""My attitude is, if there are great creators, artists, entertainers that have something to say and they think they can only do it with Borderlands, and they can demonstrate that they can do it, I want to enable that. We don't always succeed, but we've got to keep swinging," he said."
""I love the Beatles, and there's lots of Beatles music, [and] I just absolutely can't listen to some of it. I think it's unlistenable. Should we say, 'You know what? You made an unlistenable song [...], therefore, make no more music.' That's not the attitude, you know, keep making music," he said."
""I promise you, if I directed that movie, it'd be a disaster," he said."
""Nearly everything that could go wrong did go wrong," Feltheimer said."
The 2024 Borderlands movie grossed $33 million and received a cool critical reception. Gearbox remains open to future Borderlands transmedia opportunities if the right team of creators and ideas emerges. The company seeks to enable creators who can demonstrate they can use Borderlands effectively and accepts that not every project will succeed. A comparison to The Beatles was used to argue that uneven creative outputs do not justify stopping production. An admission was made that internal direction would likely have produced a worse film. Lionsgate funded production, with a reported $120 million budget and tens of millions more in marketing. Lionsgate characterized the release as plagued by multiple problems.
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