Cate Blanchett is teaming up with a particular group of ragtag buddies to assist her tackle an alien planet in Borderlands.

The trailer, which was launched by Lionsgate on Wednesday, July 24, exhibits Blanchett’s Lilith returning to her candy-colored residence planet of Pandora to find the lacking daughter of Atlas (Édgar Ramírez). To assist her together with her mission is a gaggle of fellow misfits, performed by the likes of Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Black and Florian Munteanu. Collectively, the group got down to battle an alien species and a myriad of harmful bandits to uncover one in every of Pandora’s most explosive secrets and techniques.

The trailer — set to Electrical Gentle Orchestra’s 1976 hit, “Do Ya” — reveals that Greenblatt’s Tiny Tina (a feral pre-teen demolitionist) will be the key to opening the vault that helps them full their mission. That, in fact, gained’t be simple because the group finds themselves being attacked, chased and peed on by large tentacled aliens out to destroy them.

“How are we going to get by means of this?” Blanchett might be seen asking as Hart’s Roland, tosses a stuffed bunny explosive down a tunnel. “Everyone run!” the wisecracking robotic, Claptrap (Black), says in response earlier than the credit roll.

Borderlands, which is predicated on the online game of the identical title, hits theaters on August 9. Eli Roth serves as director and cowriter alongside Joe Crombie. Roth instructed Hollywood Insider in April that whereas the movie is certainly an “adaption” of its supply materials, he labored “intently” with Gearbox Software program founder Randy Pitchford to honor the sport and work in as many “Easter eggs” as attainable.

“I need to be certain that we’re on the earth of Borderlands however at the start we’re making a fantastic film,” Roth defined of his artistic method. “And if individuals play the sport they’re going to adore it but when they’ve by no means performed the sport they’re going to like the film. In order somebody who knew the sport however wasn’t intimately acquainted I might deal with making a fantastic film.”

He continued, “I wished to ensure I wasn’t breaking the foundations of the universe but when I wished to adapt one thing, [Randy] was, like, ‘Oh, go for it.’ The video games are the video games and the film is the film.”

Roth confessed his deep love for sci-fi movies is what first drew him to the mission,. “Enjoyable, large, loopy sci-fi motion pictures like Fifth Ingredient and Raiders of the Misplaced Ark and wild motion pictures, like Escape From New York,” he defined. “So to have the possibility to sort of, like, mix all of these parts — a bit of little bit of Mad Max, a bit of little bit of Star Wars — into this universe, I jumped on the probability.”

Blanchett, Roth famous, was on the prime of his record for Lilth after the duo beforehand labored collectively on The Home With a Clock in Its Partitions — and the remainder of the A-list solid fell in to put from there.

“I used to be clearly most excited to work with Cate Blanchett, I imply, she’s unbelievable,” he gushed. “We had the perfect time working collectively [before], in order quickly as I had Cate, I knew I had an opportunity at Jack Black. After getting Cate Blanchett, it’s simple, as a result of she comes on and everybody else needs to return on.”

Borderlands hits theaters on August 9.