Doom (2005)

McClane

Under production at the moment. The Rock is gonna play a hgh ranking marine (Sgt Kelly ?) and yer man Eomer from LOTR is playing Doom guy.
I don't know how this movie is gonna work, they're giving Doom guy a name "John Grimm" :eek:
And they are not basing it on Mars nor or they implicately saying its Hell attacking, but its "implied".

I only hope and pray they don't **** this up.

aidan_walsh

McClane wrote:

I only hope and pray they don't **** this up.

Ah, but you know they will.

I wish they would realise that video game plots are meant for video games, not movies, and leave it as such. Its often stupidity to think that they can flesh out something that is often written only to get you from one room to the other into a full blown 90 minute script that will engage.

Or maybe they don't, and just know that people will pay to see it for the name only. Actually, thats probably a lot more like it...

McClane

Probably! but Doom isn't just another video game as i'm sure you know. Its Doom

"And on the third day Carmack said ...let there be Doom ...and it was good!"

Maximilian

I hear Meryl Streep is playing a cacodemon

McClane

at least stallone or swartz aren't playing Doom guy

That would be ............... :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

tuxy

doom the game has very little plot
what chance does this have

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

as much as any schwarzenegger film?

the_syco

Whats needed;

• R rating
• Lots of violence
• For it to be banned in @ least 2 countries due to violence of a graphic nature
• Every parents/children group to protest against it
• No plot
• Big muscle dude, small brain, no intelligence
• Ex-marine/speical ops (perferably a black ex-priest turned marine; the christain zealots will hate this)
• Start off with a chainsaw, and after decapitating someone with it, pick up their shotgun
• No intention of a sequel
• Depactations, hacking of limbs, shotgun blasts to the head, etc

When I say violent, I mean I want violent! And Doom has to be violent.

[url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419706/]imdb.com[/url] wrote:

Plot Outline: In the year 2145, a group of Marines on Phobos, the moon of Mars, face off against monsters who infiltrate their base after an experiment goes seriously awry.

.The trick will be making it gory enough.I hope they let it rip coz lets face it.People who were wheened on Doom 1 & 2 have got to be at least 17 by now.I say go with an R rating and everyone who used to play Doom will go and see it.The first Mortal Kombat movie was okay but I remember many fans complaining about the lack of blood-n-guts.Doom (with a title like Doom) should be expected to deliver shotgun blasts to the face,bloody body parts chained to the wall,and some serious chainsaw action.

Playboy

Oo a friend of mine is working in wardrobe on location in Prague .. must hit her for some inside info on what its going to be like when she is home at xmas

Karl Hungus

McClane wrote:

at least stallone or swartz aren't playing Doom guy

That would be ............... :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Yes, that would be excessive use of smileys indeed.

Mr E

It'll be watered-down a-la AvP and will get a 12s rating (and as such, will be a disaster)

RuggieBear

TmB wrote:

It'll be watered-down a-la AvP and will get a 12s rating (and as such, will be a disaster)

I can not but agree....

Just be thankful Uwe Ball is'nt involved.

McClane

Been banned in countries doesn't say much, Austrailia banned Half Life 2 (or were talking about it) and they only let grand theft auto release there after the developers cut down the violence and yet they let Doom 3 just sail in :cool:

Obviously no movie can ever compare to Doom the game. As long as i have shotguns, mutilated bodies and corpses preferably with several gunshot wounds to the head and guts (i'm getting images of half blown off faces here ) and they don't make the cyberdemon a little bitch that can be killed with a large amount of explosives and a cool phrase like "see ya in hell" i'll be happy.

Doom has a plot, you never read it ???

Doom storyline.

"kill stuff. the end"

chunk 3:16

its sad i know but we all know this is gonna suck ass :mad:
which is a shame.
the original director was an irish guy but he left or got
****canned because when the rock came aboard they decided
to make a 12s movie and he wouldnot stand for it.
so fair play to him but now we are left with a **** director :mad:
the guy who directed exit wounds.

so we wont get the loads of gore and violencee that we
want. no need. no deserve :mad:

does anyone want the directors cell number here in praha
phone him up and order him not to **** it up

i dont think it will work but worth a try

oh and i think it is set on mars

chunk 3:16

oh and one more thing that **** dexter fletcher
from lock stock and two smoking barrels is also in it :eek:

RebelRockChick

Actually " the irish guy" Enda McCallion did not leave because he didnt wanna do a 12 film, he left because the production company wanted a more xperienced director, so basically he was sacked.

Cactus Col

No Gore?! then how am I supposed to get an erection?


(and by that I mean movies don't have to be bloody to be great, and you never know, this movie just might be great.)

Goodshape

That's... er... interesting?

Movies may not need to be bloody to be great, or even good, but seen as this is an adaption of one of the original 'video game nasties' it would only make sense for it to be bloody as hell.

But your right, it might be good.. who can truly see that far ahead?

But it probablly won't be.

Retr0gamer

A doom film without gallons of gore is not a doom film and undeserving of the name. If they make it 12s it will be either crap or else it won't 'be' doom.

And I have respect for dexter fletcher. Liked him in lock stock and band of brothers and feel sorry for him because of the abuse he gets for doing gamesmaster. He poor guy had to put up with an awful lot of **** during that series according to dave perry.

Tusky

Who cares if they **** it up ? Doom is just an action packed gun crazy no story mindless fun game anyway. Its not like they are making Half Life or System Shock. Doom always had a terrible story.

LoLth

doodle_sketch wrote:

I wish they would realise that video game plots are meant for video games, not movies, and leave it as such. Its often stupidity to think that they can flesh out something that is often written only to get you from one room to the other into a full blown 90 minute script that will engage.

I dont know.. I mean look at resident evil that was great.. eh.. good..ehh ok, complete crap.

Now Half life and half life 2 would make a good film, as would far cry (the outdoors parts anyway)... doom? would require too much action to pay homage to the game and would be a bitty movie at best.

Retr0gamer

Metal Gear solid would make a great film. Theres plenty of other games with movie quality storylines. Its the choice of game to make into a film thats wrong. I mean Mario Bros.??

Half life would definitely not make a good film.

Pugsley

Final Fantasy 7, now theres a film oppertunity right there, with it it would be hard to get the whole story in any less than 2 films, best game story ever tbh.

OfflerCrocGod

It's F*cked. Oh well.

hairball

I reckon most games wouldn't make a good direct translation to screenplay simply because of the way they're structured narratively.
There is a difference in writing story for games and for the screen.
Add to that the fact that many of the games above mentioned are often a combination of ideas either inspired by or directly ripping off (sometimes both) movies books etc
Doom ironically would probably be one of the better ideas if you kept it schlock and had had somebody like raimi or romero direct.
I read there's gonna be a Halo movie....ringworld anyone??

adjodlo

My God. It's going to be nothing but bad news from here on in I'd suspect. And if that article is true that they've eliminated all references to hell, and basically everything that made the game DOOM. All it has is a well known name and a totally different plot.

I personally am gonna buy a load of cheap blank cd's and download the film for everyone I know, cause they wont stop making this crap until people stop paying to see it.

Crucifix

I don't like the sound of Swat team guys, and the lack of hell relation.
Seems to me if you're going to change those things why call it Doom? (I know I know, to reel in all the geeks like me who'll see it based on the title despite the fact that they've heard about the huge differences from the source material).

OfflerCrocGod

Crucifix wrote:

I don't like the sound of Swat team guys, and the lack of hell relation.
Seems to me if you're going to change those things why call it Doom? (I know I know, to reel in all the geeks like me who'll see it based on the title despite the fact that they've heard about the huge differences from the source material).

It's like I, Robot they are simply ripping off the name recognition of a piece of work and totally ignoring the source material. Assholes.

aidan_walsh

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news04/041203i.php

A correspondent of Novinky.Cz recently attended the Prague set of "Doom" and reported back a well spring of information in regards to the video game adaptation.

Originally, the $70 million film was supposed to be helmed by Enda McCallion. Later, he was replaced by Andrzej Bartkowiak. Screenwriter Dave Callahan claims "everyone was keen to keep the game's atmosphere", though there are some "minor" changes done to the film's concept: The monsters have nothing to do with hell, the plot is not taking place on Mars and "space marines" are not well "space marines" as their outfits are more like SWAT team members.

The story follows eight marines, teleported into a command centre of a secret base on a remote planet. There, they learn that something strange is happening and soon monsters start to appear. The monsters aren't from hell, but rather people mutated by some nasty super-virus although the monsters look very similar to those in the game.

One character is a technician called "Pinky" who has a cybernetic wheelchair thanks to a bad teleporting accident. Pinky later mutates into something remotely resembling a creature from Doom 3. Producers claim that the film will be more of a horror than an action shooter.

There will be loads of shooting though, especially in the end where a large number of sequences will be shot purely in "first-person" perspective of the leading character (Karl Urban). The chainsaw and Bio Force Gun do appear in the film.

Kazujo

There are books made along the Doom story line, but as said already about AvP there were great books written around that story too but they were also ignored. (There were certain details taken from the book but not the plot)