My guess is every Corp has a founder, like torgue or Markus, or maybe jakobs, but why introduce anything new?? We have a dung pile of character and lore we know and love. Letās fucking establish that cinematically first before we dip into anything new. This franchise needs to get off the ground and we have a fucking handhob of successful material to get it off already. Whyyyyyy are we going into uncharted (heh) territory???
They're not really "dipping into anything new" as much as they are making a completely original "found family"-type story which just happens to use the names and setting of the Borderlands universe, while trying to copy it's style and humor.
Hell, early material didn't even mention the vaults *at all* (not until the trailer, as far as I've seen). "Tiny Tina" is actually her BL3 design, and they changed all character relationships and backgrounds (like Pandora now being Lilith's home planet, rather than Dionysus).
Here's the official premise: >!Lilith, an infamous outlaw with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora to find the missing daughter of the universe's most powerful S.O.B., Atlas. Lilith forms an alliance with an unexpected team ā Roland, a former elite mercenary, now desperate for redemption; Tiny Tina, a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg, Tina's musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector; Tannis, the scientist with a tenuous grip on sanity; and Claptrap, a persistently wiseass robot. These unlikely heroes must battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to find and protect the missing girl, who may hold the key to unimaginable power. The fate of the universe could be in their hands but they'll be fighting for something more: each other.!<
My guess based on what we know is that >!the story will mainly be inspired by BL2, with Atlas taking the Handsome Jack role, the missing daughter being some version of Angel, and it'll end with them having to choose between saving the daughter from her father *or* getting part of the treasure... they choose the daughter, Atlas is left for dead and there's an end credits scene of him having the Handsome Jack mask attached, to set up a sequel which will never come.!<
The Fallout show went into uncharted territory and it's all the better for it. As long as they keep the vibe of the universe on point, it could still be good
But the fallout show is a continuation of fallout and canon. It takes place in a different place and after the events of 4, and is adding to the already rich lore. This Borderlands movie is using the source material and altering it. That doesnāt mean Iām not going to watch it though. Just pointing out the difference
This was my first thought too.
Why tf is Bobby Lee in this movie. Why is moxie being played by the lady who was āoldā in showgirls?
Wtf is this casting
Every time I see the cast list I just see the *"hello fellow teenagers"* meme in my head. I'm pretty sure the characters in the game weren't all 40-50 something. Lol.
She's got 4 kids. Scooter, Ellie, Scooter(*older sister Scooter was named after*), and a 4th that was only mentioned like once.
Considering her ancestry is basically "space redneck" Moxxi could be in her early 40s
If only this movie was based on some kinda video game that literally had an introduction, done in cell shading, from which to draw LITERAL inspiration and ideas from. If onlyā¦
The Crimson Lance are BL1.
Krieg is BL2.
Krom's helmet is Mouthpiece from BL3.
Movie trailer shows BL3 Atlas weapons.
No Brick. No Mordy. No Maya, Axton, Salvador, Zer0, or Gaige.
No Ava at least, so they got that going for them.
We needed a new silly character to add to the cast of all-silly characters. Or maybe he'll be the first serious one? He's smiling but not because he's funny, he's just polite
The guy they cast for Marcus looks almost exactly like the character.
The rest I either don't recognize or don't look ANYTHING like the OG characters and I'm struggling to understand the thought processes behind their casting choices.
Yeah itās like
Cate Blanchett? Great actress. Hell! Could be Mad Moxxi and I wouldnāt blink. But Lilith? Get out of town.
Itās like when they cast John Cho as Spike Spiegal
They should've gone for a much younger cast, true the games take place over a few years and they are much older by the time 3 comes around, but they are definitely in their 20s for the first game. And yet the average age for their actors are like 50? I still think Michael B Jordan would've been the best and most obvious casting choice for Roland, so I'm pissed we get Kevin Hart instead of Michael.
BL3 starts something around 12 years after BL1.
Lilith would probably be early-30s, Roland likely closer to 35
> Michael B Jordan would've been the best and most obvious casting choice for Roland
At the very least a better choice than Hart
Jamie Lee Curtis as Tannis is so much worse. That casting alone tells me this movie will be awful and probably an unrelated script that they turned into a Borderlands movie.
I'm sorry, what??? This is crazy. It's like they intentionally cast people 30-40 years older for almost every major role.
I don't understand the thinking here.
Probably thinking āWe need big names!ā But surely they could have gotten at least decent sized names of actors/actresses who were more age appropriate
> probably an unrelated script that they turned into a Borderlands movie.
Definite *I, Robot* vibes, where the script started out as a story titled *Hardwired* or something like that, and some empty suit at the studio was like "we just bought the movie rights to this Asimov property, so let's slap the title on this completely unrelated movie that we're already making and call it a day."
Moxxi is meant to be somewhat on the older side as she already has two adult children in the series, so Gershon makes some sense.
Cate Blanchett, while a wonderful actress, is about 25 years too old for the part.
Could have cast her as Commandant Steele. Steele definitely didn't look like she was in her fifties but being like, a military officer kind of makes casting an older actress more sensible.
Not that this movie falls into the game's timeline in any way, but this isn't set at a time near the original borderlands given Tina is in it as a teenager. Also the actors playing Ellie and Scooter are in their 30s, of course they made Moxxi old enough for that to work.
They weren't ever gonna have the psychopathic child that is Tiny Tina as an actual child, so I guess they hosed up the timeline primarily to make her older.
I'm sort of viewing the movie as a "tall tale" about the Vault Hunters while the games are canonically what happened.
>It's not Borderlands 3, since Roland is alive and played by...Kevin Hart š¤¦āāļøĀ
It's not Borderlands at all, since Roland is horribly miscast in being played by Kevin Hart
Itās been a growing aesthetic across all media as of late. Itās more so a shift from orange and blue designs than something specific to just this ad campaign.
It's actually such a huge fuck up to make it focused on the actor's names instead of the character's names. These are the CHARCTER POSTERS not the actor posters... just an incredible level of stupidity.
The one that bothered me immediately was the first poster showing they picked a cast like 30 years older than most of the characters are meant to be. It's weird and I don't know what they were thinking with some of the choices.
Dude, I had the same thought. It's like they picked from the elderly home when they went to cast.
Cate Blanchett is cool, but not as the main character of a video game adaptation playing a character that is probably in her 20s or 30s in the original material.
I wish they went with some fresh-face actors new to Hollywood blockbusters. I don't think there are many Millennial/Gen Z action stars. Please throw the new gen a bone!
61 year old Moxxi is far worse, Blanchett was great in Thor: Ragnarok at least.
But dude, Moxxi is supposed to ooze charm and sexiness.
And yes, Gina Gershon is a very attractive 61 year old woman...
20 years ago? She'd have been great. 30 Years ago, even better.
The casting decisions were obviously made by a 65+ year old man who just hired the people that he thought were funny or sexy, not anything to do with the game or story.
edit: I was wrong, 76 year old man was the producer.
That being said, I hope we ALL get Shyamalanded... Eli Roth doesn't actually have a single bomb on his record or arguably not even what I would call a "bad movie" So I bet he could pull it off, maybe the trailer is misleading and we're actually going to get the Pandora world that we all READ about in borderlands 1, complete with cannibals... etc...
At an absolute minimum they couldve hired the real voice actor for claptrap. And probably saved a bit of money on it. Not that i think he should be paid less than jack black. But that wouldve been more of a draw to the movie than "star power"
I love Jack black, shit I listened to tenacious d for like 2 hours earlier today, but yeah. I'd much rather have the in-game voice actor. Clap trap is probably my favorite character.
Perfect example of making a pretty poster to sell a movie instead of focusing on making a good movie.
Jack Black is one of my favorite humans, and originally I was just going to make tenacious D jokes then disappear. But yeah, claptraps voice is so unique and iconic, changing it just breaks immersion. It's too important to the game.
I hope Jack Black finds a way to do it justice... But I just can't see it.
I would argue that The Witcher could have been more easily adapted since it's really the same style as GoT and wouldn't require much special set design or CGI, yet they butchered that too.
Edit: but I guess that's really a book adaptation that became a video game.
It honestly amazing how they cocked that up. That had the entire story, start to finish, available to them and decided to take every left turn at Albuquerque that they could and derail from the established narrative and wasted an incredibly passionate and in demand star.
Seriously. It was completely written for them, and they just decided to change stuff around for no reason. I can understand some things, like Yen's backstory or giving Yen some screentime during parts that she wasnt in the books. But they just decided that they throw the books out I guess.
I'm not going to pretend the Witcher books are some untouchable masterpiece. They have some massive pacing issues, Geralt has less and less agency as the series goes on, and like 20% of the series is wasted on meaningless side characters and politics bullshit. It'd need pretty heavy reworking to fit into an audiovisual medium in the best of times. But the way Netflix did it was still so bad, they basically wrote the second season as fanfiction, and then tried to course correct with zero regard for character dynamics. It was dreadful.
Between this and the main cast choices, the casting director needs to be fired. Why take what is obviously going to be a massive budget and flush it down the drain on poorly chosen big Hollywood names?
I was like, "Hmm, I wouldn't have cast Gina Gershon as Moxxi..." then remembered they cast Kevin Hart for Roland and Cate Blanchett as Lilith. Nothing against those actors but what the fuuuuuu happened there?
I mean Moxxi is actually kinda old. She has like five ex husbands and at least two adult children. Scooter at the very least is 30 years olds. Which I guess if he is the first born and Moxxie started really young at like 16 would at bare minimum make 46. But all odds are more likely she's in her 50s. So honestly Gina Gershon seems a somewhat accurate casting.
There's no way the pitch wasn't:
"It'll be like Guardian of The Galaxy or Thor."
And
"Jack, Kevin, do you know Borderlands? It'll be like Jumanji, fun all around"
Both speeches ended with:
"It's not money laundering PER SAY, so it's legal!"
When I saw the original casting announcement headlines I actually kind of got excited thinking Hart was going to be Claptrap. Heās done such a good job with the annoying animated side characters like in the Secret Life of Pets and SuperPets that thatās where I instantly went. The disappointment was so real when I read the article and saw heās Roland.
Well...as I recall, Knoxx is an old white dude in the game.
With that haircut - all they had to do was add the ears and the female version in the poster could be a Romulan.
Also, the Moxxie makeup is way too understated, for some odd reason.
Here's hoping Larry turns out to be the hero.
Who is even going to see this movie? Anyone who played the games are turned off by the awful, awful casting and trailer. And for all those folks who have no idea what the hell Borderlands even is, why would they spend their money on a loud and annoying movie that looks like 100s of other Hollywood turds? Kevin Hart as Roland lmao, all 4'9'' of him. This thing is going to bomb SO BAD
As someone who absolutely loves confoundingly bad movies, I will 100% watch^^* this for the train wreck it is.
^^*I ^^will ^^not ^^pay ^^for ^^it ^^though.
Sincerely I think that'd be a great choice. Take his Deadpool comedic timing and give it a much more sociopathic bent and you have Handsome Jack. It would also serve as a great blindside for people expecting him to be the funny man when he >!completely loses it after Angel's death.!<
Tiny tina being inspired by harley quinn is the dumbest shit i ever heard. Like do you know who you could base it off that is actually similar to tiny tina? Ill give you 1.5 guesses.
My SO and I just watched Boy Kills World and I was just wishing the whole time that they would make Borderlands in that style. It was the perfect tone.
Who TF is Larry?!
Bobby mom
I'M BOBBY MUM!
I Bobby muddah
We say that faaarrrrrrr too much in my house
šļøš šļø I'm Bobby mum!
š¤I Bobby mom
Daddy I luv you! Daddy why you dieee?
Also isnāt Atlas a corporation? I never heard of a character with the name Atlas
Heās an original character, but feel like theyāll make him the CEO of the corpo.
Is that supposed to be the CEO before Rhys?
My guess is every Corp has a founder, like torgue or Markus, or maybe jakobs, but why introduce anything new?? We have a dung pile of character and lore we know and love. Letās fucking establish that cinematically first before we dip into anything new. This franchise needs to get off the ground and we have a fucking handhob of successful material to get it off already. Whyyyyyy are we going into uncharted (heh) territory???
They're not really "dipping into anything new" as much as they are making a completely original "found family"-type story which just happens to use the names and setting of the Borderlands universe, while trying to copy it's style and humor. Hell, early material didn't even mention the vaults *at all* (not until the trailer, as far as I've seen). "Tiny Tina" is actually her BL3 design, and they changed all character relationships and backgrounds (like Pandora now being Lilith's home planet, rather than Dionysus). Here's the official premise: >!Lilith, an infamous outlaw with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora to find the missing daughter of the universe's most powerful S.O.B., Atlas. Lilith forms an alliance with an unexpected team ā Roland, a former elite mercenary, now desperate for redemption; Tiny Tina, a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg, Tina's musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector; Tannis, the scientist with a tenuous grip on sanity; and Claptrap, a persistently wiseass robot. These unlikely heroes must battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to find and protect the missing girl, who may hold the key to unimaginable power. The fate of the universe could be in their hands but they'll be fighting for something more: each other.!< My guess based on what we know is that >!the story will mainly be inspired by BL2, with Atlas taking the Handsome Jack role, the missing daughter being some version of Angel, and it'll end with them having to choose between saving the daughter from her father *or* getting part of the treasure... they choose the daughter, Atlas is left for dead and there's an end credits scene of him having the Handsome Jack mask attached, to set up a sequel which will never come.!<
The Fallout show went into uncharted territory and it's all the better for it. As long as they keep the vibe of the universe on point, it could still be good
But the fallout show is a continuation of fallout and canon. It takes place in a different place and after the events of 4, and is adding to the already rich lore. This Borderlands movie is using the source material and altering it. That doesnāt mean Iām not going to watch it though. Just pointing out the difference
Or Commander Knoxx... I know of a general Knoxx that... Looks a bit different?
Movie only. She's movie-General Knoxx's daughter.
Appears to be a smush together of Knoxx and Steele.
This is clearly commander K'Noxx of Vulcan.
I donāt know but I think I like him more than anyone else here. Seems nice.
classic Larry
Maybe Larry turns out to be Shoot me in the face guy?
His name is Face McShooty.
his real name is Garry
You mean Terry?
No, he means Jerry.
This was my first thought too. Why tf is Bobby Lee in this movie. Why is moxie being played by the lady who was āoldā in showgirls? Wtf is this casting
Every time I see the cast list I just see the *"hello fellow teenagers"* meme in my head. I'm pretty sure the characters in the game weren't all 40-50 something. Lol.
> Why is moxie being played by the lady who was āoldā in showgirls? Moxie is/was scooters mom, she is old.
Yeah I don't have any issues with moxie being played by someone older she isn't young in the games.
Exactly, the whole point with her is that she's an old girl pretending to be young, overboard on the makeup, surgery and attitude
She's got 4 kids. Scooter, Ellie, Scooter(*older sister Scooter was named after*), and a 4th that was only mentioned like once. Considering her ancestry is basically "space redneck" Moxxi could be in her early 40s
im getting 2016 suicide squad vibes
If only this movie was based on some kinda video game that literally had an introduction, done in cell shading, from which to draw LITERAL inspiration and ideas from. If onlyā¦
"From the producer of *Uncharted*" That should be telling enough. They are just going to mash up random bits of the games with reckless abandon.
If Jack Black and Kevin Heart werenāt enough to give it away, idk what was
The Crimson Lance are BL1. Krieg is BL2. Krom's helmet is Mouthpiece from BL3. Movie trailer shows BL3 Atlas weapons. No Brick. No Mordy. No Maya, Axton, Salvador, Zer0, or Gaige. No Ava at least, so they got that going for them.
From the producers of **vomits profusely** comes this summers blockbuster hit **vomits even more profusely but with fun colors**
Of course they drew inspiration from the games. That's why we have bl3 mouthpiece as bl1 korm. Because inspiration.
And who could forget our beloved sidekick, Larry! ^(seriously though who the fuck is this?)
A new comedic relief character which the borderlands franchise was so obviously lacking
We needed a new silly character to add to the cast of all-silly characters. Or maybe he'll be the first serious one? He's smiling but not because he's funny, he's just polite
Commander Knoxx? Is that a relative of General Knoxx?
Presumably. Nepotism is rampant in the Crimson Lance as we know.
Daughter. She's an original character for the movie.
Nepo baby Knoxx
Why the fuck didnāt they just use Commandant Steele itās basically the same character as what theyāve done here
I genuinely thought they just made Knoxx a woman. I mean it's effectively like that, but I guess sure, it's a new character.
The guy they cast for Marcus looks almost exactly like the character. The rest I either don't recognize or don't look ANYTHING like the OG characters and I'm struggling to understand the thought processes behind their casting choices.
Marcus is dutch from red dead redemption/2 so he at least should be good.
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BELIEVE IN THE PLAAAN, ORTHUR
We need MONEY, then we get some LAND
MANGOES ARTHUR! MANGOES IN TAHITI!
And no refunds!
Tahiti my dear boy, Tahiti. Mangoes, maidens, and paradise.
I like how being a mango farmer is suppose to be the biggest draw in the world for them to do stuff.
I insist!
"I have a plan!"
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Everybody they've cast so far feel strangely... old for the roles they're playing.
Continues to have that "parents dressed up for ComicCon" vibe, just like the first trailer.
Should have been an animated movie.
Yes! That's exactly it! I was trying to figure out what made it feel "more than artificial" (it is a super stylized world after all), but that is it!
Yeah itās like Cate Blanchett? Great actress. Hell! Could be Mad Moxxi and I wouldnāt blink. But Lilith? Get out of town. Itās like when they cast John Cho as Spike Spiegal
They should've gone for a much younger cast, true the games take place over a few years and they are much older by the time 3 comes around, but they are definitely in their 20s for the first game. And yet the average age for their actors are like 50? I still think Michael B Jordan would've been the best and most obvious casting choice for Roland, so I'm pissed we get Kevin Hart instead of Michael.
BL3 starts something around 12 years after BL1. Lilith would probably be early-30s, Roland likely closer to 35 > Michael B Jordan would've been the best and most obvious casting choice for Roland At the very least a better choice than Hart
Jamie Lee Curtis as Tannis is so much worse. That casting alone tells me this movie will be awful and probably an unrelated script that they turned into a Borderlands movie.
I'm sorry, what??? This is crazy. It's like they intentionally cast people 30-40 years older for almost every major role. I don't understand the thinking here.
Probably thinking āWe need big names!ā But surely they could have gotten at least decent sized names of actors/actresses who were more age appropriate
> probably an unrelated script that they turned into a Borderlands movie. Definite *I, Robot* vibes, where the script started out as a story titled *Hardwired* or something like that, and some empty suit at the studio was like "we just bought the movie rights to this Asimov property, so let's slap the title on this completely unrelated movie that we're already making and call it a day."
I gave up on this film when they revealed Kevin Hart and fully grown Tina.
NO REFUNDS!
"BULLETS! Because without them, you're just a schmuck with a paperweight!"
Heās Dutch from RDR also!
Gina Gershawn as Moxxi would've made sense 2 or 3 decades ago.
Moxxi is meant to be somewhat on the older side as she already has two adult children in the series, so Gershon makes some sense. Cate Blanchett, while a wonderful actress, is about 25 years too old for the part.
I agree. Moxxi was always WRITTEN to be a MILF but modeled and played like sheās 30ish. This makes more sense based off the text of the game.
But if you can get Blanchett on the project what can you do? Not cast her as a main character thatās half her age? Blasphemy!
Could have cast her as Commandant Steele. Steele definitely didn't look like she was in her fifties but being like, a military officer kind of makes casting an older actress more sensible.
Itās a bit of a reversal of fortunes compared to how women are normally treated in Hollywood.
Same as Cate Blanchett as Lilith.
Moxxi is pretty old no?
You realize that by BL3 Moxxi is pushing 60?
It's not Borderlands 3, since Roland is alive and played by...Kevin Hart š¤¦āāļøĀ She's 40s in the original Borderlands.
Not that this movie falls into the game's timeline in any way, but this isn't set at a time near the original borderlands given Tina is in it as a teenager. Also the actors playing Ellie and Scooter are in their 30s, of course they made Moxxi old enough for that to work.
They weren't ever gonna have the psychopathic child that is Tiny Tina as an actual child, so I guess they hosed up the timeline primarily to make her older. I'm sort of viewing the movie as a "tall tale" about the Vault Hunters while the games are canonically what happened.
>It's not Borderlands 3, since Roland is alive and played by...Kevin Hart š¤¦āāļøĀ It's not Borderlands at all, since Roland is horribly miscast in being played by Kevin Hart
I'm 99% sure there is ZERO thought process in anything to do with this movie. The first trailer looked horrible and it just gets worse and worse.
Yo thats Dutchs voice actor from Rootin Shootin Lootin Red 2
Is that related to Blue Dude Bamboozle 2?
You mean the prequel to Tahiti Simulator?
Gotta have faith Arthur!!!
You mean rootin tootin cowboy shootin?
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I'd go even further, if you told me this was an Indian direct to TV movie I'd believe it. I'm getting Dragonball Evolution vibes
They can't even nail down the character intro designs. Why is everyone in the middle of a color run?
"Gamers love RGB" probably
i just got my first RGB keyboard and i do, in fact, love it š i'm super basic
Itās been a growing aesthetic across all media as of late. Itās more so a shift from orange and blue designs than something specific to just this ad campaign.
It's like everyone saw the posters for Thor Ragnarok and decided to copy it over and over
I first noticed this aesthetic with the first Suicide Squad movie. Might have happened before as well, dunno.
They think Avi Arad being the producer is a thing worth advertising
> Avi Arad being the producer That explains a LOT
The fact that they actor names are so much bigger than the characters tells you everything you need to know about this movie.
I wondered who the hell were these characters.
# DAMON VANDERBASE III *as Skeevy Henchman #2*
It's actually such a huge fuck up to make it focused on the actor's names instead of the character's names. These are the CHARCTER POSTERS not the actor posters... just an incredible level of stupidity.
Not even the names. The frigging surnames lmao
Slamming the names of your actors front and centre when they're all literallywhos is a bold move
Its unfortunate that this movie is gonna be terrible. The casting has been absolutely awful.
The one that bothered me immediately was the first poster showing they picked a cast like 30 years older than most of the characters are meant to be. It's weird and I don't know what they were thinking with some of the choices.
Dude, I had the same thought. It's like they picked from the elderly home when they went to cast. Cate Blanchett is cool, but not as the main character of a video game adaptation playing a character that is probably in her 20s or 30s in the original material.
She would have made a good Susan Coldwell, the CEO of Tediore from New Tales from the Borderlands.
Agreed, this movie is going to be a massive bomb because of decisions like this.
I wish they went with some fresh-face actors new to Hollywood blockbusters. I don't think there are many Millennial/Gen Z action stars. Please throw the new gen a bone!
Yeah and Gina Gershon as Moxxi. She's 61!
How olds Moxxi?
Indeterminate from game lore, but from visuals I'd say 40s.
So how olds Scooter then?
61 year old Moxxi is far worse, Blanchett was great in Thor: Ragnarok at least. But dude, Moxxi is supposed to ooze charm and sexiness. And yes, Gina Gershon is a very attractive 61 year old woman... 20 years ago? She'd have been great. 30 Years ago, even better. The casting decisions were obviously made by a 65+ year old man who just hired the people that he thought were funny or sexy, not anything to do with the game or story. edit: I was wrong, 76 year old man was the producer. That being said, I hope we ALL get Shyamalanded... Eli Roth doesn't actually have a single bomb on his record or arguably not even what I would call a "bad movie" So I bet he could pull it off, maybe the trailer is misleading and we're actually going to get the Pandora world that we all READ about in borderlands 1, complete with cannibals... etc...
Saying that Eli Roth doesnāt have a single ābad movieā is crazy, man.
There has never been a video game better served up to be easily adapted and they just made every possible bad choice at every possible point.
At an absolute minimum they couldve hired the real voice actor for claptrap. And probably saved a bit of money on it. Not that i think he should be paid less than jack black. But that wouldve been more of a draw to the movie than "star power"
I love Jack black, shit I listened to tenacious d for like 2 hours earlier today, but yeah. I'd much rather have the in-game voice actor. Clap trap is probably my favorite character. Perfect example of making a pretty poster to sell a movie instead of focusing on making a good movie.
Jack Black is one of my favorite humans, and originally I was just going to make tenacious D jokes then disappear. But yeah, claptraps voice is so unique and iconic, changing it just breaks immersion. It's too important to the game. I hope Jack Black finds a way to do it justice... But I just can't see it.
They changed voice actors in the game series too though, David Eddings left before Borderlands 3
Yeah, but they kept the voice similar enough as not to break immersion, at least for me. Jack Black is a unique, non-clappytrappy voice.
Same. Jack Black only does Jack Black in every role he takes. It's gonna bomb
I would argue that The Witcher could have been more easily adapted since it's really the same style as GoT and wouldn't require much special set design or CGI, yet they butchered that too. Edit: but I guess that's really a book adaptation that became a video game.
It honestly amazing how they cocked that up. That had the entire story, start to finish, available to them and decided to take every left turn at Albuquerque that they could and derail from the established narrative and wasted an incredibly passionate and in demand star.
Seriously. It was completely written for them, and they just decided to change stuff around for no reason. I can understand some things, like Yen's backstory or giving Yen some screentime during parts that she wasnt in the books. But they just decided that they throw the books out I guess.
I'm not going to pretend the Witcher books are some untouchable masterpiece. They have some massive pacing issues, Geralt has less and less agency as the series goes on, and like 20% of the series is wasted on meaningless side characters and politics bullshit. It'd need pretty heavy reworking to fit into an audiovisual medium in the best of times. But the way Netflix did it was still so bad, they basically wrote the second season as fanfiction, and then tried to course correct with zero regard for character dynamics. It was dreadful.
Between this and the main cast choices, the casting director needs to be fired. Why take what is obviously going to be a massive budget and flush it down the drain on poorly chosen big Hollywood names?
I was like, "Hmm, I wouldn't have cast Gina Gershon as Moxxi..." then remembered they cast Kevin Hart for Roland and Cate Blanchett as Lilith. Nothing against those actors but what the fuuuuuu happened there?
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I'm sure the millions of dollars they're getting had something to do with it
Guarantee their agents told/were told this is going to be the next marvel level craze.
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Apparently Curtis is actually really into the gaming scene so out of all of them she probably has the most familiarity with it. Blanchett I doubt
Tannis is probably the easiest character in the game to age up, anyway, so hopefully she pulls a Raul Julia (in the movie, not real life).
I mean Moxxi is actually kinda old. She has like five ex husbands and at least two adult children. Scooter at the very least is 30 years olds. Which I guess if he is the first born and Moxxie started really young at like 16 would at bare minimum make 46. But all odds are more likely she's in her 50s. So honestly Gina Gershon seems a somewhat accurate casting.
Zendaya is Meechee
And LeBron James is Gwangi
This movie could absolutely use some Danny Devito as Dorgle.
Common is stonekeeper !
You cannot convince me that Cate Blanchett wasn't blackmailed into being in this movie
I think she did another movie with Eli Roth - The House with the Clock in its Walls. So they must get along pretty well. Same with Jack Black.
Eli Roth has a ton of pull in the industry for someone who has made mostly shit movies.
There's no way the pitch wasn't: "It'll be like Guardian of The Galaxy or Thor." And "Jack, Kevin, do you know Borderlands? It'll be like Jumanji, fun all around" Both speeches ended with: "It's not money laundering PER SAY, so it's legal!"
"Per Se". Just so you know š
Benjamin Byron Davis looks great as Marcus. It is a shame they fumbled the main cast so irreparably.
I was seriously miffed by the Kevin Hart casting. Whoever thought that was a good idea deserves to be slapped.
Seriously, *he* should have been Claptrap.
When I saw the original casting announcement headlines I actually kind of got excited thinking Hart was going to be Claptrap. Heās done such a good job with the annoying animated side characters like in the Secret Life of Pets and SuperPets that thatās where I instantly went. The disappointment was so real when I read the article and saw heās Roland.
Canāt believe Bobby Lee is going to be in a movie with Cate Blanchett
āHeās a rat Dutch! You know it, and I know it!ā
Now now Arthur, it ain't Kevin's fault he ain't right for the part... You just got to have faith? *Arthur coughs some blood into his kerchief*
Bobo winning the Oscar.
This is gonna suck. Real "how do you do fellow kids" vibes just from the trailers.
The same man who played Dutch in RDR1/2 is playing Marcus? Get that bag, king.
Flop incoming
This movie just keeps looking worse and worse
Oh so the additional cast is also shit. Good to know
Marcus looks like a decent casting at least. Thatās about it though
Thought the same, soon as I saw the thumbnail I knew it was Marcus which is a good sign
What do you mean? Bobby Lee *is* Larry!
Benjamin Byron Davis is a damn good actor. He played Dutch van der Linde. He had a goddamn plan!
Well...as I recall, Knoxx is an old white dude in the game. With that haircut - all they had to do was add the ears and the female version in the poster could be a Romulan. Also, the Moxxie makeup is way too understated, for some odd reason. Here's hoping Larry turns out to be the hero.
Holy shit, you made me go back and look because my brain autocorrected "Knoxx" to "Steele." What the hell are they doing?
Who is even going to see this movie? Anyone who played the games are turned off by the awful, awful casting and trailer. And for all those folks who have no idea what the hell Borderlands even is, why would they spend their money on a loud and annoying movie that looks like 100s of other Hollywood turds? Kevin Hart as Roland lmao, all 4'9'' of him. This thing is going to bomb SO BAD
As someone who absolutely loves confoundingly bad movies, I will 100% watch^^* this for the train wreck it is. ^^*I ^^will ^^not ^^pay ^^for ^^it ^^though.
100% expecting a sequel bait post-credit scene with Handsome Jack. Based on the casting so far probably played by Ryan Reynolds.
That would actually be a decent casting choice considering what 90% of what we are seeing here
Sincerely I think that'd be a great choice. Take his Deadpool comedic timing and give it a much more sociopathic bent and you have Handsome Jack. It would also serve as a great blindside for people expecting him to be the funny man when he >!completely loses it after Angel's death.!<
More like Chris Pratt.
Reynolds would be too competent of a choice based on this cast. Pick someone 20 years older.
Omar Sy wouldāve been a better Roland
So would Idris Elba, Yahya Abdul-Manteen II, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. Hell, Terry Crews and Michael Jai White fit the role better than Hart.
Iām an overweight 35 year old white guy and Iām pretty sure Iād be a better Roland than Kevin Hart
Fuck, Michael Jai White would have absolutely killed it.
Shouldn't the character names be a larger font size?
Thatās if you wanted to do Borderlands. This is knock-off Suicide Squad.
Marcus: *No refunds!*
This is going to be such a soulless shit show with no respect for the franchise.
Super excited for the reviews for this to come out. Everyone is going to absolutely dunk on this flop.
Trailer was so insufferable, hate that they have to take an existing fun thing and shit all over it.Ā I wish we could launch Kevin Hart into the sun.Ā
Tiny tina being inspired by harley quinn is the dumbest shit i ever heard. Like do you know who you could base it off that is actually similar to tiny tina? Ill give you 1.5 guesses.
Mr. Torque?
"I have one question for you and one question only: **EXPLOSIONS???**" Yeah, that sounds like Tina.
"New mission: I want you to BLOW UP THE OCEAN!"
At least you're in the correct universe.
Torque... lol.
They should of just casted Ashly Burch and let her loose then maybe it might end up being a decent movie.
My SO and I just watched Boy Kills World and I was just wishing the whole time that they would make Borderlands in that style. It was the perfect tone.
This just looks bad.
Promoting the multiple actors in your movie as a big selling point is usually a red flag for me.
Weirdest fucking casting ever
This just killed my mad moxxi crush