Lionsgate Enlists Avi And Ari Arad To Produce Game Adaptation, BORDERLANDS
Look out for another live-action video game adaptation heading our way from Lionsgate! Word has it from Variety that father-and-son producer duo Avi and Ari Arad are developing a big screen rendition of the hit shooter RPG, Borderlands. The film, based on the game, will take place on the corporate-abandoned planet of Pandora where access to a mysterious vault containing alien technology will ultimately determine life or death for a group of colonial survivors against a burrowing alien menace. Gearbox Software created the game which published in 2009 through Take-Two Interactive Software’s 2K label, selling to the tune of well-over thirty-million copies globally to date. Cast and crew details are pending, though folks at Take Two are clearly sold on the Arads’ in the producers’ chair. “Lionsgate has emerged as a major creative force in the global marketplace with an incredible portfolio of brands; our partners at Gearbox have pioneered […]