Doom Reboot

[Lord]

Old news but it seems like the classic video game will have another movie adaptation.

http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/115/1154514p1.html

Tomb Raider isn't the only game-to-film getting the reboot treatment if this new report pans out.

What's Playing claims that Universal is planning a 3D feature film reboot of Doom, a movie that will reportedly ignore the events of the 2005 film adaptation that starred Dwayne Johnson, Karl Urban and Rosamund Pike.

The site says the Doom reboot is in "the early stages of development" and is looking for a screenwriter. They also claim that "the success of Paramount's G.I Joe : Rise of Cobra piqued their interest even more" in a Doom sequel.

At time of publish, we were awaiting official comment from Universal, but sources over there were leaning towards this report being inaccurate. We'll let you know when we hear.

There was chatter back in 2008 that another Doom movie would take its inspiration from the forthcoming Doom 4 video game, which is slated for release later this year.

While i don't have much faith in the upcoming reboot i think a Doom movie could be great and i found an article that also has the same opinion:
http://www.cracked.com/article_15631_the-10-best-sci-fi-films-never-made_p2.html

#5.
A Doom that isn't a huge turd

I'm talking about a Doom directed by somebody who knows horror and knows action. I'm talking Paul Verhoeven, or John Carpenter.
Look, I don't expect a Doom movie to be freaking Citizen Kane. It's OK for the dialogue to be simple and stupid and I don't care if you cast a wrestler as the lead character. This is going to be a "B" movie.
But a "B" movie doesn't have to be ******. You hear that, Hollywood? You can make an unapologetic action movie and it can still be good. After all, in the world of video games, Doom isn't a "B" title. It's top of the line, the games always made by top developers with top budgets. Don't give me a knock off with a cut-rate action director (any Andrzej Bartkowiak fans out there?) with a creature effects budget less than that of the Doom 3 video game.
No, Doom needs somebody like a Paul Verhoeven, the guy who took a screenplay called RoboCop, a concept so cheesy it could easily have played like freaking Inspector Gadget, and turned in a relentlessly brutal, bloody film that originally earned an "X" Rating from the MPAA.

Yeah, that's a guy's arm getting blown off, dark ropes of gore stringing out of the wound. ThatDoom should have been, "B" movie horror and violence done with imagination. Have you seen Verhoeven's Starship Troopers? Imagine that film without all the political ******** that nobody involved understood anyway.

If you couldn't get Verhoeven, how about John Carpenter? Remember that moment in The Thing when the severed head grows legs and crawls away like a spider?

Imagine that director given a blank check to portray hordes of creatures literally from the bowels of hell. We're talking about a hard R-rated Doom that would even have adults sleeping with a night light for the next month.
So what happened?
The Chicago Cubs, that's what. The Cubs haven't won a World Series since 1908. Why? Because Cub fans sell out Wrigley Field every game, regardless of how bad the team is. Management makes money regardless of whether or not the team is winning, so why bother?
Likewise, studios think video game fans will pile into the theater on opening weekend regardless of whether or not any effort was put into the film. Will that change? Come ask me after I've seen the Peter Jackson-produced Halo, should they ever decide to actually make it.

 

[SoulManX]

old news but it seems like the classic video game will have another movie adaptation.

http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/115/1154514p1.html


while i don't have much faith in the upcoming reboot i think a doom movie could be great and i found an article that also has the same opinion:
http://www.cracked.com/article_15631_the-10-best-sci-fi-films-never-made_p2.html

 

[GREEN =w= DAY]

oh man, I remember back in the mid 90s there were rumors going around of a Doom movie starting Arnold Schwarzenegger and directed by Paul Verhoeven.

while it is highly unlikely that Arnold would star, if the reboot is indeed directed by Verhoeven and is faithful to the game, then this could be a good movie. not holding my breath though.

 

[Lord]

Arnold Schwarzenegger is old but since the game sucked a movie of Duke Nukem Forever could be better with him ; )

 

[Nightmare]

Hope its more based off the game.

 

[GhostPoet]

I was fine with the Doom movie we already had.

 

[Lord]

I was fine with the Doom movie we already had.

I wasn't
The monsters looked very cheap too, even as a realistic movie as they tried it to be it could have been better, but i'm thinking more, Evil Dead in Mars

 

[The Morningstar]

I hated the Doom movie. Why didn't they have the whole Hell aspect? Why some generic "scientific experiment" thing? Ugh.

Do it like Doom 3. That game was ****ing awesome.

 

[Lord]

I hated the Doom movie. Why didn't they have the whole Hell aspect? Why some generic "scientific experiment" thing? Ugh.

Do it like Doom 3. That game was ****ing awesome.

I second that

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Just utter lazyness and greed.

 

[Teelie]

Arnold Schwarzenegger is old but since the game sucked a movie of Duke Nukem Forever could be better with him ; )

That would probably be done sometime in 2045 and disappoint if it followed Duke Nukem Forever's example.

I hated the Doom movie. Why didn't they have the whole Hell aspect? Why some generic "scientific experiment" thing? Ugh.

Do it like Doom 3. That game was ****ing awesome.

As I recall they were uncomfortable with the whole demons/hell angle and some other ******** excuses they used to cover up they had no idea how to properly adapt the game to a movie.

 

[The Morningstar]

The demon/hell angle would have given the film a somewhat unique premise. What they went with was just cookie cutter nonsense.

 

[TX85]

I'll care or not once they confirm the story about hell or not,IF there's one thing from the last movie to be brought over to the new one that I really want.....Would have to be a another first-person shooter scene!!

 

[Lord]

I'll care or not once they confirm the story about hell or not,IF there's one thing from the last movie to be brought over to the new one that I really want.....Would have to be a another first-person shooter scene!!

But the scenne should look cooler, many people i know didn't like that one and found it silly while they liked the one from Transformers 3 for example

 

[dude stannis]

Bring back The Rock.

 

[Lord]

Bring back The Rock.

I don't think so

 

[dude stannis]

Dammit.

To bad 80's Kurt Russell stayed in the 80's. He'd be my ideal Doomguy.

 

[Lord]

Why not cast a bunch of unknowns and make the best movie they can?

 

[Teelie]

Because a movie with this kind of budget (if they take it seriously that is) needs a big name to carry it otherwise Hollywood is afraid it will flounder and fail with some unknown.

 

[Lord]

Then, what about vin deasel as a scientist
And Arnold Schwarseneger as Doom guy

 

[Secret Fawful]

Just make a mindless action movie where a marine friggin destroys demons on mars.

 

[Teelie]

Vin could fit but he's already too much like this in the Pitch Black movies and Arnold is too old to be a grunt.

 

[Lord]

Damnit, besides Rock (i have no problem with him but i don't see him as doom guy and because he was already in the original) which actor should be Doom Guy?
By the way, Arnold could play the general that doom guy assaulted before being sent to mars in the original game (it's on the manual and on the doom wikia)

 

[Paroxysm]

The Doom movie sucked, this will suck as well.

 

[rashad]

Doom definitely needs to have that Hell/Demons aspect featured. It ain't Doom without them. That's what made that game so damn creepy.