Eli Roth on ‘Borderlands’ Flop: ‘We Got Our Asses Handed to Us’

Eli Roth Says Pandemic Problems Hurt Borderlands

There's a lot of things that went wrong with the Borderlands movie, and Eli Roth counts covid's impact on Hollywood among them.

Eli Roth on ‘Borderlands’ Flop: ‘We Got Our Asses Handed to Us’

"I thought, 'This isn’t really me and this isn’t what I want to do going forward,'" Roth said of how the video game adaptation impacted his career choices.

Borderlands’ Eli Roth Did Not Hold Back About The Box Office Response To His Movie: ‘That Was An Experience’

Eli Roth calls Borderlands a tough lesson, admitting “we got our asses handed to us” after its box office and production struggles.

Eli Roth Blames COVID For Borderlands Movie's Box-Office Struggles

"You can't prep a movie on that scale over Zoom."

What Went Wrong With BORDERLANDS? Director Eli Roth Opens Up About the Misfire — GeekTyrant

Borderlands was a complete mess of a film. It should’ve been great as it was an adaptation of a beloved, chaotic video game series with a $100+ million budget and an all-star cast. But, leave it to Eli Roth to screw it up and make a barely-watchable dud that limped to just $33 million at the box office. Eli Roth has now opened up about what he thinks went wrong with the movie. He recently joined Matthew Belloni on The Town podcast, where he got …

'Borderlands' Director Blames Film’s Failure On Covid And Zoom

Following last year’s disastrous Borderlands movie, which was both a critical and commercial flop, the film’s director, Eli Roth, has come forward to share his thoughts on the debacle, alluding that the circumstances surrounding its development, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent reliance on video conference apps like Zoom, were major factors leading to the film’s eventual failure. Appearing on the podcast The Town, Roth admitted t…