Director: Eli Roth
"Borderlands" (2024) brings the long-running video-game series to the screen, dropping a mismatched crew of bounty hunters onto the outlaw-run planet Pandora in search of a relic worth more than any of them can imagine.
What is Borderlands about?
Pandora is a lawless, sun-scorched planet crawling with bandit gangs and abandoned corporate ruins, and it's here that bounty hunter Lilith gets pulled into a job she didn't ask for: track down a missing girl named Tina who may hold the key to a legendary vault rumored to be buried somewhere on the planet. Along the way she picks up an odd assortment of allies — a washed-up mercenary, a scientist with a chip on her shoulder, a hulking soldier, and a small robot with a mouth on it — none of whom fully trust each other and all of whom have their own reasons for wanting what's inside that vault. Director Eli Roth leans into the source game's mix of scavenged weapons, gallows humor, and roving gangs, keeping the group's bickering front and center as they cross the wasteland toward whatever is actually buried underneath it.
Cast & crew
Cate Blanchett leads as Lilith, joined by Kevin Hart, Jack Black (voicing the robot Claptrap), Jamie Lee Curtis, Edgar Ramírez, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu, and Gina Gershon in a cast built around the game's colorful roster of misfits.
Context & significance
Adapted from the Borderlands game franchise, the 2024 film translates a cel-shaded, loot-driven world into live action, keeping the games' signature blend of science fiction, dark comedy, and shoot-first bounty-hunter culture. It sits alongside other big video-game adaptations of its era, aimed at fans who already know Pandora's gangs and vaults as much as newcomers meeting the setting for the first time.
Where & how to watch
"Borderlands" streams on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so viewers can choose whichever fits how they like to watch. The title page is open to everyone without needing to sign in, and watching the film itself only requires a free K-Time account. The platform's whole experience, from search to subtitles, is built around Farsi-speaking audiences in the diaspora.