Haley Bennett Is The Most Important Thing In The Borderlands Movie

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Every now and then, I remember that there's a Borderlands movie coming out. It seems like such a strange idea; Borderlands does have some interesting characters, and despite him reducing others to a ball of writhing cringe, I will defend Handsome Jack as one of the best video game villains ever created. Hell, I even like CL4P-TR4P. I'm a Borderlands fan, probably more than I am, say, an Uncharted fan, and despite my reservations I had a great time with Tom Holland's globe-trotting adventures. But I'm still not sure it needs to exist.

I've written about the issues with video game movies recently, when discussing BioShock's upcoming feature. It's difficult to translate video games to movies - Detective Pikachu, Sonic the Hedgehog, Werewolves Within, and Uncharted all ignore conventions, tropes, or core plot points and themes of their original games, and come out the other end of it as a good movie, but not much of an adaptation. That's to their strength, too. Wahlberg might not be much of a Sully, but Sophia Ali is an excellent Chloe yet one of the movie's weakest parts. Tati Gabrielle's Braddock is an entirely new character, yet is the best thing in it. Here's where Borderlands comes in, and why Haley Bennett is so important.

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We know pretty much all of the cast for Borderlands right now. Cate Blanchett is Lilith, Kevin Hart is Roland, Jamie Lee Curtis is Tannis, Jack Black (who else?) is Claptrap, and Red Dead Redemption's Benjamin Byron Davis is Marcus. Many of the smaller parts have been cast as well, but Haley Bennett is an unknown. Of the currently available cast list, which includes 16 names at present, Bennett is the only one without a character, and that's because she's