While video game movies and TV shows have certainly gotten better in the age of Sonic the Hedgehog, The Last of Us and Cyberpunk Edgerunners, there are certainly major missteps still happening. While my favorite disaster in the last few years has been the Paramout+ Halo show, we may soon enough have another contender.

The Borderlands movie is made up of essentially nothing but red flags at this point. It now has a release date, August 9, 2024, but I think we need to take a look back here. A long, long look back. Here is everything that raises serious questions about this movie being in development hell for almost a decade:

At this point, alarm bells are going off all over the place about this project. It’s certainly possible to do a goofy, fun video game movie well, but the excruciatingly long production time, the weird casting, the deviance from the source material and the utter blackout of promotional materials projects little confidence. Then again, I suppose the Uncharted movie was in development hell for a decade and that was a box office hit in the end. But yeah, bit of a longshot for this one, I’d wager.

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