Country: United States
Language: English

About the film:

After returning to her home planet Pandora, infamous outlaw Lilith is given a dangerous mission and forms an alliance (and potential friendship) with other criminals, including former mercenary Roland, demolitionist Tiny Tina and her protector Krieg, insane scientist Tannis, and the wisecracking robot Claptrap. The mission: find and protect the missing (and important) daughter of a powerful man named Atlas. But things may not be as they seem, as the girl holds the key to great power that can change the fate of the universe.

Images courtesy of Lionsgate

About the filmmaker:

Eli Roth is an American actor and filmmaker who has has been a leading force in the horror genre since his feature directorial debut Cabin Fever (2002) screened as a last minute addition to the iconic after-hours Midnight Madness section of the Toronto Film Festival, where he returned with the infamous Hostel (2005) and cannibal horror The Green Inferno (2013). His erotic thriller Knock Knock (2015) premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. As an actor, Roth starred in Quentin Tarantino’s war film Inglourious Basterds (2009), for which he received a Critic’s Choice Movie Award and an SAG Award as part of the ensemble, and had a fun cameo in Piranha 3-D (2010) from director Alexandre Aja.

Among other projects, he also directed the action thriller remake Death Wish (2018) and PG-rated fantasy comedy The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018), and he worked on the screenplays for Nicolás López’s earthquake disaster film Aftershock (2012) and RZA’s martial arts film The Man with the Iron Fists (2018). Roth also wrote and directed the upcoming video game adaptation Borderlands. For his body of work, Roth received the Visionary Award at the inaugural Stanley Film Festival in 2013.

MAJOR SUPPORT
Ohio Arts Council
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Columbus Foundation
Campus Partners
National Endowment for the Arts

WITH HELP FROM
G&J Pepsi
WOSU Public Media