Videopelielokuvat olivat silloin joskus pääsääntöisesti erittäin huonoja. Asiantila on sittemmin muuttunut, mutta ei aivan kaikilta osin. Borderlandsin oma elokuva saatiin katsottavaksi elokuussa 2024, ja tappiot olivat mittavat.
Ohjaaja Eli Roth onkin sitä mieltä, että epäonnistumisesta on syyttäminen koronaviruksen jylläystä. Hän ilmoitti tiedon The Town -podcastissa.
Gamereactorin arvion Borderlandsin omasta elokuvasta pääsee lukemaan täällä.
"I would work with Lionsgate again, I just wouldn't work under those circumstances and 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."