Lionsgate has tapped Edgar Ramirez to play the role of “business titan and arms manufacturer” Atlas in the upcoming Borderlands movie, the company announced in a press release.
?What an incredible honor to have an actor of Edgar?s caliber, talent, and charisma playing opposite Cate Blanchett and this remarkable cast,? said director Eli Roth. “Atlas has to be a truly magnetic personality, someone with charisma and charm but that air of menace underneath it all. I?ve been a fan of Edgar?s since his early performances and he continues to amaze me with each dramatic turn. We want to create something wild, fun, and very different from anything they?ve seen from Edgar before. I am so, so excited to work with him.”
Lionsgate also released the movie’s plot. A synopsis is as follows:
Two-time Academy Award® winner Cate Blanchett teams up with Kevin Hart in director Eli Roth?s Borderlands. Lilith (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 (Ramirez). Lilith forms an alliance with an unexpected team ? Roland (Hart), a former elite mercenary, now desperate for redemption; Tiny Tina (Greenblatt), a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg (Munteanu), Tina?s musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector; Tannis (Curtis), the scientist with a tenuous grip on sanity; and Claptrap (Black), a persistently wiseass robot. These u...