The movie is set to come out this August, and before we get the trailer drop, the studio has dropped some new stills of the characters, a poster, and a teaser. Check these out:

First poster for the live-action ‘BORDERLANDS’ movie.

In theaters on August 9. pic.twitter.com/dzf3ofu3B8

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Higher quality versions of those two first look images from the Borderlands movie. Enjoy. pic.twitter.com/5NbYSh21tH

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The synopsis for the movie reads:

Lilith (Cate Blanchett), an infamous outlaw with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora to find the missing daughter of the universe’s most powerful S.O.B., Atlas. Lilith forms an alliance with an unexpected team – Roland (Kevin Hart), a former elite mercenary, now desperate for redemption; Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt), a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg (Florian Munteanu), Tina’s musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector; Tannis (Jamie Lee Curtis), the scientist with a tenuous grip on sanity; and Claptrap (Jack Black), a persistently wiseass robot. These unlikely heroes must battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to find and protect the missing girl, who may hold the key to unimaginable power. The fate of the universe.

If you’ve checked out the Borderlands games, you’ll know that they have a different twist to the Wasteland aspect. Sure, the Mad Max inspiration is clear, but we also see that the game is more colorful—which is something the movie is trying to emulate.

Fans of the game will also recognize all the characters in the crew, which are a mix of playable and non-playable characters. More characters from the game are also set to make an appearance, but we’ll probably have to wait for the official trailer drop to get a look at them as well.

Catch Borderlands when it hits theaters on Aug. 9.

A new trailer has been dropped for the film, and it has everything you can expect from a Roth movie about pilgrims and turkey. Watch this:

The synopsis reads:

After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the holiday. Picking off residents one by one, what begins as random revenge killings are soon revealed to be part of a larger, sinister holiday plan. Will the town uncover the killer and survive the holidays…or become guests at his twisted holiday dinner table?

We know that Halloween and Christmas dominate the holiday film genre, but once in a while we also get some films focused solely on American Thanksgiving. What’s interesting is, the movie is actually based on the faux trailer that Roth directed for Grindhouse which also featured him (he’s the guy getting head in the car):

No doubt, this Thanksgiving movie looks to be asking the audience to watch it with a cynical lens, and with Roth on the helm, we should expect all kinds of human suffering to be portrayed onscreen. How has this guy not been approached to direct a Saw film?

Watch out for Thanksgiving when it comes to cinemas on Nov. 17.

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In the original Borderlands game, Lilith was a leader of the Sirens, a group of women with special powers. We don’t know if Lilith will be the central character of the film, but at the age of 52, I’m not expecting someone like Blanchett to be doing a lot of action in this movie. If anything, I’m expecting her role to be some kind of Mad Max version of Galadriel from Lord of the Rings, but that’s just speculation on my part.

With the Mad Max spinoff Furiosa pushing forward with Anya Taylor-Joy, director Eli Roth will have to find a way to make his Borderlands film be more visually distinct—which is kind of hard to do since Mad Max has provided the template for these colorful, post-apocalyptic wastelands. Maybe we could have a story set in space? All we can really do is wait and see.

Besides Blanchett, and previously mentioned actors, the film also includes Haley Bennet, Gina Gershon, Edgar Ramirez, Ariana Greenblatt, Janina Gavankar, and Bobby Lee.

Here’s the official description of Borderlands so far:

A feature film based on the popular video game set on the abandoned fictional planet of Pandora where people search for a mysterious relic.

The Borderlands movie is expected to come out sometime in 2022.