Borderlands: Tim Miller to Direct Reshoots, Eli Roth Not Fired

Following circulating reports about the production of Lionsgate’s upcoming Borderlands movie, Deadline brings word that Deadpool director Tim Miller has signed on to oversee the two-week reshoots needed for the film adaptation of the hit video game series.

The outlet further confirms that director Eli Roth has not been fired. He has instead let Miller takeover the Borderlands movie reshoots for the meantime, as he’s currently in production for his newest horror film titled Thanksgiving, which is based on his parody trailer that was in Robert Rodriguez’s 2007 film Grindhouse.

The Borderlands movie is expected to exist in a different universe than the game which will allow the project to stray away from the first game in the franchise. The star-studded film will be led by Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Black, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu, Olivier Richters, and Edgar Ramirez.

The film is directed by 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.

Borderlands is being produced by Arad Productions’ Avi Arad and Ari Arad, along with Picturestart’s Erik Feig. It will be executive produced by Gearbox founder Randy Pitchford and CEO of Take-Two Interactive Strauss Zelnick. 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.