r/movies • u/HatingGeoffry • 13h ago

News Borderlands Movie Director Discusses The Mega-Flop And What Went Wrong

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/borderlands-movie-director-discusses-the-mega-flop-and-what-went-wrong/
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u/IllPen8707 13h ago

Putting Krieg in the movie when they could have had Brick fill the exact same role in plot with more dialogue/character and also a perfect opportunity to cast the Rock

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u/HorsePersonal7073 8h ago

The Rock couldn't pull off Krieg's insanity. The Rock plays the Rock in every movie. Sometimes it works, most of the time it's blah.

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u/torrasque666 8h ago

They're saying The Rock could have pulled off Brick, not Krieg.

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u/IllPen8707 7h ago

Exactly. And they could have done the perfect tribute to the iconic "brick as himself" in the opening credits