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Doom Movie Pushed Back to October

Posted by Zonk on from the wait-for-it dept.

I know you're all waiting with breathless anticipation for the Doom film, but GamesIndustry.biz has word that you'll have to wait until October for the U.S. release. From the article: "The film was formerly expected to appear in late June in North America, but Universal's website confirms a report on horror movie website Bloody-Disgusting.com that it has swapped places with George Romero's next zombie movie, Land of the Dead."

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  1. Can you ssssmeeelllll....? by Otter · · Score: 4, Funny
    Maybe this is old news and I lost it in among all the whining about how the movie won't involve a link between Mars and Hell and therefore the plot just won't make any sense, but -- The Rock is going to be the star? That's the first promising-sounding thing about this movie. I can't imagine a better fit.

    Who are these other people going to be, though, monsters? I don't remember any other people in Doom, except for heads on stakes (and John Romero, at the end). Maybe they could get Michael Moore a cameo as a mancubus.

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    1. Re:Can you ssssmeeelllll....? by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'm sure there will be tons of stereotypical action movie dialog:

      "Come get some!"
      "You want some of this?"
      "How 'bout this?!"
      "Eat lead!"
      "Avaunt, ye demons! Lest ye taste the wrath of my BFG!"

      with the occasional comic relief, such as:

      "I'm hit!"
      "He's dead!"
      "Cover me!"
      "Hey, he just walked through a wall, that's a clipping bug!"

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    2. Re:Can you ssssmeeelllll....? by nomadic · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, why can't it have The Rock AND be set where the Doom games were played?

      That's stupid. There's no way you're going to fit all those movie cameras and props into my bedroom.

  2. No rush. by vertinox · · Score: 1, Funny

    I wasn't planning on watching it till it came out on latenight TV and then only if there was nothing else on.

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  3. In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...the Duke Nuken movie has been postponed until October 2010 ;)

    1. Re:In other news... by jweric · · Score: 1, Funny

      But who would be able to see it?
      Their would be so much nudity in it that it would be rated X...
      Besides... if its anything like the game... we wouldnt be able to see it anyways! At least until I become a senior citizen.

  4. I'm gonna make a movie called the brady bunch by ValuJet · · Score: 4, Funny

    Except I'm not going to include any of the bradeys. It will be a sci-fi flick on mars with hell beasts.

  5. Re:Thank You OMG! by Boronx · · Score: 2, Funny

    A move to later in the year means they think they have a shot at Best Picture.

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