The Take-Two CEO seems unfazed by the poor reception Reviews for the Borderlands movie are in and they are far from glowing. The CEO of Take-Two , the company that owns the IP, wants everyone to “give the film a chance.” In an interview with IGN , Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said: “Let’s give the film a chance.
A lot of people worked really hard on it. The underlying intellectual property is phenomenal, the cast is amazing, I think the look and feel is really terrific. So let’s see what audiences have to say.
” Borderlands is currently sat at just nine per cent on Rotten Tomatoes . The film has been panned for its lacklustre characters and poor use of the world the games created. Rendy Jones wrote : “ Borderlands is what happens when you order Guardians of the Galaxy off Temu.
” Zelnick also added that “no, the performance of the film wouldn’t have a financial impact on us or on the franchise one way or another.” This is apparently because there is little economic impact when licensing a video game IP to a film studio. While there may be little negative associated with a video game film doing badly, positive reception to video game films and series can greatly help boost game sales.
Cyberpunk 2077 saw a resurgence in sales when the Edgerunners anime, set in the same world, came to Netflix. Take-Two purchased Borderlands developer Gearbox Entertainment back in March 2024 after already publishing several of the series’ games and working on the film. In May, Take-Two shut down some of its development studios and laid off hundreds of its workers.
Take-Two owns Rockstar, the studio behind Grand Theft Auto 5 and the upcoming Grand Theft Auto 6 . A former Rockstar employee said : “I don’t think it is going to be wildly different from GTA 5 . I think maybe people might be a little disappointed on the first day.
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