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Masters of Doom Movie In The Works

Posted by Zonk on from the not-directed-by-a-game-hater dept.

John Callaham writes "The film industry trade publication Variety announced today that Showtime plans to make a bio-pic movie based on Masters of Doom, the 2003 released non-fiction book on the formation of Doom developer id Software." More coverage available on Gamasutra. Now there is a Doom movie that I'd like to watch.

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  1. Re:Hollywood will fuck it up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    like Doom had a storyline...

    It may not be a good storyline, but it exists:
    Scientists for the UAC develop teleportation. They set up teleporters between Phobos and Deimos, the moons of Mars. The Deimos teleporter goes wrong and opens a portal to Hell, and in fact the whole moon is sucked in and ends up hovering above Hell. Demons come through into our universe.

    A group of marines land on Phobos to try and find out what the hell is going on. The party that enters the base first all die, so the guy they left outside to guard the entrance goes in after them. He fights his way through the base, goes through the portal to Deimos, fights his way through the other base, and descends into Hell, where he kicks major demon ass and finally kills the big bad spider-demon that had been going to lead the assault on Earth. He then goes through the portal the demons had opened directly to Earth to get home.

    Unfortunately (we're now in Doom 2) the demonic army had already begun the invasion. So our hero, directed by the powers that be who are IIRC evacuating people to the Moon, starts by doing something or other (can't remember what) to cut off Earth and trap the demons there so they can't eradicate humanity. Then he goes back into Hell, kicks more major demon ass, wipes out the big boss demon who was behind everything, and wins.
    Sounds vaguely familiar. Oh yeah, it's the story of the Harrowing of Hell retold as sci-fi action, with Jesus played by a nameless space marine. Hey, there's more to it than you knew, huh?