Doom Movie Scriptwriter Dave Callaham Interviewed

rsmith-mac writes "The HomeLAN Federation has posted an interview with Dave Callaham, the scriptwriter for the forthcoming Doom movie. The interview goes over id's influences on the movie and willingness to change the mythology to work with the movie, along with the earlier reported studio shift, and some very light details relating to the characters in the story. If all goes as planned, the Doom movie will start principal production this month in order to hit the theaters in August of 2005."

Comments

Going for greatness!

[hanssprudel]

Let's see here. What have got:

a) Movie based around a video game whose entire plot was "bad things came from hell, kill them."

b) First time scriptwriter.

c) B-Movie director whose best credits are Romeo Must Die and Exit Wounds, and involvement in such classic stinkers as Species and Speed, changed in to direct at last minute.

d) Will star The Rock and a washed out Bond girl in leading parts.

e) Tossed around between studios.

I think we are looking a three or four Academy awards, at least!

What about Bungie's Marathon?

[jjh37997]

Hell..... if there are going to be making movies based on old shoot-em ups why not pick one that acutally has an interesting story and plot?

Re:haven't i seen this already?

[jandrese]

In other words, he's just making whatever movie he wants and slapping the Doom name on it? That is probably for the best actually, as trying to make a movie based on a game with 2 paragraphs worth of plot is not a good idea. Still, I think it will be a good idea to set your expectation bar to "low" for this movie.