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This Oscar Winning Actress Just Signed On for A Movie Based On The World's Most Popular Video Game · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood. More and more video games are getting
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Speaker 1: spun into movies and TV shows, with everything from Angry
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Speaker 1: Birds to Sonic the Hedgehog recently being adapted. But a
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Speaker 1: new video game movie in development just got an Oscar
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Speaker 1: winning actress to sign on. Kate Blanchett will star in Borderlands,
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Speaker 1: based on the widely popular game franchise of the same name.
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Speaker 1: Set on a planet that mixes the wild West with
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Speaker 1: a post apocalyptic future. She'll be teaming back up with
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Speaker 1: director Eli Roth for the project, who worked with her
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Speaker 1: on The House with the Clock in Its Walls. Little
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Speaker 1: more is known about the film other than Kate will
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Speaker 1: play a character named Lilith, a siren who uses her
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Speaker 1: magical abilities for some criminal pursuits. Borderlands is expected to
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Speaker 1: shoot next year. That's direct from Hollywood.