2024’s Borderlands film was not a giant success on the field workplace, bringing in simply $33 million and garnering a cool important reception as effectively. Regardless of the film’s lack of efficiency critically and commercially, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford is not giving up on future transmedia alternatives.
Talking to The Gamer, Pitchford mentioned he could be open to the thought of one other stab at it if the suitable workforce of individuals and concepts come collectively on the proper second.
“My perspective is, if there are nice creators, artists, entertainers which have one thing to say they usually suppose they’ll solely do it with Borderlands, they usually can reveal that they’ll do it, I need to allow that. We do not at all times succeed, however we have to maintain swinging,” he mentioned.
Pitchford went on to say that one of the vital well-known and beloved bands of all time, The Beatles, did not hit a house run with each track they wrote–at least for Pitchford’s ear.
“I really like the Beatles, and there is plenty of Beatles music, [and] I simply completely cannot hearken to a few of it. I feel it is unlistenable. Ought to we are saying, ‘You already know what? You made an unlistenable track […], due to this fact, make no extra music.’ That is not the perspective, you understand, preserve making music,” he mentioned.
Additionally within the interview, Pitchford mentioned the Borderlands film wouldn’t have been improved had he been the director. In reality, Pitchford mentioned the film would have been “means worse” had he made it.
“I promise you, if I directed that film, it would be a catastrophe,” he mentioned.
The Borderlands film was a flop, however that did not influence Gearbox–at least by way of financials–because film studio Lionsgate funded it. Selection reported that the film price $120 million to make, with “tens of thousands and thousands” extra spent on advertising. Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer did not mince phrases when discussing how poorly the film did for the corporate.
“Practically all the pieces that might go fallacious did go fallacious,” Feltheimer mentioned. “It sat on the shelf for too lengthy in the course of the pandemic, and reshoots and rising rates of interest took it outdoors the security zone of our standard strict monetary fashions.”
The Borderlands film got here up quick regardless of being based mostly on a longtime franchise with a passionate fandom, an enormous solid of huge names like Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Jamie Lee Curtis, together with the backing of a significant Hollywood film studio with Lionsgate. For her half, Blanchett mentioned she agreed to be within the Borderlands film to get herself out of the home throughout Covid.
As for the sport collection, Borderlands 4 launches on September 12 for PC, Xbox Sequence X|S, and PS5, earlier than touchdown on PS5 in October. For extra, take a look at the Borderlands 4 world launch occasions.
