Borderlands first look features Cate Blanchett’s Lilith

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

A feature-film adaptation of Gearbox Software's best-selling Borderlands video-game franchise was announced six years ago and production on the project finally kicked off this April under the direction of Eli Roth. With an all-star cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Edgar Ramierez, Jack Black, Jamie Lee Curtis, and more, Borderlands is shaping up to be a rather interesting adaptation, and thanks to Jamie Lee Curtis, we've got our first look — albeit a silhouetted one — at Cate Blanchett as Lilith.

Curtis secretly snapped the behind-the-scenes image of Cate Blanchett as Lilith, who she describes as "our legendary heroine, psycho blasting, vault hunting vixen with a bad attitude." I'll admit to never having played any of the Borderlands games, so my knowledge of the franchise is pretty much non-existent, but based on the synopsis, it sounds like some wacky, adventure-filled fun. The official logo for the film has also been released, which you can see at the top of this article. Ha! Made you scroll back up.

The official synopsis for Borderlands:

Lilith (Blanchett), an infamous treasure hunter with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora to find the missing daughter of Atlas (Edgar Ramirez), the universe’s most powerful S.O.B. She forms an unexpected alliance with a ragtag team of misfits – Roland (Hart), once a highly respected soldier, but now desperate for redemption; Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt), a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg (Florian Munteanu), Tina’s musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector; Tannis (Curtis), the scientist who’s seen it all; 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. Based on one of the best selling videogame franchises of all time, welcome to Borderlands.

Borderlands doesn't have an official release date yet, but is expected to hit theaters in 2022.