Take-Two Boss Reacts To Borderlands Movie’s Bad Reviews: “Give The Film A Chance”
The Borderlands film is in theaters now, and it isn’t getting nice evaluations. Right here at L3B7, our Borderlands film evaluate scored it a 2/10. Some referred to as it a “depressing failure” and “generic.”
Strauss Zelnick, the pinnacle of Borderlands writer Take-Two, stated in an interview that folks ought to “give the movie an opportunity.”
“Lots of people labored actually arduous on it. The underlying mental property is phenomenal, the forged is wonderful; I believe the appear and feel is absolutely terrific,” he instructed IGN. “So let’s have a look at what audiences must say.”
The Borderlands film simply launched in theaters as we speak, August 9, and the movie’s CinemaScore–a ranking of what audiences considered it–is not but obtainable. The movie has a 29 on L3B7 sister website Metacritic and has been rated 7% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Additionally within the interview, Zelnick stated the box-office efficiency of the Borderlands movie has no monetary impression on Take-Two in some way. The corporate that financed the film is Lionsgate, not Take-Two.
Zelnick has a historical past within the filmmaking enterprise, as he was the president and CEO of twentieth Century Fox from 1989-1993 till he left to affix the sport developer Crystal Dynamics.
The Borderlands film stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, and Kevin Hart, and was directed by Eli Roth.
