The Final of Us TV sequence co-creator Craig Mazin has eliminated his title from the long-gestating Borderlands film. As per World of Reel and confirmed by the Author’s Guild of America (WGA) web site, the presently credited writers on the movie are Eli Roth and Joe Crombie — the latter is a pseudonym for Mazin, suggesting that he not desires to be hooked up to the venture. The movie adaptation of the favored Gearbox looter-shooter seems to be in improvement hell, due to a check screening in November that led to Lionsgate being unhappy and ordering extra work to be executed on it.
Mazin’s determination to make use of a pseudonym comes at a time when he is probably the most in-demand author in Hollywood, having not too long ago steered HBO’s The Final of Us adaptation to vital acclaim, after his success with the Chernobyl miniseries. Given how messy the post-production is reported to be, with Deadpool director Tim Miller changing Eli Roth in January for added reshoots, it solely is sensible for Mazin to not tarnish his popularity with it. At one level, Sam Levinson, creator of Euphoria and the poorly obtained The Idol, was additionally employed to proper, apparently. Filming on Borderlands started in 2021, boasting a star-studded solid, which included Cate Blanchett because the magic-wielding Siren Lilith, Kevin Hart because the highly-trained soldier Roland, Jamie Lee Curtis because the erratic researcher Dr. Patricia Tannis, and Jack Black because the comedian Hyperion-manufactured robotic Claptrap.
First-look pictures of the solid’s silhouette had been dropped in mid-2021, following which there was no new details about the movie. With Miller taking over directing duties, alongside got here Zak Olkewicz (Bullet Prepare) to jot down some new pages for the Borderlands film. In complete seven writers had been introduced on board to fiddle with the script, together with the aforementioned Levinson and Olkewicz, Aaron Berg, Oren Uziel (Mortal Kombat), Juel Taylor (They Cloned Tyrone), Tony Rettenmaier (Area Jam: A New Legacy), and Chris Bremner (Unhealthy Boys for Life). The official web site for the Borderlands film hasn’t been up to date but, nonetheless mentioning Mazin’s title as is, alongside Roth because the director.
As per the official synopsis from Lionsgate, Borderlands largely follows Lilith (Blanchett), an notorious outlaw returning to her house planet of Pandora to hunt the lacking daughter of the universe’s strongest S.O.B. Atlas (Édgar Ramírez). To finish the duty, she pulls collectively a ragtag group of misfits — former elite mercenary Roland, a feral demonologist Tiny Tina, and the blabbermouth robotic Claptrap — and battle swarms of aliens, bandits, and psychos, earlier than the mission finally turns right into a world-saving one.
In different information, Mazin’s accomplice on The Final of Us sequence Neil Druckmann is now left alone to guide Naughty Canine — builders of the Uncharted and TLOU video games — as President, by the tip of the yr. Co-president Evan Wells has chosen to retire after a 25-year-long stint on the firm. “That is one thing that I have been discussing with Naughty Canine’s Studio Management Crew for properly over a yr, and with Neil for even longer than that. The choice brings with it overwhelming and conflicting feelings, however I’ve come to comprehend that I am content material with my time on the studio and all that we have achieved collectively over the past 25 years,” Wells stated in a weblog publish.
“I could not be extra assured in Neil’s capability to hold on operating the studio. It is the proper time for me to supply the chance for him and the others on the Studio Management Crew to steer the studio right into a profitable future.”
The Borderlands film presently doesn’t have a launch date.
