‘Borderlands’ Review: Cate Blanchett Rocking A Killer Red Wig Livens Up Eli Roth’s Mess Of A Video Game Adaptation
deadline.comGoing in, I had my doubts about Borderlands, the latest overblown video game adaptation created to entice PG13 moviegoers. First off, it has a near decade-long history of failed attempts to crack its code, including Craig Mazin, who now shares a co-writing credit using “Joe Crombie,” who has only this one listed credit on iMDB and, according to iMDB, is Mazin’s pseudonym).
If this is the case, after wild small screen success with Chernobyl and The Last Of Us, you could understand why he wouldn’t want to be associated with the final product.
Then its original director and credited co-writer and Story creator Eli Roth shot the film during the pandemic in 2021. But when two weeks of reshoots were required, he had to turn it over to someone else due to his commitment to completing last year’s hoot of a holiday horror movie, Thanksgiving.
Thus, Tim Miller (2016’s Deadpool) took the reins and receives an Executive Producer credit. Finally, Lionsgate is dumping it in an August cinematic wasteland reminiscent of the actual wasteland that makes up Pandora, the shithole of a planet where most of the film is set.
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