Borderlands’ Eli Roth Talks Reshoots: ‘I Directed This, What Happens?’

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Borderlands’ Eli Roth Talks Reshoots: ‘I Directed This, What Happens?’

2024’s Borderlands featured many reshoots, with director Eli Roth recently opening up about how he wasn’t available for them at all.

What did Eli Roth say about Borderlands’ reshoots?

During a recent appearance on The Town podcast with Matthew Belloni, Roth was asked about Borderlands, and confirmed the issues behind the making of the film. Despite that, though, Roth said he’s still friends with the studios and people involved with the film.

“I’m friends with everyone there and anytime you have to sort of talk about what happened, someone’s going to look bad,” said Roth. “And usually it’s just the director.”

Roth went on to say that he did not participate in the reshoots for the film due to his obligations with Thanksgiving. This left Roth just as much in the dark about the movie as moviegoers, the director noted.

“[I] was doing Thanksgiving, and it’s also the kind of thing we’re like, wow, this is the first time I’m going to see a movie sort of being like, ‘OK, I directed this, what happens?'” Roth said. “That was kind of an experience like, never had that before. And I remember being […] am I at the point of my career where I’m going to sit down to watch my own movie that says I wrote and directed it, and I really genuinely don’t know what’s going to happen?”

Borderlands starred Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu, Haley Bennett, Édgar Ramírez, Bobby Lee, Olivier Richters, Janina Gavankar, Gina Gershon, Cheyenne Jackson, Charles Babalola, Benjamin Byron Davis, Steven Boyer, Ryann Redmond, and Penn Jillette.

The film was directed by Roth from a screenplay written by Craig Mazin (who removed his name from the film). It also starred Haley Bennett, Janina Gavankar, Gina Gershon, Cheyenne Jackson, Charles Babalola, Benjamin Byron Davis, Steven Boyer, Ryann Redmond, and Bobby Lee.

Borderlands was produced by Arad Productions’ Avi Arad and Ari Arad, along with Picturestart’s Erik Feig. It was executive produced by Gearbox founder Randy Pitchford and CEO of Take-Two Interactive Strauss Zelnick. Lionsgate’s James Myers and Aaron Edmonds are overseeing the project along with Arad’s Emmy Yu and Picturestart’s Lucy Kitada and Royce Reeves-Darby.