Jamie Lee Curtis joins Eli Roth's Borderlands movie, which continues to be baffling
Alright, Eli Roth’s Borderlands movie, what are we supposed to do with you? The basic concept seemed a little suspect, since video game movies are almost always bad and Borderlands is most certainly a “gameplay first, story second or third” kind of thing that doesn’t seem like it would automatically lend itself to a movie, and then Roth went ahead and cast Cate Blanchett—of all people—as one of the four characters you could play as in the first game (she’s a magic lady named Lilith). Then Kevin Hart joined the cast, which made a certain amount of sense because he fully embodies the madcap energy of the original games, but it turned out that he’s going to be playing against type as a straight-laced soldier guy named Roland. Now, another famous person had joined the cast, forcing us to consider the very real possibility that the combination of name recognition for the game and name recognition for the stars are going to turn this thing into a hit.