The story ofBorderlandsthe movie is really a case study in madness.
“It was nothing I thought would ever cross my path, something as bonkers as this.”
“We only had each other, so work was an absolute, joyous escape.”
Meet the Pyschos, crazed masked brutes that roam Pandora in ‘Borderlands’.Katalin Vermes/Lionsgate
That loopy energy of breaking COVID isolation spilled directly into the movie, which was just what Roth encouraged.
“I’ve never gone so wild in a scene before.
It wasn’t even scripted.
Meet the Pyschos, crazed masked brutes that roam Pandora in ‘Borderlands’.Katalin Vermes/Lionsgate
We were like, ‘Let’s just do this.'”
“I think there’s a spirit of anarchy and absurdity in the game.
I wanted the movie to have that same spirit as well: a movie completely made by lunatics.”
Lilith (Cate Blanchett) dodges bullets on Pandora in ‘Borderlands’.Katalin Vermes/Lionsgate
Psycho paths
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The road to makingBorderlandsfeels just as crazy.
“Road Warriorcomes to mind.”
“I’m a video-game maker,” Pitchford says.
Dr. Patricia Tannis (Jamie Lee Curtis) uncovers a clue to an ancient alien vault in ‘Borderlands’.Lionsgate
“I liked the thesis that they came with.”
“A lot of it was us finding where this movie would live.
It took us a while, but we found it.”
Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt) may be tiny, but she has an explosive personality.Murray Close/Lionsgate
“He put Ari through the ringer,” Roth says of Pitchford.
“It was the fan base that I found so fascinating,” she says.
It was a big cut-and-paste for me in trying to put her together on screen."
Bobby Lee as Larry and Kevin Hart as Roland in ‘Borderlands’.Katalin Vermes/Lionsgate
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Curtis didnt even have to read the script to know she wanted to sign on to the film.
It didnt matter to me, she says.
I went to Budapest to be in a movie with Cate Blanchett.
Road trip! Ex-soldier Roland (Kevin Hart) drives the crew through a den of Threshers, monsters that shoot pee all over the place.Katalin Vermes/Lionsgate
TheHalloweenicon plays Dr. Patricia Tannis, a scientist and an old friend of Liliths mother.
It helped me so much.
“This is the first time I was responsible for action and only action,” he says.
“Roland is a handler.
He gets it done.
He knows where to go, and there’s a reason why you get behind him.
He’s a leader.
He’s a soldier.
And he’s a good one.”
“The games have a certain tone.
You might say the cast was an embarrassment of riches.
Happy Vault Hunting!
“We all loved it.
The scene itself turned out great.
“We’re not retelling a story that we’ve told in the video games,” Pitchford explains.
It feels likeBorderlands, but you don’t know what we’re going to do.”
Hey, crazier things have happened withBorderlands.
Footage by Lionsgate; VFX by Studio Khimaira
