Lionsgate’s upcoming live-action film adaptation of Gearbox Software’s popular video game series Borderlands has wrapped production. Ahead of its release next year, actor Edgar Ramirez tells of the game series why they should be excited about what’s to come.
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Speaking to IGN in an interview, Ramirez — who plays Atlas in the upcoming Borderlands film — spoke about the movie, and noted no matter what type of medium it is, storytelling is at the heart of everything.
“In the end, games, movies, it’s all about storytelling,” Ramirez said. “And the most iconic games, such as Borderlands, is the storytelling and the tone of the games what have made them so special. So now I know the game. I didn’t know it before. And the tone is spectacular.”
Ramirez went on to say that the Borderlands series specifically has such a history of being so “in on the joke” and he thinks the movie did a great job of nailing that. He wants fans to see how it all came together.
“I mean it’s so dark and so witty and so whimsical as well. It’s so in on the joke and kind of like impudent. There’s a ‘I don’t give a damn’ attitude to the game, and that’s what we rescued and put into the movie so I’m very excited for the fans of the game to see it and see how respectful we were to the tone of the game.”
Borderlands follows a mischievous squad of Vault Hunters from the game series and is being directed by Eli Roth from a screenplay written by Craig Mazin. It also stars Haley Bennett, Janina Gavankar, Gina Gershon, Cheyenne Jackson, Charles Babalola, Benjamin Byron Davis, Steven Boyer, Ryann Redmond, and Bobby Lee.
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Arad Productions’ Avi Arad and Ari Arad are producing the film, along with Picturestart’s Erik Feig. Gearbox founder Randy Pitchford and CEO of Take-Two Interactive Strauss Zelnick are executive producers. Lionsgate’s James Myers and Aaron Edmonds are overseeing the project along with Arad’s Emmy Yu and Picturestart’s Lucy Kitada and Royce Reeves-Darby.
