The Vault Hunters are headed to the big screen and are bringing an arsenal with a star-studded cast.
A “Borderlands” movie based off the popular video game franchise will hit theaters this summer. The film is leveled by it’s cast including Oscar-winners Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Blanchett will play Lilith, an infamous bounty hunter from a group of women with remarkable powers called the “Siren” class. Photos shared by Lionsgate show stars rounding out the blockbuster’s cast include Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Ariana Greenblatt, Gina Gershon and Florian Munteanu. The studio also released a photo of the cast in their costumes gathered around a manhole looking down.
I’m not thinking this is going to be good. I love Cate Blanchett, love Jack Black, and Kevin Hart… but the actors were definitely not the right choice for the roles. Kevin Hart is tiny when Roland is a massive dude, Cate Blanchett is just too old for being Lilith, and Jack Black will just be Jack Black and not Claptrap. And where’s Mordecai and Brick?
We’ll see, but video game movies are always a crapshoot because the producers rarely understand the source material.
Jack Black rarely really plays himself in voice acted roles. He really embodies Bowser in the Mario Movie, and even Kung Fu Panda he isn’t really himself, so I’m not really worried for Claptrap.
As for the other examples, I don’t think actors have to be young or yolked to play a character. Not that I see Hart as Roland, just that I don’t think his size matters for this at all.
But yeah the movie could really go either way, there’s a lot of potential but Borderlands could very easily be a franchised series so I do wonder about the casting from a different perspective.