Deadpool director Tim Miller's taking over the Borderlands movie

Miller’s handling reshoots in place of director Eli Roth

We’ve known for a few years that Gearbox’s sci-fi shooterBorderlandsis being adapted for the silver screen, but shooting on the movie is now almost finished. Director Eli Roth, known for grisly stuff such as Cabin Fever, has jumped off the project ahead of schedule though. Deadlinereportthat Roth has handed Borderlands over to his friend Tim Miller, the director of Deadpool. Miller will oversee a few weeks of reshoots for Borderlands while Roth begins work on a horror movie called Thanksgiving.

Miller seems like an appropriate director to take over Borderlands from Roth, even at this late stage. Deadpool was definitely a wacky action movie that strikes a similar tone to the Borderlands games, so there’s that. Miller was also a visual effects producer for games such asMass Effect 2andStar Wars: The Old Republicin the past, and directed the Sonic The Hedgehog movies. I’m going to go on record as actually enjoying both of those video game adaptations. So, yeah, explosions plus comedy could equal tolerable film.

There’s no confirmed release date just yet for the Borderlands movie, but I’ll let you know when one’s announced. I’m slightly more interested now that Miller’s involved.