{"id":752193,"date":"2025-11-25T21:41:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-borderlands-movies-first-trailer-looks-as-ridiculous-as-the-games\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T21:41:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:41:54","slug":"the-borderlands-movies-first-trailer-looks-as-ridiculous-as-the-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-borderlands-movies-first-trailer-looks-as-ridiculous-as-the-games\/","title":{"rendered":"The Borderlands Movie&#8217;s First Trailer Looks As Ridiculous As The Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/the-borderlands-movies-first-trailer-looks-as-ridiculous-as-the-games.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Borderlands movie trailer\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long time coming, but the first trailer for <em>Borderlands<\/em> has finally arrived after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/gamer-culture\/2024\/02\/20\/check-out-the-first-images-from-the-live-action-borderlands-movie\">first images<\/a> of the movie emerged this week. First announced in 2015, the live-action film brings Gearbox\u2019s popular co-op loot shooter to life with some big-name stars, bigger explosions, and (hopefully) even bigger laughs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameBorder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lU_NKNZljoQ\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Directed by Eli Roth, the film stars Cate Blanchett (Lilith), Kevin Hart (Roland), Jack Black (Claptrap), Edgar Ram\u00edrez (Atlas), Ariana Greenblatt (Tiny Tina), Florian Munteanu (Krieg), Gina Gershon (Moxxi), and Jamie Lee Curtis (Tannis). Like the games, the film follows our group of Vault Hunters as they search for a valuable relic on the desert planet of Pandora.&nbsp;They also stumble upon a missing girl with a powerful secret that could endanger the universe.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Borderlands<\/em> hits theaters on August 9.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2024\/02\/21\/the-borderlands-movies-first-trailer-looks-as-ridiculous-as-the-games\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time coming, but the first trailer for Borderlands has finally arrived after the first images of the movie emerged this week. First announced in 2015, the live-action film brings Gearbox\u2019s popular co-op loot shooter to life with some big-name stars, bigger explosions, and (hopefully) even bigger laughs.&nbsp; Directed by Eli Roth, the film stars Cate Blanchett (Lilith), Kevin Hart (Roland), Jack Black (Claptrap), Edgar Ram\u00edrez (Atlas), Ariana Greenblatt (Tiny Tina), Florian Munteanu (Krieg), Gina Gershon (Moxxi), and Jamie Lee Curtis (Tannis). Like the games, the film follows our group of Vault Hunters as they search for a valuable relic on the desert planet of Pandora.&nbsp;They also stumble upon a missing girl with a powerful secret that could endanger the universe.&nbsp; Borderlands&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-borderlands-movies-first-trailer-looks-as-ridiculous-as-the-games\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":752194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-informer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Borderlands Movie&#039;s First Trailer Looks As Ridiculous As The Games | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It&#039;s been a long time coming, but the first trailer for Borderlands has finally arrived after the first images of the movie emerged this week. 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