The studio said production will begin later this year. Lionsgate announced in 2015 that it had attached producers Avi and Ari Arad to `Borderlands` through Arad Prods. and said Thursday that Erik Feig is also producing via his Picturestart banner. Craig Mazin, who won an Emmy for writing `Chernobyl,` has written the latest screenplay draft.
`Borderlands,` launched in 2009, is a role-playing first-person shooter game created and developed by Gearbox Software and published by Take-Two Interactive Software's 2K label. The game is set on the frontier of a sci-fi universe - the planet of Pandora - which has been abandoned by a mega-corporation prior to the game events. The series has sold more than 57 million units worldwide. The most recent installment, `Borderlands 3,` was released last September.
The film's executive producers are Randy Pitchford, executive producer of the `Borderlands` video game franchise and founder of Gearbox Software, and Strauss Zelnick, chairman and CEO of Take-Two Interactive. James Myers is overseeing the project on behalf of Lionsgate. Emmy Yu is overseeing the film for Arad Productions. Lucy Kitada will oversee the project for Picturestart.
