Please No: Another DOOM Movie On The Way
Universal Studios is supposedly working on another DOOM movie that will completely ignore the first box office bomb starring The Rock.
In 2005, Universal Pictures (finally) released the film adaption of id Software's popular DOOM franchise. The film was directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak and starred Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Karl Urban and Rosamund Pike.
As many DOOM fans already know (and suffered), the movie tanked in the box office, eventually scoring a 19-percent on Rotten Tomatoes and becoming one of TIME's ten worst movies based on games. Overall the general consensus was that DOOM's only positive aspect was the sequence in which the movie imitated the game, placing viewers behind the gun in a first-person perspective. It was awesome and extremely too short in duration.
"The Rock's character goes around shooting everything in sight, the barrel of his gun sticking suggestively up from the bottom of the screen," TIME said. "It's like the audience as a whole is playing DOOM on a really big screen. Fanboys loved it. The rest of the movie might as well not have even existed."
But despite Universal's horrid first attempt to capture our beloved franchise on the big screen, Hollywood – or at least Universal Pictures – isn't giving up quite yet. As time eventually heals all wounds, nearly six years later the studio is reportedly working on another DOOM movie thanks to the success of Paramount's G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra.
According to industry insiders, Universal still owns the film rights to the franchise and plans to reboot even though only one film ever made it to the big screen. That said, the studio is bypassing The Rock's 2005 flick and is currently scouting for a script that will take advantage of the industry's new gimmick: 3D. That's right: Universal wants to film DOOM in 3D. Did you expect anything less?
But because the new DOOM movie is in the early stages of development, no additional info is available as of this writing. Still, as the previous movie was loosely based on the story and atmosphere contained within id Software's DOOM 3, the next film may likely go back to the franchise's Hell-based roots. Then again, it's possible the movie may be tied in with DOOM 4, which may or may not hit retail shelves in 2012.
Just cross your fingers Uwe Boll doesn't get involved.
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The original game on which the first film was based still rates as one of the most scary I've ever played.
If you've only ever seen the film, install that and play it in a dark room with the headphones up loud..you'll see what I mean (evil laugh).
As for the upcoming film. Take away the 3D, the CGI and even the digital film..replace it with 80's style actors and a good script, good acting. I wonder if the audience would be as intrigued today as they were back then. Maybe..maybe not. Alternatively, use a template script, a template cast, template acting and finally, CGI effects galore. Save all the best bits for the advertising hype.
See, even with fast CGI hardware I still find most contemporary American/Hollywood material to be about as inspiring as a bottle of sand in the desert, and not very scary at all. I think Hollywood has generally "lost its spunk". Just name a recent SCI-FI film you'd watch again, especially one you'd go to the cinema specifically to see. I can only think of a few, including 'I am Legend' (Will Smith), and 'The Wolfman' (Lon Chaney Jr). I liked those because to me they were so much more than the sum of their CGI effects, and they had some decent acting as well as a bit of a twist here and there.
Still, if you can make a decent job of this DOOM sequel then I look forward to being wrong.
Do you other guys have high hopes?
Doom movie was "awsome". Especially the 1st person part
That was cool...
A new Doom movie will be ultra cool and don't forget to include more blacks and more kick-ass females to be politically correct. Don't forget the chicks, especially the skinny super models who can fight off and beat to death 400 pound badass guys!
Holywood is a joke!
If they had based it on the original doom story it would have been awesome (but too much like 2001 space odyssey I guess), if they had based it on the final game story it would have rocked too, but they decide to base it on the Doom 3 story and then rework it to their own ends, they messed up big time.
Well TIME was obviously watching a different movie - it was actually Urban's character during the 1st person shooter bit, not The Rock's, and pretty much everybody I know found that sequence to be lame, gratuitous and unintentionally hilarious.
If the movie stuck to its Aliens-esque influences and stayed serious (without some of the over-the-top characterisations) then it would've been a lot better.
Personally though I don't see how a Doom movie can work now - even if you bring back the full-on Hell invasion story, you still have a single space marine running around a military complex shooting at an overwhelming force of opposition.
Aliens will ALWAYS be the best movie for that.
You could possibly put an Event Horizon spin on it and make more of the opening to Doom 3 by having the majority of the movie based around investigation and learning about the bigger picture before Hell (literally) breaks loose.
But that sounds like Aliens too.
How about you do a Quake movie instead? And I mean the original dimension-jumping weirdness, not the Human-Strogg war.
That's it, keep making movies out of games with little in the way of a plot.
I see nothing wrong with this plan.