Take-Two’s CEO is urging fans to give theBorderlands filma chance as it debuted to a slew of horrendous reviews.
The Borderlands film finally arrived on August 8, and many are alreadydubbing it one of the worst films of the year. Debuting with an embarrassing0% on Rotten Tomatoes, it’s not a great start for the franchise.
Be it the film’s overuse of cliches, viewers calling it “lifeless” and “unfunny,” or being lambasted as a “disgrace” to the video game franchise, it’s not sitting well. Here at Dexerto, we gave it a 3/5, calling it a “mindless laugh.”
In an interview withIGN,Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said of the film’s negative reviews, “Let’s give the film a chance. A lot of people worked really hard on it. The underlying intellectual property is phenomenal, the cast is amazing, I think the look and feel is really terrific.”
Despite the poor critical reception, Zelnick said the film will not affect Take-Two’s finances or have a massive impact on the game franchise as a whole.
“No, the performance of the film wouldn’t have a financial impact on us or on the franchise one way or another,” Zelnick clarified.
However, Zelnick said that Take-Two is generally “really selective” regarding which games will be made into films. The financial impact of licensing a game into a film isn’t small says Zelnick, so they only ever do it if the creators are excited about it.
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Besides Borderlands, the only other video game adaptation Take-Two has planned is aBioShock adaptation with Netflix.
Jeremy Gan was a Games Writer on Dexerto’s Australia team. He is a journalism graduate and expertly covers CS:GO, Valorant, Overwatch, League of Legends, and Dota 2, as well as trending stories in Twitch and Kick streaming.
