Pro Bodybuilder Olivier Richters Will Play Krom in BORDERLANDS
As director Eli Roth is shooting his film adaptation of Borderlands, it’s been announced that professional bodybuilder Olivier Richters (Black Widow, The Kings Man) will be taking on the role of Krom. Krom is the terrifying leader of the psycho bandits that rule Pandora.
Richters joins a fantastic ensemble cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu, Haley Bennett, Edgar Ramirez and Jack Black.
Based on the bestselling PC and console gaming franchise from developer Gearbox Software and publisher 2K Games, the movie will center around a group called Vault Hunters led by Lilith and Roland and a group of unlikely heroes recruited for a retrieval mission.
In the film, “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 unlikely heroes must battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to find and protect the missing girl, who may hold the key to unimaginable power. The fate of the universe could be in their hands – but they’ll be fighting for something more: each other."
The script for the film comes from Craig Mazin, the Emmy-winning creator of HBO's Chernobyl.