The 2024 Borderlands movie reportedly had a $115 million budget, $30 million worth of marketing and distribution costs, and yet it only managed to fill up its piggy bank with $33 million from theaters worldwide. That's not very good. But, hush, stranger, don't cry – Gearbox co-founder Randy Pitchford says it would have been worse if he made it.
"It would have been way worse if I directed it," specifies Pitchford in a recent conversation about the Borderlands movie with TheGamer at Gamescom. It hadn't previously crossed my mind to wonder what the adaptation – which critic Neil Smith says in our GamesRadar+ Borderlands review is only worth "a slow handclap of derision" – would be like if a guy named Randy directed it instead of horror force Eli Roth.
