Eli Roth’s “Borderlands,” a video game adaptation, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Craig Mazin, has been in post-production for god knows how long.
Reshoots for “Borderlands” happened in early Summer 2022 with Gary Ross hired for rewrites. The movie was test-screened in November and that led to Lionsgate calling for more work to be done on the film.
This past January, there was a report of Roth having been replaced by Tim Miller (“Deadpool”) for additional reshoots on the film with Zak Olkewicz scribing new pages for Miller.
Now we’re getting word that original screenwriter Mazin has officially removed his name from the project, he’ll go under the pseudonym Joe Crombie. Mazin clearly doesn’t want his name attached to this movie.
Other writers who were hired to work on the film Include Aaron Berg, Oren Uziel, Juel Taylor, Tony Rettenmaier, Zak Olkewicz, Chris Bremner and … Sam Levinson!
Cate Blanchett stars in “Borderlands”. Filming had wrapped on the film in June of 2021 and then she went straight into production for “TÁR” in the fall. The rest of the cast includes Jack Black, Kevin Hart and Jamie Lee Curtis.
On-paper, it wasn’t supposed to be the disaster that it’s become. I’m not entirely sure if this is a case of studio interference or a filmmaker being in over his head with the source material, but there are some major red flags stamped all over this movie.
No release date has been set for “Borderlands.”
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