Doom movie backing away News
PC Xbox News by Tom Bramwell
The Doom movie's own UAC, Universal Pictures, has revealed that the game's silver screen adaptation will make its cinematic debut on October 21st in the US.
The news comes courtesy of a pop-up (rather appropriately, given the nature of "BOO! III") on the UP website, ruling out previous June 24 and August 5 estimates.
The movie's journey to cinemas has been pretty broken up already, with several false starts, and fans have yet to slap eyes on any form of trailer - with only the hyperbolic outpourings of The Rock, one of the cast members, to go on.
Apparently he's going to play Sarge. Karl Urban and Rosamund Pike are also mooted to appear - the former in a central role - under Andrzej Bartkowiak's direction, working from a Dave Callaham script.
According to reports - and mainly IMDB - the film will see a special forces unit answering a distress call from a science lab on the planet Olduvai, only to discover that mutants are killing off the population.
Also, it will have the BFG in it. Although there's no word on the Soul Cube or any other potentially fun stuff.
Finally, in an interesting touch, it looks like some of the characters are named after members of staff at developer id Software, with Robert Russel lined up to play a "Dr. Carmack" and a pair of Willits also on the cast list.
What price a cameo from John Romero? We reckon he could play a scientist following a successful stint as Denzil Dexter in The Fast Show.
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praetorian
14/04/05 @ 09:28
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I asked Rosamund Pike out a couple of years ago (just after Die Another Day came out) when I saw her in the West End. She said no...
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Doom is and has always been created around the idea of "I have a BIG FUCKING GUN and a louzy hairday and there are a whole lot of cunts from hell fuckin up me day".
And that concept is fun, BUT IT FUCKIN LACKS THE STORYLINE TO MAKE A BLOODY FILM BASED ON IT! Hey, but then again, so do 99% of all the hollywood "blockbuster" films nowadays... /me votes for a ban on hollywood crap and promotion of european/asian films/anime. |
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"I can see the tagline for the posters now `we spent a fortune on the title only to create a space age turd` only to appear on dvd a few weeks later and then as official toilet paper so you can wipe your arse on it as you cry at what could of been."
Not going to happen. Can't use the phrase 'space age turd' in connection to film. George Lucas already has that TM'd for the DVD box-set of the first three SW eps. |
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asphaltcowboy
15/04/05 @ 13:25
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I've had confirmation that the rumours about it being on earth and with zombies, are not true, so don't worry :) And this was from someone working on the CG, so I think they'd know :)
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The Bodybuilder
15/04/05 @ 19:45
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>"i fort the second resi evil movie was quite gud loads of nice action"
Really? I broke the (pirated) DVD after seeing the church-scene action. And for this film? Well, just as long as it's better than the AWEFUL AWEFUL AWEFUL street fighter movie, then I'm happy. |
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Quote by Burton2000:
"i fort the second resi evil movie was quite gud loads of nice action" Yes, but see, this is the thing. You clearly can't spell, so your opinion is worth about as much as an old, broken Atari home console... about 50 pence, give or take a little. Most of us who can clearly demonstrate a grasp on the english language could see past the pretty lights and explosions, at a film underneath that was really quite poorly constructed, your average hollywood horror - lots of pretty stuff, no substance to back it up. ... or, in your language Burton2000... "Iz sh1t..." |
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