What would you make a core of a Borderlands movie for it not to suck as the recent one? (sh.itjust.works)

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Making it 17+, changing cast and visuals don't count. Let's say it's live action with heavy CGI. What would be here for the main attraction, the plot, the cast of characters?

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[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

The game is already story driven so do a Fallout on it and make a tv show with each episode being a main quest line from the pov of vault hunters and Commandant Steel trying to get to the vault.

Hell, you could do S1 as everything up the the Rackhive, and the S2 opener as defeating the Rackhive and the rest working through to defeating the destroyer.

S3 and S4 can be a mashup of BL2 and the pre sequel

Then do a prequal spinoff show with the struggles of the vault construction by the Eridians from the Siren from BL3 pov.

Then have the DLCs as standalone films.
Buttstallion becomes the star of a g rated kids program about exploring Pandora.

[-] gencha@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Borderlands to me felt a lot more linear than Fallout. Especially this heavy focus on loot in BL makes it so bland. I'm surprised someone thought this would even be a good universe to tell another story in. The comic book esthetic is fun, but always keeps the emergence at bay.

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