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Borderlands film director blames flop on Zoom and Covid (www.eurogamer.net)

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (6 children)

sure… not the fact that the film was terrible.

it was COVID.

sure bro.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I don't disagree, but the headline is a bit misleading. The director is saying that COVID and Zoom affected his ability to properly plan out the movie.

"I think none of us, none of us anticipated how complicated things were gonna be with Covid. Not just in terms of what we're shooting, but then you have to do pick-up shots or reshoots and you have six people that are all on different sets and every one of those sets is getting shut down because the cities have opened up, and now there's a Covid outbreak and it was just like... we couldn't prep in a room together, I couldn't be with my stunt people, I couldn't do pre-vis, everyone's spread all over the place.

"You can't prep a movie on that scale over Zoom and I think we all thought we could pull it off and we got our asses handed to us a bit."

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't doubt that those additional challenges didn't help anything, but that movie sounded like it had already gone wrong by the time they finished casting.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Kevin heart for the person that is supposed to be the straight man. Literally can not think of a worse casting choice.

Most of the other ones are questionable to but that's the one that really stood out to me as someone who actually enjoyed the first teo games humor when they came out.

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