Borderlands’s big-budget movie adaptation hasn’t exactly landed after premiering in cinemas on August 8th. The movie took in pretty dismal numbers in its first weekend, barely putting a dent in its approximately $115 million USD production budget, and critical impressions were less-than-favourable. The movie is sitting on a Metacritic rating of 27/100 (making it one of the worst-reviewed video game adaptations of all time) and a shocking 0% according to the “Top Critics” on Rotten Tomatoes.
With that in mind, it’s probably little surprise that the movie is already slated for a digital release less than a month later, arriving as soon as August 30th in some regions, according to Hollywood Handle.
The film looks to be arriving on streaming services just slightly later in Australia, with the digital version of the film already to available to pre-order on Prime Video for a September 4th release – at 11.30PM AEST, in case you want to be seated and watching the moment it’s available.
Despite the high-profile cast which includes the likes of Cate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Gina Gershiwn, Kevin Hart, and Jack Black, and a fairly-popular video game IP, the film has been dogged by reports of behind-the-scenes woes in the four years since it was (re)announced with Eli Roth in the director’s chair including last-minute reshoots with a new director, and even before then it’d changed drastically from a mature-rated original concept to the romp that it is now.
All is not lost for the Borderlands franchise though, with the announcement of a new mainline game coming “sooner rather than later,” according to founder of (the now 2K-owned) Gearbox and part-time magician, Randy Pitchford.
The Borderlands film is also getting a physical release later in the year, including a fancy SteelBook edition in case you’re a big enough fan to go for one of those.
