Instead, so many thingswent wrong with 2024’sBorderlands, making people question if the IP is past its best.

Instead, its release only hurt the franchise, withBorderlands 4also suffering from the movie’s unfortunate timing.

Therefore, the low expectations could actually be a good thing.

Borderlands 2024 Movie Poster

Custom image of Roland (Kevin Hart) surrounded by megaphones with Lilith (Cate Blanchett), Krieg (Florian Munteanu), and Tannis (Jamie Lee Curtis) in the background in the Borderlands movie

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Cate Blanchett as Lillih on a Ladder in Borderlands 2024

Based on the video game franchise, Borderlands is a sci-fi action-comedy film that follows Cate Blanchett as Lilith, a treasure hunter who returns to her home planet, Pandora, to find a tycoon’s missing daughter. Together with a group of unlikely allies, such as a soldier, a teenaged demolitions expert, a wise-cracking robot, and an eccentric scientist, the group will work together to save the girl - all while learning to deal with each other’s unyielding quirks.

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