The trailer for the live action a🥂daptation of Borderlands finally released last wee🧸k, and unfortunately, it doesn’t look very good. It’s evident from the trailer that there are marked differences from the game, which isn’t in itself a problem, but it’s also clear that the things that made Borderlands a fun game 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:don&rsq🔯uo;t quite lend itself to movies, especially the change♕s it’s made to the serie꧟s’ characters.
That doesn’t mean I’m not going to give it a chance – you can’t judge a movie by its trailer, after all. My hopes aren’t high, and it seems li﷽ke the majority of people online feel the same, but I’m interested to see what the movie has done with its source material. What I am extremely hesitant about is that Gearbox founder Randy Pitchford the “first of the Borderlands Cinematic Universe”.
Each Borderlands title has dozens of hours of shooting to break up the grating jokes and characters. Two hours oღf that without any downtime sounds like torture.
Pitchford explains that the movie isn’t an adaptation of Borderlands or its sequel (despite the presence of their heroes), but a new thing that borrows characters and themes but establishes independent storylines. The movie will introduce new characters not seen in the games before, like the Deukalian A🔴tlas, CEO of the Atlas Corporation.
I don’t particularly care that the movie isn&rsquo𒁃;t a straight adaptation, because that w💟ould probably have been boring anyway. What I am horrified at is that Pitchford is explicitly positioning this movie – one that took nearly a decade to produce and is widely predicted to flop – as the beginnings of a larger cinematic universe.
We are in a time where the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a project spanning over two decades that has cost billions of dollars and wa🍸s once said to be too big to fail, is now failing. The entire idea of the cinematic universe is now making people throw their hands up, because it turns media into work that you have to pay to stream and watch. You have to engage with everything, or miss out on crucial information. Viewers, understandably, don’t want to do this anymore.
And yet, Pitchford says this is the first of the Borderlands Cinematic Universe. I can’t help but think of Zack Snyder, who announced a gigantic RPG based on Rebel Moon before the movie even came ou👍t. It’s just generally not a good idea to start planning big media franchises before you even see the reception to 🗹the first instalment, especially when the production of that first thing has already been so contentious.
Are video game adaptations in vogue right now? Sure. There have been a run of decent ones, and now lots of studios are clambering to capitalise on the trend. But it’s never been clearer that no trend is forever, and to actually be able to catch lightning in a bottle and replicate the success of the MCU so late in the game is very unlikely – we&rsq💫uo;ve already seen the heyday of the cinematic universe, and we are now long past it. I don’t think we’re ever going to actually see a Borderlands Cinematic Universe, whatever Gearbox thinks that would look like. I&rsꦛquo;d be surprised if the movie even gets a sequel.
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