Eli Roth has been busy gathering the cast he needs for his adaptation of the Borderlands game. The latest addition is Ariana Greenblatt, known for films such as Avengers: Infinity War (she was young Gamora) and A Bad Moms Christmas.
With Craig Mazin on script duty, the story for the film is largely under wraps, but it'll likely follow a version of the game, which has a group of four Vault Hunters who travel to the distant planet Pandora to hunt down an alien vault that is rumored to contain advanced alien technology. They quickly find themselves battling the local wildlife and bandit population as they attempt to stop the head of a private army from reaching the vault first. Greenblatt is playing Tiny Tina, an unstable, 13-year-old explosives expert.
"Ariana is a spectacular new talent in cinema," Roth says in a statement. "She has already worked with many of my close collaborators and everyone raves about her. She blew us all away in her audition, and I cannot wait to see her bring the wild, insane and unpredictable Tiny Tina to the big screen. She’s going to blow up on screen like one of Tina’s grenades."
Greenblatt joins the likes of Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis and Jack Black, with the latter landing the voice role of Claptrap.