The Borderlands film wrapped principal pictures in June 2021. Now, two years later and following reshoots and rewrites, Final of Us co-writer and co-creator Craig Mazin has seemingly determined he doesn’t need his identify hooked up to the upcoming movie which nonetheless doesn’t have a launch date or trailer.
First introduced in 2015, it took years for the Borderlands film to really lock down a director and begin filming. Primarily based on the favored Gearbox-developed sci-fi co-op FPS RPG franchise, Borderlands lastly began filming in 2021 with a star-studded forged that included Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Jamie Lee Curtis. In June 2021, shortly after filming was completed, we obtained our first have a look at the forged as their characters. Nevertheless, two years later, that’s mainly all we’ve seen. Not an excellent signal! In January 2023, issues solely obtained worse because it was confirmed that the movie would obtain reshoots below a brand new director, Tim Miller. A brand new author, Zak Olkewicz, was additionally introduced in to assist pen some new pages for Miller. And now, it appears just like the movie’s authentic co-writer, Craig Mazin, desires his identify nowhere close to this movie.
As reported by World of Reel and confirmed through the Author’s Guild web site, the present credited writers on the Borderlands movie are Eli Roth and Joe Crombie, a pseudonym for Craig Mazin. That is much like how, again within the day, administrators engaged on a movie they didn’t like or need their identify related to would decide to make use of the well-liked pretend identify of Alan Smithee. So it’s extremely probably that Mazin is doing the identical and selecting to omit his identify for a made-up credit score with a view to now not be hooked up to the upcoming movie adaptation.
Mazin got here to prominence writing comedy, with credit on screenplays like Scary Film III and The Hangover Half II. Extra not too long ago, nonetheless, he’s made a reputation for himself in status drama, helming HBO’s acclaimed Chernobyl sequence earlier than engaged on the TV adaptation of The Final of Us.
The Borderlands movie is a multitude
World of Reel additional experiences that past Mazin, Roth, and Olkewicz, an extended checklist of different writers have labored on the Borderlands film screenplay, together with Aaron Berg, Oren Uziel, Juel Taylor, Tony Rettenmaier, Chris Bremner, Gary Ross, and The Idol creator Sam Levinson.
Remember the fact that this film is based totally on the unique Borderlands recreation, which doesn’t have probably the most complicated or hard-to-tell story. So why practically a dozen writers have been introduced in to assist poke and prod on the film’s script, I don’t know. However my already low expectations for this movie have one way or the other plummeted even additional.
The Borderlands film will (most likely) be launched in theaters, ultimately. Possibly subsequent yr?
