Lionsgate recently released the plot synopsis for the upcoming Borderlands movie adaptation and it’s not following any of the known plots from the game franchise, but it’s not wandering far off either.
The Borderlands movie so far features an unexpectedly excellent (and odd) cast, including Cate Blanchett as Lilith, Kevin Hart as Roland, Jamie Lee Curtis as Tannis, Jack Black as Claptrap, Ariana Greenblatt as Tiny Tina, Florian Munteanu as Krieg, and recently-added Edgar Ramirez (The Last Days of American Crime) as Atlas, assumedly the founder of the Atlas Corporation.
The official synopsis:
Lilith (Blanchett), an infamous outlaw with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora to find the missing daughter of the universe’s most powerful S.O.B., Atlas (Ramirez). Lilith forms an alliance with an unexpected team – Roland (Hart), a former elite mercenary, now desperate for redemption; Tiny Tina (Greenblatt), a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg (Munteanu), Tina’s musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector; Tannis (Curtis), the scientist with a tenuous grip on sanity; 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.
In the first Borderlands game, players primarily interact with the Atlas Corporation via battles with the megacorporation’s private military force the Crimson Lance. Atlas is after alien technology hidden in a Vault on Pandora, the same Vault the Vault Hunters (including Lilith) are hunting for.
Reading that synopsis, it seems the Borderlands film is veering away from the game plot by adding in a missing child, changing Lilith and Roland’s backstories, potentially removing the concept of vault hunting as a pre-existing career path altogether, and introducing Tiny Tina and Krieg earlier than expected (they only pitch up in Borderlands 2 when Hyperion is the “big bad”) so assume their backstories/motivations have been altered too.
I mean, it could be worse, I guess…
Via IGN.