DOOM film reboot green-lit - report

By Robert Purchese Published 10 March, 2011

To be smothered in 3D.

Universal wants to make a new DOOM film, despite the first unanimously falling foul of critics and averaging a lowly 34 per cent (Metacritic).

This will be a reboot, What's Playing reports, and Universal is looking for a script that uses stereoscopic 3D to the max. A script? "Here come the demons in stereoscopic 3D!" "Shoot your bullets at them in stereoscopic 3D!"

Apparently Paramount's success with GI Joe rekindled Universal's interest.

The DOOM film, released in 2005, starred famous wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Karl Urban (the evil hitman in Bourne Supremacy and FBI supremo in newer film Red). Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li director Andrzej Bartkowiak put the film together.

Meanwhile, DOOM game creator id Software steadily beavers away on DOOM 4. We haven't seen anything but we've heard plenty, the developer's Todd Hollenshead saying DOOM 4 will "absolutely blow you away".

Picture of Robert.

About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

Read more articles from Robert by visiting the Robert Purchese archive page.

You may also like...

Comments (42) Latest comment 10 months ago

Comments for this article are now closed, but please feel free to continue chatting on the forum!

  • LFace #1 1 year ago

    Joy, another migraine inducing 3D film made purely to charge higher price admission tickets. Stop with the 3D bullshit already, it wasnt cool in the 80s and its not cool now.

  • bushwod #2 1 year ago

    I hope Dexter Fletcher is in it again.

  • Lexx87 #3 1 year ago

    Will it actually be anything to do with DOOM this time? Like Mars, portal to hell, that sort of stuff.

  • StolenGlory #4 1 year ago

    To be smothered in shit more like.

  • Riggers #5 1 year ago

    "and Karl Urban (the evil hitman in Bourne Supremacy and FBI supremo in newer film Red)"

    You forgot he was the smoking hot Eomer in the Lord of the Rings film.

  • PixelPirate #6 1 year ago

    this is probably to do with Resident Evil 3D taking so much money as well.

    cant wait for the 3D bubble to burst. Its not sustainable.

  • ExplodingClown #7 1 year ago

    See the Red Key leap out of the screen as never before!

  • carlitoswagon #8 1 year ago

    If they could create anything remotely scary it would be a start. Doom (the movie) was utter bollox from start to finish and probably scuppered some behind-the-scenes hopes of a trilogy. Unfortunatley, I predict more bollox unless a half decent director/producer take it seriously instead of just spending big on the marketing & trailers.

  • Eurolamer #9 1 year ago

    "The DOOM film, released in 2005, starred famous wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson"

    Hmm... OK

    "and Karl Urban (the evil hitman in Bourne Supremacy and FBI supremo in newer film Red)."

    Oh, OK.

    "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li director Andrzej Bartkowiak put the film together."

    THERE IT IS. That's why it was a truckload of bum wash.

  • LazyNinjaUk #10 1 year ago

    I doubt this version will be any closer to the original source material of the games, 3D is just another excuse for movie studios to charge twice as much over the regular film, some films work well with it but generally I really don't think it's at a level where it's worth paying such an over inflated price.

    Case in point:
    Despicable Me standard Blu Ray in HMV = £14.99
    Despicable Me 3D!!!! Blu Ray in HMV = £24.99

    Fuck off!

  • Shikasama #11 1 year ago

    I quite liked the Doom film.

    I didn't go in and expect to see an Oscar winning film. That FPS section was genius.

  • geeza2020 #12 1 year ago

    Shikasama:- You and me have very different interpretations of the word "genius" :-)

  • Murton #13 1 year ago

    "Will it actually be anything to do with DOOM this time? Like Mars, portal to hell, that sort of stuff."

    A movie based on a video game using said video game for source material? that's crazy talk and you know it Lexx87

    Shame that games publishers/developers aren't more protective of their IPs, the world would be a much better place if the Max Payne movie had never happened and that O'Russel dude wouldn't be setting up to rape the Uncharted franchise. Oh well, i'm sure someone will make a video game movie that does justice to itself, I'm just worried that it will be a completely unmarketed and largely invisible straight to dvd project that we will near hear of.

  • memeroot #14 1 year ago

    I quite liked the first film.... though that thing on mars was better

  • ZizouFC #15 1 year ago

    What a waste of money this will be.

  • ZuluHero #16 1 year ago

    More doom and gloom. I'm amazed Uwe Boll hasn't tried to get a hold of it. Seems like his sort of adaptation...

  • Zebula77 #17 1 year ago

    Lol! The FPS section was interesting and quite well put together, but I can't say there was anything else even remotely memorable in the movie.

    DOOM being made into a movie in the first place was a bad idea. A sequel/reboot is even worse.

  • space_ace #18 1 year ago

    it better be an italian-exploitation-style gore fest

  • Jolly_Armadillo #19 1 year ago

    Don't just go for the machoist actors you can find and actually get some decent believable characters then it may be good. Not interested in macho, running and gunning bullshit. Make it a proper space horror!

  • the_dudefather #20 1 year ago

    I hope they make it like this

  • altitude2k #21 1 year ago

    My main problem with the original Doom was the science. Yes, it's a film, so take it with a pinch of salt, but every GCSE science student knows that having an extra chromosome doesn't make you superhuman - it means you've got Downs Syndrome.

  • sonicyoda #22 1 year ago

    I actually enjoyed the Doom film. Plenty of campy horror and action. I'd totally be down with a new Doom film aslong as the "3D" isn't an excuse for people to fall through glass in slow motion so the pieces can spray into your face. Some actual references to hell would also be nice.

  • mcreddie #23 1 year ago

    I still think they should make the entire film in first person. That would be sick in 3d.

  • arcam #24 1 year ago

    Not interested in macho, running and gunning bullshit

    Ever played Doom?

  • Canyarion #25 1 year ago

    I actually liked the Doom movie. I didn't know what movie it was, but it had abandoned Marines on a creepy planet, with some kind of monsters getting close. Me and my friends enjoyed it.
    After an hour or so I realized it was the movie adapation of the game... I was surprised.

  • coolbritannia #26 1 year ago

    Surely his turn as Doctor McCoy is more relevant?

    And I don't want a Doom movie, I want a Dead Space movie!

  • Tomo #27 1 year ago

    I actually liked the Doom film too. I know it was terrible really, but I enjoyed it somehow.

  • S.J.Rogers #28 1 year ago

    The only good thing about the Doom movie...

    http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/2199/...

  • Genome #29 1 year ago

    Karl Urban can channel DeForest Kelley, so don't badmouth him. ;)

    But honestly, a reboot? They did one film, there's no fucking need to call it a reboot. Everyone knows it will suck and be something you watch while a bit hungover on a Sunday morning - like you do with the original. The original had the FPS scene, though, which was quite decent. That could be interesting in 3D.

  • Lemming81 #30 1 year ago

    Get Stallone to direct it.

  • Zebula77 #31 1 year ago

    @coolbritannia: "And I don't want a Doom movie, I want a Dead Space movie! "

    Hells yes! Best comment I've read all day. :)

  • FortysixterUK #32 1 year ago

    I thought Doom an outstanding no brainer guns n glory movie. I loved it.
    More Dooms and more Resi movies please.

  • darleysam #33 1 year ago

    Karl Urban is Eomer from Lord of the Rings!

    But yeah, if they're going to reboot it, actually make it about a portal to hell and demons, not some poxy superman virus, damnit.

  • ExplodingClown #34 1 year ago

    @mcreddie: The film might possibly be 'sick'. The audience definitely would be.

  • Artemis_Matsas #35 1 year ago

    "Apparently Paramount's success with GI Joe rekindled Universal's interest."

    Wow, i must have been watching watching a different movie then :p

  • pooKy1979 #36 1 year ago

    Thing is, games just steal wholesale from movies anyway. This is why game adaptations invariably stink the place up. They're a muddy photocopy, a pastiche of a pastiche. I'm a massive Dead Space fan for instance, but would hate to see a movie. I'd rather just rewatch Alien/Aliens/The Thing/Sunshine/Event Horizon. As a game it's an affectionate homage to great sci-fi/horror, as a film it would just be derivative shit.

  • sega #37 1 year ago

    Oh I'm actually quite interested in this. Was disappointed by the original because it didn't use the hell theme - I mean that's what Doom is all about. I want to see walls made of skin and organs and demons running around and those pig things and a shotgun and when you walk around dead people their feet are always facing you.

  • TRUTH #38 1 year ago

    Every film I seen in 3D, inc the major two 3D films Avatar to Tron 2 - simply haven't impressed me. 3D in movies are just a way of selling more expensive movie tickets.

    The Green Hornet, Clash Of Titles, Avatar, Tron 2...all overhyed and actually enjoyed more without 3D (colour depth, resolution, more focused less blurry viewing, no shade when wearing glasses - all a better without 3D)

  • ExplodingClown #39 1 year ago

    The movie industry loves 3D because it's a lot harder to pirate than standard DVD or BluRay. If anything's going to popularise 3D, frankly... it'll be porn. From the printing press to the internet, porn's been one of the most powerful drivers of media technology. It sold more VCRs than anything else, that's for sure. Channel 4 did a great documentary, 'Pornography: The Secret History Of Civilisation'. Look it out, it's very enlightening on the subject.

  • makeamazing #40 1 year ago

    I liked the Doom movie, is that wrong?

  • Architect_z #41 1 year ago

    Stone Cold should now be in charge of the soldiers unit.

  • Sheytan #42 10 months ago

    I hope they film the movie with real 3d cameras like Avatar and RE3D, because 3d movies where the 3d effects is put on after looks like shit