hwood here's what's hot on screen based on one of the bestselling video game franchises of all time the fate of the universe lies in the hands of a ragtag group of Misfits in Borderlands from director Eli Roth what you look at that a ladder unfortunately my design doesn't facilitate this type of well Destiny awaits well the story you know was uh producer Ari rod and Randy Pitchford spent a long time with different writers trying different permutations until they settled on this story one of the things we talked about was like how do we change stuff and adapt it from a video game to a movie there's certain things that you obviously want to be faithful to like the costumes the design the guns the tech there's certain things that are beloved in the game and we could fill the movie with Easter eggs and the game is an 18 rated game it's a very very violent game but to render the universe this Gale the studio wants to make a PG-13 movie and I wanted to make something for the you know the 9-year-old boy in me Legend has it that there's this massive treasure hidden in some secret vault and if you go hunting for it you'd better take any help you can get I'm terrible at games so I had to have Christy Pitchford take me through the game co-playing with her but I love it I love the sense of humor I love the creatures I love the sense of insanity I love the world I love love in this kind of the detrus of the world they're trying to make something beautiful out of it and the trashed planet um and it made me think of Fifth Element and what I saw on that movie that was the idea of like rendering something that didn't look like any other movie you had seen before cuz it's on the weirdest most dangerous dumpster fire of a world in the universe God I hate this planet Kate was the first one I called I said you know I'm making this insane kind of spaghetti western Space Opera fun Cypher video game adaptation and I need someone to be a total badass and she's like I'm in let's do it so you know Kate learned to twirl guns she wanted to shoot she wanted to do her own stunts we put her in harness and ratcheted her there sequence where she's jumping in these trucks they were 100 feet in the air on wires and harnesses once you have Kate you know she's actor bait everybody wants to act with Kate so I called Jack right away said you're she's going to be a pissed off Bounty Hunter and you're the annoying robot and he he's a big Borderlands player so he knew clap trap he was all in and then Jam Lee said she wanted to play Tannis which I just she was my first choice and she said yes she wanted to she's like you had me a cap lanch there's only want to be on the world you're special uhoh killed them all I've noticed if I do too many horror films in a row I start to get burnout it's good for me to switch it up and challenge myself creatively and learn new skills and you learn something every time every day on set every shot you're learning something new so I never want to get tired of doing it [Applause] [Music] youwood hey guys thanks for checking out this video we want to know what would you have asked let us know in the comments below and if you liked this video don't forget to hit the like button and as always for more videos like this hit the mih TV logo right here and for the next awesome video click right there oh