“None of us were expected to see how difficult it was”: Borderlands director returns to the bitter failure of the movie

Small feeding sequence. In 2015, we learned that Borderlands Video Games Franchise will soon be the subject of adaptation to the cinema, (mini) under the lead Lionsgate.

Released in 2009 and developed Texan Studio A box of turning” Boundary There was a game mixing role -playing in the first mouth and shooting, in which four Badas and charismatic adventurers began on behalf of Pandora to look for a famous arch on the planet, which must contain all the treasures of the universe.

In the open world, in the distant post-apocalyptic inspiration atmosphere, it is concerned about Mad Max, but much more fun and forbidden, the studio is very struck by the qualification of its title. The shooting was robbed. But even more of her suits, Borderlands 2 And her absolutely brilliant evil, beautiful Jackie, who sold over 19 million copies.

Added with other video games spin (including excellent Tales from the border countries In 2014) Borderlands franchise is an absolute cash amount for its developer and especially for its publisher, 2K. The last opus at that time, Borderlands 3Released in September 2019. We told you here what we were thinking about.

Box office in a sad shade

In February 2020, Gearbox Studio owner Randy Pittford, along with Fanfare, announced the arrival of director Eli Rott with this adaptation control. And it all started because nothing happened as it was planned.

With a budget of $ 110-120 million, Borderlands were released four years after its main shooting, and many fans were already talking about the fact that the game violence, an integral part of his world, was completely anesthetized to enter the PG-13 nails.

Reshoots were resolved in 2023, but Eli Roth was not available because he turned out to be a Thanksgiving Day, which lions of Deadpool director Tim Miller, to finish the film, by copying the screenwriters by almost seven screenwriters. It was already badly committed, the film also suffered a bad advertisement when screenwriter Craig Mazin, behind Chernobyl and the last one of us, asked him to remove his name from the credits …

Published in the summer of 2024, Borderlands were one of the largest failures in the box office. Skatin’s shutter, which has the above energy: the film was unable to collect more than $ 34 million in international cash registers. Only in the American territory, it collected only $ 15.4 million.

“You took the amount, you think”

Eli Rott has recently returned to this failure a Podkast (Through slashfilm),, In 2021, the restrictions and restrictions related to the pandemic of the COVVI-19 weighed the production of the film.

“I think that none of us are expected to be complicated by Covid – not only what we were going to return. Together in the room.

I couldn’t be my stuntmen. I couldn’t look at it. Everyone has been dispersed everywhere and we cannot make a movie of this scale. I think we all thought we could do it there and we had a little shot to the buttocks. “

Roth still receives the share of responsibility in this failure. “You took the amount, you think” He said. “I believe that after they are paid you, it’s part of the contract, Various creations or other things that happen ”. Nevertheless, we imagine that the slate left by the bitter failure of the movie had to be a little difficult to reduce the studio …