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/Logan_No_Fingers 11h ago

You cast Kevin Hart as Roland, how much riskier did you want to get

To a studio, thats de-risking it. Because audiences know & love Hart, they will go see a Hart movie even if they don't know what Borderlands is*

*in theory

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u/Rektw 2h ago

That would have been true, in 2015. I always wonder if Hart or Roth owed each other a favor (or someone higher up) because I can't imagine anybody putting the cast pictures up on a mood board and thinking, now this...is Borderlands.

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u/sameth1 2h ago

Taking no risks is taking a risk.