Eli Roth Says Pandemic Problems Hurt Borderlands

The Borderlands movie came out last year and was largely met with derision, then indifference. What did the movie in? You’ll get a different answer depending on who you ask, but director Eli Roth thinks part of the issue was when it was made. In case you forgot, Borderlands began filming in 2021 during the early days of the covid-19 pandemic. Speaking in a recent episode of The Town podcast, Roth recalled how no one—specifically during that production, or Hollywood overall—”anticipated how complicated things were gonna be with covid.” Back then, things were so chaotic because distancing protocols meant “we couldn’t prep in a room together. I couldn’t be with my stunt people or do pre-vis, everyone’s spread all over the place.” “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,” Roth continued. Making a big-budget movie at that size was a challenge, and a humbling one. (“I think we all thought we cou ... Read full article.