Borderlands 4 returns to franchise roots with more weapons, a sprawling world, and four new Vault Hunters. Gearbox Software produced a live-action "Quit Earth" trailer directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead that emphasizes practical effects and miniatures. Production covered roughly 200–300 days and featured tactile moments, like a miniature couch stunt, that delighted the filmmakers. The project involved collaboration between Gearbox, publisher 2K's marketing team, and creative agency Battery. The trailer includes Easter eggs for dedicated players while clearly communicating Borderlands' eccentric, comedic, and chaotic tone.
Over the last four years, we've done maybe 200 to 300 days of production, and there's been so many high points. But watching a miniature couch go out a miniature apartment window was the most delighted I've felt as a filmmaker in maybe our whole career," Benson tells Inverse. "I wanted to give one of those monologs that Werner Herzog gives about art.
When we were getting this gig, we were directing Daredevil, and [Aaron] was the only one awake during the morning the call came in, and we were so excited, it was infectious," Benson says. "But we couldn't find a meeting time that wasn't during shooting hours, so we'd leave set and get in a passenger van and take the meeting while we drove around the block for 30 minutes in New York.
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