Thor: Ragnarok's Cate Blanchett has officially signed on to Eli Roth's Borderlands film.
According to Variety, Blanchett will play Lilith, one of the main protagonists of the franchise. In the video game series, Lilith is one of six women in the galaxy who belongs to the "siren" class and has superhuman powers.
Eli Roth will be directing the film for Lionsgate, with Avi and Ari Arad producing. Craig Mazin, who is currently developing The Last of Us series of HBO, has written the latest script.
"I'm so lucky to have the amazing Cate Blanchett starring in Borderlands. We had the most incredible collaboration together on The House With a Clock in Its Walls, and I believe there’s nothing she can't do," said Roth. "From drama to comedy and now action, Cate makes every scene sing. Working with her is truly a director's dream come true, and I feel so fortunate that I get to do it again on an even bigger scale. Everyone brings their A-game to work with Cate, and I know together we're going to create another iconic character in her already storied career."
Borderlands is a role-playing first-person shooter franchise that is set on the planet Pandora. After being ravaged and abandoned by larger corporations in search of treasure, the left-behind workforce take over the planet and turn it into a lawless land. However, following the discovery of mystical Vaults, the corporations return to the planet to plunder its wealth.
Directed by Eli Roth, Borderlands stars Cate Blanchett. No release date for the film has been announced.