The "Borderlands" movie has been in the pipeline for quite a while. By the time of its scheduled arrival in movie theaters, nearly a decade will have passed from when the producers gave it the green light.
In 2015, production and distribution company Lionsgate announced that it had formed a partnership with video game publisher Gearbox Software to adapt their hit game "Borderlands" into a highly budgeted, high-profile feature. Lionsgate kept working on the movie for five years but with little to show for its efforts until 2020, when it hired "Hostel," "Hemlock Grove," and "The House with a Clock in Its Walls" helmer Eli Roth to direct the adaptation.
Filming commenced, with reshoots completed in early 2023. And then a few months after that, Lionsgate revealed at the 2023 San Diego Comic-Con that its "Borderlands" movie was set to hit movie theaters on August 9, 2024. August will be quite the month for genre fans, as "Borderlands" will share the box office with titles such "Captain America: Brave New World," Fede Álvarez's "Alien" installment, and M. Night Shyamalan's thriller "Trap."
