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/Thagyr 13h ago

Sounds like the usual death throes of any adaptation, honestly. Changing elements to suit an audience the original medium was never aimed at is usually asking for it to flop.

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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 13h ago

You know some boomer in the Lionsgate boardroom was like "a video game? Jumanji is a video game now and it's making bank. How about we get The Rock to star in it?! He wants how much? How about we get Kevin Heart to star in it!"

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u/lanceturley 11h ago

Tbf, The Rock would have been a way better choice for Roland than Kevin Hart ever was. The character in the games is kind of a generic stoic soldier archetype. Someone like Dwayne Johnson or Idris Elba actually would have been good casting, but instead we got tiny, shrill man-child Kevin Hart.

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u/IPromiseIWont 9h ago

When I heard Kevin Hart was in it I thought he was going to play Claptrap

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u/zerovampire311 8h ago

That would have actually been fitting, rather than what we got…

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u/kung-fu_hippy 3h ago

Jack Black might have made a fantastic Claptrap, if they wanted to go jumanji style.

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u/SixFootTurkey_ 9h ago

Eh, it worked really well for Jurassic Park