Lionsgate is doing a little injury management in the present day following rumors which were spreading on-line that Eli Roth has been fired for the much-anticipated Borderlands film adaptation, with Tim Miller (Deadpool, Terminator: Darkish Destiny) changing him. In accordance with Deadline, Miller is stepping in because the director of Borderlands‘ upcoming two weeks of reshoots, however Roth has not been fired. As a substitute, they’re saying Roth is busy prepping to shoot his long-awaited vacation slasher, Thanksgiving, based mostly on his notorious Grindhouse trailer. That movie is gearing up for a March shoot which, theoretically, can’t be delayed in the event that they need to get the film out for a Thanksgiving debut.

Deadline notes that the baton handing is pleasant, with Roth and Miller associates, and that Roth remains to be formally the film’s director. Notably, the movie, which stars Cate Blanchett because the heroine Lilith, was shot earlier than this yr’s Tar. Certainly, I really noticed some footage of it at CinemaCon again in April, and it regarded like a fairly radical adaptation, with Roth seemingly sticking intently to the sport’s visible aesthetic. For Roth, this can be a massive step in the direction of the mainstream, with it simply his highest-profile venture to this point. Whereas Thanksgiving sounds extra up his alley, it’s going to nonetheless be attention-grabbing to see his method for the star-studded adaption. The film additionally stars Kevin Hart, Edgar Ramirez, Jack Black and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Whereas it sounds unconventional for an additional director to deal with reshoots, it’s been carried out earlier than, with Tony Gilroy engaged on Rogue One, James McTeigue reshooting a few of The Invasion, after which the large last-minute reshoots for World Warfare Z, though apparently the identical director was stored for these. A minimum of this time, it feels like Roth handed over the baton willingly, and it’d simply come right down to scheduling points (let’s not overlook that Blanchett is presently in the course of an enormous awards marketing campaign for Tar).

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