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Doom Movie in Production For Aug 2005 Release
Lord Prox writes "Doom:
The motion picture is now in production from
Universal Pictures for a release date of August 5, 2005. According to
IMDB the cast includes The Rock, Rosamund Pike, Razaaq Adoti, Ben Daniels, and Karl Urban. The plot
and
setting is right from the game."
Who's going to play the big floating eye?
Doom Movie Scriptwriter Dave Callaham Interviewed
I heard that an issue was the amount of goriness. Remember the soldiers hanging from meathooks ? Apparently the director wants to show that!
How do you make a movie without vertical clipping? I think it's going to be a real challenge to explain to the audience why a rocket fired 300 feet below someone can hit them. Should make for interesting cinematography though.
If guns kill people, then CmdrTaco's keyboard misspells words.
The IMDB site looks suspect - it has been tricked before ..
'GNAA' style movies have appeared there, and all the article links point to the one spot.
I would love to see a DOOM movie - I've only been waiting about 12 years now, but one day I hope it will come out...
You can't expect to wield supreme executive power, just because some watery tart threw a sword at you
No plot and Mars.
You feel a strange mental acuity.
Hooray! Because we all know that films based on video games are always great
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
...cuz you can't have both, Mr. The Rock.
ABSURDITY, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Well, I guess what plot there was there is thin enough for a Hollywood production!
Bang! Boom! Bang! Argghhh! Bang! Ouch! Bang! Boom! Bang!
Roll credits...
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I want the post of Gaffer for that movie!
I just hope the marine in the movie gets to use his gun and flashlight at the same time.
Maybe we should ping the director and make sure he puts the duct tape mod into the movie.
I would Love to say that I am looking forward to this, however, I am envisioning really stupid 3d graphics. But, I am interested in this one. Although I think it may ruin the game. The dungeons and dragons movie didn't really fair well.
..."Sky Captain" for no reason.
So, 90% of the movie will be pitch black?
Now put here your jokes about the duct tape mod.
Singularity: a belief in the "God" idea with the "demiurge" relation inverted.
They have a lot of work to do in order to recreate the atmosphere created in DOOM3. That game made me tense in a way no movie ever has. The only comparable feeling would be while playing System Shock 2.
The poor man's Vin Diesel.
He'll probably have to type IDKFA every thirty seconds just to make it through the movie.
I believe the rock will not only do all his own stunts, but he will also be doing all his own camera work too.
You can't beat those first-person movies.
Unfortunately, I am not Wil Wheaton
In other words, there is no plot, and the movie is set in several hallways and rooms that look identical to the one in the last scene.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
It was my awesome performances that inspired the creative genius behind this movie..
... with any luck, it'll be every bit as good as the comic book.
Al Qaeda has ninjas!
To let the general public get the full Doom experience, they should push the release date back like 5 or 6 times and eventually put it out in 2009.
The code to destroy the base is IDKFA.
1) John Carmack will have a cameo in it somewhere. He'll probably briefly appear as a nerdy tech/scientist seen on a video monitor.
2) The Rock will say in the movie: "Let's give 'em HELL!"
3) It will be rated PG-13.
A story so short there is no need to read the article.
Anyone can submit info to the The Internet Movie Database, and it's rather notorious for posting incorrect information about movies which are still far from release.
I'm not saying that the casting news at the imdb definitely isn't true, I'm just saying to take it with a grain of salt.
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These aren't the droids you're looking for.
1. Star-studded cast - check
2. Fantastic storyline - check
3. Less than a year from production to release - check
Wow - how will this not be a hit?
This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. - Dorothy Parker
Watch as The Rock runs around with a little flash-light and destroys the evil monsters right before your eyes! Check out the reviews!
"Stunning, Beautiful, two palms up!"
- siegfried and roy
The plot and setting is right from the game.
Ummm... which one? Doom 1, 2 (and 2's other versions) were all placed in large environments. Doom 3 (so far) is placed in very dark, almost catacomb areas. Drasticly different...
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
Don't forget to bring a flashlight.
-Colin
Man, I hope it's as good as the comic book.
Before final fantasy or resident evil, there was doom. Oh wait, what about Wolfestein. Oh wait.... PONG the movie, that's what i want to see. (Actually not a bad idea for a short film)
...when is Duke Nukem forever "THE MOVIE", going into production? Yeah yeah, i know about:
""...[Duke Nukem Producer] Kasanoff is currently developing GT Interactive's hot shoot'em-up game Duke Nukem as a 2002 feature film, pitting the shades-wearing, beer-drinking, woman-ogling hero against alien invaders.'Duke is a blast', says Kasanoff...'He's just a great character. It's the opportunity to do a huge action move that's really funny. You get the most politically incorrect action hero in the world, yet he's a true patriot and truly loves and respects women. That's a fascinating dichotomy'."And this.
Will movie theaters need to upgrade to the latest video equipment to be able to run this film?
The plot and setting is right from the game.
Oh come on, do you think they can really condense the intricate storyline, complex characterizations, and nuanced dialogue of Doom into a 2 hour movie? I think not.
Good god, people, Doom had a bad storyline EVEN BY VIDEOGAME STANDARDS. Who actually thinks it will make a good movie? If you answer "me", then please explain it to me.
The funny thing is most slashdot stories about something the MPAA has done are followed by comments about "who cares, Hollywood movies are so bad why would you want to watch them anyway?". You do realize that you can't honestly be in both camps, you know? You can't criticize the mindless drivel that Hollywood puts out and then say in the next breath that you're eagerly awaiting Doom.
Alright, I MAY see it, but that's only because Rosamund Pike is sexy as hell. When you're the sexiest woman in a movie that also stars Halle Berry, that's something special. But the movie itself isn't something that a sentient being should look forward to.
John Ashcroft
This is gonna suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck......
"Well, I guess what plot there was there is thin enough for a Hollywood production!"
Just like Mortal Kombat.
But if its for real and it releases, then it will probably be on video while the spilled soda is still sticky on the theater floor. In that case, I might watch it at a friends house, if he feels up for downloading it.
Dogma - "let's just say we'd like to avoid any empirical entanglements."
If this is bsaed on the latest edition of Doom, it should take roughly 3 - hrs make to tape.
All you need is a fake weapon, absolutely no lights (aka a dark room, which I am sure exists somewhere), and some "grunt" noises from a keyboard.
It is amazing what we can do with a computer.
Is this a Troll? No, seriously, Daikatana? Uh?
...is that the plot is about running backwards through dark hallways shooting zombies, right?
Do these Unholywood producers really take us as morons? And for that matter, do they ever learnt that you cannot possibly squeeze 10-20 hours of interactive entertainment into 2 hours of reactive movie that you can't even choose the ending without totally ruining the franchise, especially made by a cast of script writers and actors who don't have a clue of the game elements? Thanks to yet another stupid, short sighted, get rich quick money grabbing scheme, they just destroy yet another game franchise and potential source of self-sustaining revenue stream! If these people actually have a clue of what they are doing, they would have done a TV series instead, just like the Japanese producers do. The Hollywusses should have learnt something from Pokemon, which started out as a video game, but ended up a high rating TV series.
Does it come with punkbuster?
In an effort to increase the level of suspense the entire picture will be shot with a single hand held flashlight for lighting?
I'm still waiting for Pong the movie.
Anyone can submit info to the The Internet Movie Database, and it's rather notorious for posting incorrect information about movies which are still far from release.
Yeah right. Next thing you'll be telling me is Emacs: The Movie is a hoax, too.
Call me a pessimist, but I can't see modern Hollywood producing such a violent and gory film. This will probably be another sci-fi/horror flick turned PG-13 (which you can't really call Doom). No studio in it's right mind is going to release a film with people gutted and hanging on hooks. Soccer Moms of the world would have them for lunch.
Film it in first person just like the freaking game!!!!!! Then you just need some nebbish running around (only have to pay them $30k) with a camera mounted on their chest so you can see their weapon fire, chainsaw bits, etc...
Save the stars for more exciting bits. I suggest Winona Ryder for the Floating Eye, James Wood for the multiple soldiers and Joan Rivers for the Spikey Demons... For goat boy? Rob Schnieder...
Just my comments...
Will the movie characters strafe jumping away from the monsters?
from the original game...
You're a marine, one of Earth's toughest, hardened in combat and trained for action. Three years ago you assaulted a superior officer for ordering his soldiers to fire upon civilians. He and his body cast were shipped to Pearl Harbour, while you were transferred to Mars, home of the Union Aerospace Corporation.
The UAC is a multi-planetary conglomerate with radioactive waste facilities on Mars and its two moons, Phobos and Deimos. With no action for fifty million miles, your day consisted of suckin' dust and watchin' restricted flicks in the rec room.
For the last four years the military, UAC's biggest supplier, has used the remote facilities on Phobos and Deimos to conduct various secret projects, including research on inter-dimensional space travel. So far they have been able to open Gateways between Phobos and Deimos, throwing a few gadgets into one and watching them come out the other.
Recently, however, the Gateways have grown dangerously unstable. Military "volunteers" entering them have disappeared or been stricken with a strange form of insanity -- babbling vulgarities, bludgeoning anything that breathes, and finally suffering an untimely death of full-body explosion. Matching heads with torsos to send home to the folks became a full-time job. Latest military reports state that the research is suffering a small set-back, but everything is under control.
A few hours ago, Mars received a garbled message from Phobos. "We require immediate military support. Some fraggin' evil is coming out of the Gateways! Computer systems have gone berserk!" The rest was incoherent. Soon afterwards, Deimos simply vanished from the sky. Since then, attempts to establish contact with either moon have been unsuccessful.
You and your buddies, the only combat troop for fifty million miles were sent up pronto to Phobos. You were ordered to secure the perimeter of the base while the rest of the team went inside. For several hours, your radio picked up the sounds of combat: guns firing, men yelling orders, screams, bones cracking, then finally, silence. Seems your buddies are dead.
It's Up To You
Things aren't looking too good. You'll never navigate off the planet on your own. Plus, all the heavy weapons have been taken by the assault team leaving you with only a pistol. If only you could get your hands around a plasma rifle or even a shotgun you could take a few down on your way out. Whatever killed your buddies deserves a couple of pellets in the forehead. Securing your helmet, you exit the landing pod. Hopefully you can find more substantial firepower somewhere within the station.
As you walk through the main entrance of the base, you hear animal-like growls echoing throughout the distant corridors. They know you're here. There's no turning back now.
Thanks to file sharing, I purchase more CDs
Thanks to the RIAA, I buy them used...
This movie is going to suck. But I still can't wait for some reason!
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The really sad thing here is that the Doom movie is likely to be more true to the original than Peter Jackson's LotR trilogy was.
"According to IMDB the cast includes The Rock"
Sounds like this movie is DooMed already!
(sorry, couldn't resist it)
Check out the Rock's IMDB page. He's been cast as Johnny Bravo in a future Johnny Bravo movie?
Fuck doom, I wanna see that. "Conceited musclebound dumbass" is the role he was born to play. I mean that in a good way, I do find the guy entertaining to watch, especially the shoot WWE stuff I've seen (when he's cast as a heel - a conceited musclebound dumbass).
He's also cast in a movie called "Instant Karma", which I assume is about astroturfing for the iPod on slashdot. Compelling stuff!
The Doom movie will suck and anyone with half a brain should realize that by now. Hardly worth discussing.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
House of the dead.
...that this movie will be disliked. Why? Well, it's possible that the movie itelf will suck, but I personally doubt it. Instead, I think it comes from a perspective shift between playing a game and essentially watching a movie about playing a game.
I think I am one of the only people on the planet who likes the original Mortal Kombat movie. Granted, the movie itself is not mind-blowing or original; but instead it accurately captures the mood and feel of the original games. Combine that with some interesting action, and you have a movie that I enjoy watching from time to time partly because of all the memories it brings back.
However, partly why I enjoy MK so much is that it didn't try to be anything different than the game. It kept the same characters, same mechanics, even the same settings for many of the fights. Watching the movie feels like watching someone play a live-action version of the game. From what I've seen of this D3 movie, they are stuck in a hard spot. One one hand, they could add a whole story and disrupt the movie/game tie which would cause everyone who played the game to dislike the movie. On the other hand, they could essentially do a live action version of portions of the game, which would cause everyone who hadn't played the game to feel let down by the movie. From what I've seen, this difficulty in setting the correct perspective is why so many gaming movies seem to fail.
However, I love the game Doom 3, so here's to hoping the movie is just as good...
WTF? I don't recall any women in Doom.
Will the frame rate be more than 24?
Forgive me for giving out the climax, but it is so moving that it must be shared:
Brad: *ping*
Bob: *pong*
Brad: *ping*
Bob: -panting- *pong*
Brad: *PING*
--- silence ---
Bob: Brad? Brad? BRRAAAAAAD!!! NOOOOO!
Doom, Doom II or Doom 3?
Wait, never mind.
It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
not going to see it. Worst actor ever
so...its basically two hours of the rock? cause i cant really remember any other living people...
Why does the movie have the feeling that it will bomb worse then Gigli?
I think John Romero can spell his own name.
I became a little alarmed when I saw the quote "Can you smell what the hellspawn are cookin!"
movies based on computer games always turn out to be masterpieces.
Street Fighter was good. No, hear me out. Just watch it like a comedy instead of an actual movie and it was really really funny.
My friends and I laughed the entire way through the movie and almost got kicked out for being too disruptive. For some reason, we were ROFLOAO at the part where big bags of green bubbling chemical with huge labels that says "mutagen" was seen on the screen one time too many.
It might have something to do with what we smoke an hour earlier....
Quote:
Shooting should start in October 2004
With a shotgun?
Who's going to play Barney the dinosaur? If this movie doesn't have a Barney patch, it's just not worth watching.
These people looked deep into my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined.
Someone forgot about this gem of a movie based on a video game...http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108255/
This has been reported all over the place, including interviews with John Carmak himself. It is still slightly vaporware, but is definately not a hoax.
Who actually thinks it will make a good movie? If you answer "me", then please explain it to me.
me
* WARNING - SPOILER! *
According to a leaked copy of the script, it appears that in the final scene, just before stepping into the final room full of monsters, The Rock will step up to a computer terminal and type in "idkfa".
Then after picking up all the weapons and ammo that have inexplicably just materialized in front of him, he'll type in "iddqd" followed by "idspispopd".
Then apparently he'll just walk right through the wall and blow the entire room away without taking a single hit!
START:
[Demon jumps out from behind crates]
Sarge: "HOLY SHIT!"
[Demon attacks Sarge]
[Sarge puts down flashlight, picks up machinegun]
[Sarge shoots wildly at Demon]
GOTO START
And then he'll die anyway.
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
Chicks got hung on a meathook back in Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and that guy was actually after a PG-13 rating.
That guy (Tobe Hooper) must have been a very forward thinking individual, because the PG-13 rating wouldn't exist for another 10 years.
I actually thought he was pretty good in Welcome To the Jungle, or whatever the US release was called (The rundown? chasedown..?)
I have no sig yet I must scream.
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Doom already looks a lot like an Alien movie. Hopefully they'll do more than make another "get from point A to point B while killing monsters" movie.
So do I have to upgrade my TV set too, when the DVD version comes out?
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From a 40' screen in 16:9! I can't wait. oh, and don't worry about the Rock - he will probably just play Imp 42.
You know, next they could make a movie out of Breakout
"Suddenly, without warning, there's a brilliant flash straight ahead. You check the radar screen. Nothing. Pretty soon there's another flash, and another. Next thing you know the flashes have turned into one gigantic force field of some kind and it's dead ahead. You check the radar screen again, still nothing."
Let's face it, the alien setting in DOOM was probably a cop-out to get rid of the bad taste around killing people and glorifying WWII.
Perhaps they could start selling the Doom 3 cargo pants with gigantic rocket-launcher-sized pockets!
So will it be so dark like the game that you won't be able to see anything?
Seriously, I think its pretty wrong that in DoomIII the most brightly lit area was when you go to hell. At least in hell you could see whats going on, the rest of the game was just fumbling around hoping you're going the right direction.
It was a disappointment.
For a game! Every great action movie needs a tie-in game.
---- Den ene knappen er powerknapp, den andre er Bender voice knapp "Bite My Shiny Metal Ass"
... because it ISN'T directed by either one of the VG->Movie directors who ALWAYS screw it up
Best FPS gaming site on the net... ok, well maybe not the best
You're saying that it's gonna be, with luck, really, really bad?
We know it's not really John Romero because he, Stephen King, and BSD are all dead. I read it on Slashdot.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
pwned by Romero himself...
Ouch.
The plot and setting is right from the game.
This should equate to:
Plot: None
Setting: Recycle Alien movie setting
I mod down so you can mod up. Your welcome.
ooh THE ROCK types IDKFA!!!
... ...
HA HA HA, yeah, it was posted 4832984 times before this post and each are marked funny. IT'S FUNNY, PEOPLE.
We can't hear this one enough, can we?!
"Hey, The Rock!"
"IDKFA?!"
"Yes."
*insert joke about flashlight*
IDKFA!!! HA HA HA.
We have secretly replaced these Slashdot mods' sense of humor with a rusty nail. Let's see if they notice!!
I knew I had heard this somewhere: Arnold S. was originally being considered as the lead for a Doom movie. Too bad.... I think he would have been a better marine-like figure over Rock.
One source that talks about Arnie
Let's hope the character script is taken directly from the game too so that I don't have to hear "The Rock" say anything at all.
-- I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist. It's not my fault that life sucks so much. --
Too long have you coveted my BFG9000. Too long have you haunted its shiny green kaboominess.
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
Mines the one on the engery production, i love the line "producing endless enrgery with only two by products, steam, whcih we vent though pipes, vents, outs lents, floors and anythign else we can and
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... two such roles in a row could be hard on one's career. How'd you like to be type-cast as an evil-eye.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
I think the burning question is whether you'll be allowed to download the first 20 minutes off P2P, before a little message pops up saying "Get the other 40 minutes, for only $4.99 - plus, a free hint booklet!"
No. He commited suicide because of persistent rumors about him being Corey's dad.
The ROCK's cousin, the BLOCK is reportedly appearing in this short scene in chapter 3, after discovering a secret level.
Nope. He passed away. December 1982 if memory serves.
and they made it with actors, why?
DON'T PANIC
That sounds like a direct to video concept If I've ever heard one.
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
The Rock.
But hey you can't complain, because you will be getting THREE MOVIES WORTH! Not just one, but THREE!
THREE I SAY! Quantity over quality!
-Derek
Treat me like a marketing stat, and I'll treat your movie like a series of ones and zeros
Did anyone see John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars. That for me captured the doom feel perfectly - from the look of the infected, to the deserted colonies on Mars complete with strung up bodies - all it lacked was a couple of the supernatural beasts, and that could have been a great Doom movie!
Sunday you're Thinking Different, Monday you're a huge tool, paying too much and waiting to think like everyone else.
Finally... The Rock has come back to Mars!!!
I can hardly wait
- The special effects will kick ass, but the storyline won't make sense
- Most of the movie will be darkness
- I'll run out of popcorn every 5 minutes and be required to visit special websites to obtain more
- I can have popcorn, or a soda, but not both
- The existing projectors won't be able to run the film at 24.9fps
- Only 4 people can watch it a time
On the bright side, it'll be on Usenet 3 days before it hits theatres.
Thanks for coming, I'll be here all week
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I am sooo looking forward to seeing Ben Stein as the psycologist take on the wacko (forgot his name) IRL!!!
I think the classic examples is from Reservoir Dogs - when he cuts the ear off... you never see anything
That's because Tarantino couldn't get it to look real enough. If you get the DVD, there's a couple of outtakes in which they tried to film it from various angles. The prosthetic ear didn't fit quite right.
Your broader point is a good one, though: less is often more.
One man's -1 Flamebait is another man's +5 Funny.
"Vi-The Movie" wil be better.
Imagine, the same plot as Pi, but instead of plumbing the significance of that number, the protagonist finds deeper meaning in the vagaries of vi.
Just hope the movie doesn't use quickwaves and quickloads.
printf("Goodbye cruel world!\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b");
Imagine, the same plot as Pi, but instead of plumbing the significance of that number, the protagonist finds deeper meaning in the vagaries of vi.
Ah, so it's a tragedy.
But keep in mind in 1995 when it came out I was only 13 years old. Mortal Kombat was a good movie for the age demographic it catered to, young people who grew up playing Mortal Kombat. Even when I watched Mortal Kombat recently on tv when it aired I liked it, but now that I am older the fight scenes seem very fake.
You know, as much as I dislike some of the crap the **AA's are doing, in this case I'd cheer for the MPAA if a studio would step up to bat and say "Fuck all the soccer moms. We're putting out PLENTY of warning that this film will be bloody, gory, and violent. The movie will be rated R. If a soccer mom DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THIS RATING, she should look it up. We are not responsible for raising your children. You are. If you let them come see this movie and they have nightmares, it is YOUR FUCKING FAULT. Not ours. You have been warned. Thank you and go see DOOM!"
If it was the biggest steaming pile of shit as a movie, I'd still spend the money to see it just because someone took a stand and said "WE are not raising/responsible for your children, you are."
Now, be honest, wouldn't pretty much everyone here love to hear someone (even the MPAA) take a stand and say that shit to the world at large?
Dream as if you'll live forever.
Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
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Is probably the Mario Brothers movie with John Leguizamo.
I'd have much preferred it if Bruce Campbell was playing the lead. "The Rock" sucks "The Ass", and this movie will, too. I loved Doom, but I'm prepared to stubbornly and insanely deny the existence of this movie if/when I find that it sucks.
Either that, or I'm deliberately lowering my expectations so that this fucking great kick-ass movie will really blow me away. God dammit.. The Rock.. What a fag.
The comic even has a scene with Ash, umm, "John". whoever the main character is, standing in the middle of a room filled with dead zombies all around him, smoking gun still in hand, saying "Groovy." Dammit, man. Just, dammit.
Where is Bruce when you need him?
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After finding a secret level, the space marine finds himself in a bizarre cubist Nazi-era headquarters. Who will he encounter? Michael Moore, Jim Carrey, Rosie O'Donnell, and Former Iraqi Minister of Information, Baghdad Bob come to mind...
Movie starts and The Rock says: "Finally, The Rock has come back to Mars!!"
He kicks serious monster butt during 1h30.
Movie finishes with him saying: "If you smelllllllelelelelelelelelel! what The Rock is cooking" and he raises is right eyebrow.
During the movie, you also ear some voice overs by Jim Ross and Jerry "The King" Lawlor.
Got MILF? It does a body good!
one of the stock characters sums up the genre and plot: "It's your basic unidentified enemy, heavy casualty situation."
that's about it. it begins well, with stock characters solving the mystery of the unknown nasty, slimy creatures that have something to do with the portal. there's a setup for a love interest, one intra-team conflict, and a bunch of similar dreck.
then it goes sideways. on the other side of the portal is/was a civilization of human-like things who had extra chromosomes or something, and contact caused us to deteriorate into a primal form. it's horrible even to remember. 'the relic' was a better movie than this could ever be.
Everyone asks about who will be casted as the big boss monsters, but has anyone wondered about the most important character to cast? That's Daisy, the pet rabbit.
Wonder if John Romero might appear for a cameo with his head on the stick inside the final boss's brain...
it's still my favorite ghost movie!
"No one will be able to hear you... at night... in the dark..."
Classic!
"Creativity is allowing ones self to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep" - Scott Adams
If the Rock is shooting while holding a fashlight I'll be pissed. If he's using ducttape then they better bill the mod site in the credits.
~~ Behold the flying cow with a rail gun! ~~
It seems night Flyer is the only one that seems to remember the read-me's and intermissions that gave alittle story to the maddness (Sorry if a missed anyones post recalling the games original plot). If anyone read the novels written by Dafydd ab Hugh, they'd remember that this author read the read-me's aswell. Hugh added to it ofcourse, as any artist would, but the storyline was mostly the same. According to Hugh, the hero (Who really didn't have a name in the game) was named Flynn Taggart, who did get in trouble for striking a superior officer and had to sit and wait while he listened to his buddies scream and die over the radio. His Best friend Arlene survives, and there is a slight love interest, but it doesn't get into it to much. If any movie should be made, I think the script should come from the Novel by Hugh. It brought a simple storyline to a more complex plot and yet kept the original idea behind Doom.
Indoctrinate : to instruct especially in fundamentals or rudiments Educate : to develop mentally, morally, or aestheti
I want to see if they might be interested in getting bit parts for some of the people {including me, of course} who were involved with the development of third party utilities. Would that be cool or what?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEU
If anyone's got the address can you post it here or e-mail me @hope.edu? Thanks!
Gah, not The Rock. They should cast Mr. T - "I pity the imp, crazy fool"
Marty Feldman died of Shell fish poisoning in Mexico city in 1982
And to be more true to the original, it will be filmed at 150 fps instead of the usual 32 fps. (really detailed scenes will have lower frame rates)
Seriously, I'd like to see a movie trilogy of the Marathon universe. Marathon's story was the best video game story ever, certainly of the FPS genre (IMO at least). Halo, an extension of that universe, wasn't as good or creative, but Marathon 1/2/3 was untouchable.
The plot and setting is right from the game
Doom had a plot?
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
This movie sounds absolutely terrible to me. A movie based on an almost plotless action game appears to be...doomed.
Did anyone else notice that Rosamund Pike appears to be filming Pride and Prejudice and Doom simultaneously? Now that's a true test for an actress. I hope she doesn't get confused between her two roles...
The plot and setting is right from the game.
...but the game didn't really HAVE a plot. It boils down to guy-with-gun-kills-a-bunch-of-evil-things. I have a feeling this should rank way down there with Alien Vs. Predator.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
The plot and setting is right from the game.
No, it's not. First off, it doesn't even take place on Mars. It takes place on an "unnamed alien planet." Second, the story is about a marine who meets up with his scientist sister at the base. They band together and fight an "alien menace." It's never explicitly stated that these are hell demons. At most, it's suggested once.
To sum up, the story barely borrows from Doom 3 at all. A brother and sister team up against unknown alien forces at a scientific base (blech). Even worse, I should point out that the film is being directed by a guy who has turned out disposable turds in the past.
This is not at all the super-intense, fucking-evil hell-spawned demons taking-over sci-fi movie that Doom deserves to be. It's a shitty summer popcorn flick being tossed out that's barely based on the source material (and contrary to conventional wisdom, Doom has plenty of storyline to fill an entire sci-fi horror film).
Just to confirm this. Sorry, folks--this is the real deal. The film doesn't even take place on Mars ("unnamed alien planet"), and there's no kick-ass marine taking names--it's just some doofus and his scientist sister. They're aiming for another "Resident Evil." Run from CGI monsters!
Well, I'm not sooo surprised ... more 'what are we (rather, THEY) going to do about it?' (THEIR kinda infamous story screening process)
btw, I've pasted my coverage of the story below - and I'd like to get opinions if I did a to sloppy job, or not. (IMHO, I didn't - but that's me :)).
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Doom Movie Enters Production Phase
No more speculating - it's final; Universal Pictures has announced[A goat needed to be scarified to FLASH-lord, to enter] that it has gone into production. So fellow Doom *Geeks*, mark August 5, 2005 in your calendars as "Call in sick"-day :). Read below for a re-production of
the FLASH-(text)-content [for all ye' voices who would have cried out loud].
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TITLE: DOOM
IN THEATERS: August 5, 2004
FILM INFORMATION:
Cast:
Directed By: Enda McCallion
Writer: Dave Callaham
Producers: Lorenzo di Bonaventura, John Wells
SYNOPSIS:
When the home-computer game "Doom" was first launched in 1993, no one could have foreseen the legion of fans it would create and the mania surrounding its every new permutation. "Doom" and its successive installments have transfixed gamers worldwide for over a decade and have sold millions of copies (while chalking up an unprecedented tens of millions of downloads as shareware). It is, simply, the most explosive home-computer game franchise phenomenon in history.
Now, the game that made history is jumping from computer screens to the motion picture screen: get ready for Doom. Set countless yearsin the future and told in the hyper-kinetic, kamikaze style that made its gaming predecessor a global phenomenon, the science fiction action adventure Doom takes the viewer to the far corners of the galaxy with a fully-realized vision of a dark and disturbing future.
Doom will serve as the feature film directorial debut of Enda McCallion. The film is written by Dave Callaham, based on id Software and Activision videogame "Doom 3," and is produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Constantine) and John Wells (Far From Heaven, White Oleander, television's The West Wing, ER).
WEBSITE: Official Website Coming Soon
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PS. Reservation of minor TypeError - and no I didn't have anything else to do an a friday night then re-type the Flash announcement ( *geeks* - do have prioritise too, just not 'the usuals' :-))
PPS. Actors haven't be named yet, but according to imdb it look like The Rock ("The Scorpion King") will play 'Sarge' and Karl Urban ("The Bourne Supremacy", "Chronicles of Riddic" and "LoTR:TRoTK/TTT") will play 'John Grimm' (our Hero). Got to admit he actually looks *kinda a lot* like him
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I don't claim I know more than I know, and if you know you know more than I know, then by all means, let me know.
Some one needs to tell The Rock about "iddqd". That's the most important!!! But let's all hope and pray that this movie doesn't suck. Which all hope for that is lost once it hits the theaters.
--- hows it taste mother f$#@er!!!
People have complaned that doom 3 has too much plot. I Dont see how a movie can live true to the original intent of doom while maintaining a good plot. Personally i think a If it moves, shoot it, if it doesent pick it up movie would be pretty suckey. Im interested in seeing how this turns out. I BEAT DOOM 3. (in god mode)
I'm totally fed up with Hollywood deciding that instead of employing people to write new stories, that the best thing to do is to just find some video game (a format not really about "story telling"), pay a gazillion bucks for the rights, hire a cheap writer and stick a well-known cast on hoping to get enough punters in before word-of-mouth kicks in.
I looked this stuff up, and what people seem to be saying (I don't see any primary sources other than Mr. Weber) is that there was an agency that was selling babies, and that agency attempted to reduce the competition by siccing the INS on the other agencies, resulting in a long hold on adoptions during which Jolie managed to get her baby by doing business with the baby-selling agency. So not like you wrote, but still sleazy.
the story is about a marine who meets up with his scientist sister at the base. They band together and fight an "alien menace."
I should have known they'd slip a "power pussy" into the plot.
Let me guess, well see some 75 pound waif with inflated breasts toting dual gattling guns and/or rocket launchers whose combined weight would exceed her own mowing down demonic hordes as if they were chaff to a harvester.
I can't wait. I so just love such movies.
Not.
You mean pre-pubescent geek boy with no social skills downloadz warez copy of latest 3d shooter and wastes thousands of hours shooting monsters then gets bored and eventually starts downloading mods and creating own game maps?
:-)
Oooohhhhhhh, you mean there's another plot to the game?
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"The plot and setting is right from the game."
I don't know about you, but my games of Doom don't have any plot except 100% slaughter.
Now that's my kind of plot.
Si tacuisses philosophus mansisses. If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher.
Please let there be a Dopefish.
Who on earth are all these people?
I don't see anything in this listing that would even have my *think* about going into the cinema. Straight to DVD release for this one is my guess.
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
the original Doom 2 was released. Supposedly Arnold was going to play the lead. I was excited then, but I really don't care and don't intend to actually see a Doom movie now. It could be that I've already been through puberty and have outgrown the "OMG my favorite video game is going to be made into a movie!!! COOL!!" phase..or I'm just cynical about Hollywood and movies in general (especially those based on video games..the last one I actually kind of enjoyed was MK1).