Jack Black Joins Expanding Cast of Eli Roth’s New BORDERLANDS Movie as Snarky Robot Claptrap

Josh Millican |

Feb 11, 2021

Eli Roth’s adaptation of the popular video game Borderlands with Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart will shoot this year. Earlier this week, we got word that horror icon Jamie Lee Curtis had joined the cast as Dr. Patricia Tannis.

Today brings word that Jack Black has joined the production. Deadline reports:

Black will voice the role of Claptrap, a persistently sarcastic robot that isn’t all that invested in the survival of his teammate.

Black and Roth worked together previously on The House with a Clock in Its Walls. Deadline quotes the director enthusiastically praising the actor:

“I am so excited to reunite with Jack, this time in the recording booth. Claptrap is the funniest character in the game, and Jack is perfect to bring him to the big screen.”

Roth (Cabin Fever) will helm this adaptation of the bestselling video game from a screenplay by Emmy-winner Craig Mazin (Chernobyl). Avi Arad, Ari Arad, and Erik Feig produce. Randy Pitchford and Strauss Zelnick are executive producers.

Borderlands is a series of action role-playing first-person shooter video games in a space western science fantasy setting, created by Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games for multiple platforms.

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