Summary
- Borderlands movie struggled to sell tickets and bombed commercially & critically.
- Director Eli Roth blames COVID and Zoom for the movie's disastrous launch.
- Over a decade-long, troubled production led to a lackluster final product.
The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Borderlands movie is a generational failure. Before it even launched, it 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:struggled to sell tickets, and it went on to bomb critically, 168澳洲幸运5ܫ开奖网:launching to a zero percent on 𓆏Rotten Tomatoes, and commercially, making around $30 million of its $150 millionꦑ budget back. The movie 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:earned Jack Black a Razzie nomination for Worst Supporting Actor, but somehow, it didn't end up in Metacritic's 'Ten Worst Video Game Ad﷽aptations Of All Time" list.
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Now, more than six months after its disastrous launch, director Eli Roth has be♛en reflecting on why the movie went so badly, blaming both COVID and Zoom Calls for its failure.
Borderlands Director Cites COVID As The Main Reason The Movie Flopped
The Borderlands movie was doomed from the start. It took over a decade from start to finish, faced multiple script re-writes, and lost multiple directors along the way. This meant it fell on the lap of Eli Roth, who has been looking back on what went wওrong.
Roth had previously said he "168澳洲幸运5开奖网:could write a book" on what went wrong with the movie, hinting that COVID was one of the main factors, but the director has now gone into more detail ꦡon the tr🔯ials and tribulations he faced when creating it.
"I think none of us, none of us anticipated how complicated things were gonna be with COVID," Roth told podcast (Via ). "Not just in terms of what we're shooting, but then you have to do pick-up shots or reshoots and you have﷽ six people that are all on different sets and e🧸very one of those sets is getting shut down because the cities have opened up, and now there's a COVID outbreak and it was just like… we couldn't prep in a room together, I couldn't be with my stunt people, I couldn't do pre-vis, everyone's spread all over the place. You can't prep a movie on that scale over Zoom, and I think we all thought we could pull it off, and we got our a**es handed to us a bit."
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During the discussion, Roth also discussed how, despite directing the movie, he didn't ♔have the final cut of, with Deadpool's Tim Miller stepping in as Roth moved onto his next project, Thanksgiving. He told The Town, "am I at the point of my career where I'm going to sit down to watch my own movie that says I wrote and directed it, and I really genuinely don't know what’s going to happen?"
Reading that, you almost, almost feel sorry for him.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Borderlands 4
- Released
- September 12, 2025
- ESRB
- Rating Pending
- Developer(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Gearbox Software
- Publisher(s)
- 2K
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 5
- Multiplayer
- Online Co-Op, Online Multﷺipl🐎ayer
- Cross-Platform Play
- Yes - all
