10 Actors Who Might Save Upcoming Movies

10. Jack Black - Borderlands

Sure to be one of the strangest films hitting cinemas next year, Eli Roth's adaptation of the legendary Borderlands video games will be co-written by Roth and Chernobyl's Craig Mazin, while somehow roping in prestige acting talents like Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis.

While many fans scratched their heads at the left-field castings of Blanchett, Curtis, and Kevin Hart in the roles of Lilith, Dr. Patricia Tannis, and Roland respectively, there is one absolutely spot-on bout of casting which could prop up the entire movie.

Jack Black has been cast to provide the voice of the iconic, irreverent robot Claptrap, and while his vocal stylings aren't a 1:1 match to the Claptrap from the video games, it's easy to appreciate how Black, himself a huge gamer, will still do justice to the talkative bot.

If the script's even half-way good, Black'll be able to tear through the witty quips and hopefully balance out what is undeniably one of the trickiest video game adaptations to date.

Given that Black was largely credited with elevating Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle - a film which invited enormous pre-release skepticism from fans of the 1995 original - there's even existing precedent already.