sci-fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13

 

IMDb | Photos | Videos | Official Site

Lilith forms an unexpected alliance with a ragtag team of misfits – Roland, a seasoned mercenary on a mission; Tiny Tina, a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg, Tina’s musclebound protector; Dr. Tannis, the oddball scientist who’s seen it all; and Claptrap, a wiseass robot. Together, these unlikely heroes must battle an alien species and dangerous bandits to uncover one of Pandora’s most explosive secrets. The fate of the universe could be in their hands – but they’ll be fighting for something more: each other.

Related Images

View more images at the gallery.

Behind the scenes; Featurette
Related Videos

The videos after the trailer are playlists of behind the scenes, featurettes, and selected interviews, just click on the playlist icon/thumbnails to see the other videos in it.

Quotes from Cate Blanchett

  • “Lilith is such a fascinating character with a rich backstory. I was captivated by her complexity and her journey- an infamous outlaw with a mysterious past, which makes her both formidable and vulnerable. The combination of her extraordinary powers as a Siren and her personal struggles made her a character I couldn’t resist exploring.” (Orlando Family Magazine, August 2024)
  • “It’s its own strange, weird thing, and when you look at the casting, there’s a motley quality to it. We’re a very motley crew, in life and in art. (Laughs.) I don’t think anyone would call ‘Borderlands’ art, but it’s fun.” (USA Today, August 2024)

Quotes from Others

  • Eli Roth:
    — On the cast: “I had an amazing experience working with Cate and Jack on ‘The House with a Clock in Its Walls’, the kid’s movie I did with Amblin, and Cate was the first one I called. I said, “I’m making this insane kind of spaghetti western space opera, fun sci-fi video game adaptation, and I need someone to be a total badass, like Clint Eastwood in ‘The Man with No Name’ or Snake Plissken in ‘Escape from New York’,” and she’s like, “I’m in. Let’s do it.” So, Cate learned to twirl guns. She wanted to shoot, she wanted to do her own stunts. We put her in a harness, she was 100 feet in the air on wires. Then I said, “All right, what if you grab a flamethrower and you light these guys on fire?” So, Cate, she learned to do it. She’s really shooting a flamethrower in that scene. So, it was incredible. Once you have Cate, she’s actor bait. Everybody wants to act with Cate. So, I called Jack right away, said, “She’s going to be a pissed off bounty hunter, and you’re the annoying robot,” and he’s a big ‘Borderlands’ player, so he knew Claptrap, he was all in. Then Jamie Lee said she wanted to play Tannis, which was my first choice and she said yes. he’s like, “You had me at Cate Blanchett.” So, it’s great to be able to unite those screen icons in a movie, and the two of them became close friends. Everyone bonded on this movie. We were shooting in the pandemic, so there was a curfew in Budapest. We weren’t allowed out after 8:00pm, and the world of ‘Borderlands’ became our reality. So, everybody got close. We made lifelong friends on that movie, and you can feel that bond with the characters on screen.”
  • Jamie Lee Curtis:
    — “I went to Budapest to be in a movie with Cate Blanchett.”

Trivia & Facts

  • Filmed in Hungary.
  • The film is based on the video game of the same title.
  • Cate Blanchett, Jack Black, and Eli Roth previously worked together on The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018).
  • The film was shot from April to June 2021, with a two-week reshoots under the direction of Tim Miller in January 2023.
  • Craig Mazin was attached to write the screenplay, he envisioned a film much closer to the video game.
  • The film premiered on 6 August 2024 in Los Angeles.
  • Cate Blanchett said in interviews that she bought a PS5 and played the video game to prepare for the role.
  • During breaks from filming, Cate Blanchett was taking up piano lessons from Emese Virág, a professor at Franz Liszt Academy of Music to prepare for her role in TÁR (2022).

Los Angeles premiere, 6 August 2024