Eli Roth will direct a movie based on the video game `Borderlands` for Lionsgate - a project that's been in the works for five years.

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.

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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.