May still be hope for Doom the movie?

Post by **R00k** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:57 pm

I'm still pretty skeptical of course, but this review of the panel has some interesting stuff in it.

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=20755

I had written DOOM off after all the word starting coming out on how there was no Hell, no Mars and no creatures from the games. If they cut out Hell and Mars and creatures, then they were obviously going for a PG-13. I figured why the hell call it DOOM? I had really written it off as yet another shitty video game adaptation.
However, at the panel today they revealed some surprises... Id Software has been involved since the beginning, the producers, filmmakers and stars all wanted to make a movie that respected the source material and the studio was willing to put it out R-rated.
Confirmed in the movie: MARS! IMPS! HELLKNIGHT! THE BARON! PINKY DEMONS! GORE!
This made me smile. They premiered the trailer and then showed a clip that truly won me over... I'll get to those after the tidbits of info gleaned from the panel featuring producers John Wells, Lorenzo DiBoneventura, Todd Hollenshead (Id CEO), Karl Urban and The Rock.

-The Rock on the film: "It's unapologetic as hell, faithful and gory."

-They recreated sets directly from the game, like corridors and labs and even made the computer screens in the movie have the same style as what's on the computer screens in the game.

-The BFG was huge, according to The Rock.

-The monsters are big, most between 6 and 9 feet tall (and these are practical effects).

-"The intensity of the game is in the movie," said The Rock. From minute 5 we're there. Non-stop train ride to Hell."

-The young screenwriter Dave Callaham is very protective of the game.

-Lorenzo on the plot: He wouldn't go into it much but he did say, "A team on Mars chasing real evil, bad things."
-When pressed about differences between the games and the movie, Lorenzo said that we'll see how the monsters came about (Maybe this means no hell? Not sure.) and the evil little buggers get a chance to fuck up the Earth. Interesting...

So, Hell may or may not still be in, but at least it's going for an R rating now. But what I thought sounded really super cool is that there is at least one 5-minute scene that is shot to look just like an FPS game -- completely in Urban's POV, seeing the weapon in the bottom right corner, hearing reload times...

I'm starting to think it might be worth checking out after all.

Edit: And here's the text of an interview with Karl Urban:
http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=20806

Post by **losCHUNK** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:08 pm

its raised my hopes a bit but having 'the rock' in it

there are simply no excuses :/

i bet he does a rock bottom on a hell knight

Post by **bork[e]** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:12 pm

>

imo

Post by **R00k** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:24 pm

Vin Diesel is good for Pitch Black and Riddick, but I can't really see him playing Doom's characters for some reason.

An aside -- I saw an animated flick a couple weeks ago. It was the Riddick story, but the events took place between Picth Black and Riddick. I was blown away - the animation was awesome, and the scenes and action were fun as hell to watch. It was done by the artist who drew the Aeon Flux cartoons for Liquid Television years ago. If you like the movies, you should definitely check it out.

Post by **feedback** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:34 pm

R00k wrote:Vin Diesel is good for Pitch Black and Riddick, but I can't really see him playing Doom's characters for some reason.

An aside -- I saw an animated flick a couple weeks ago. It was the Riddick story, but the events took place between Picth Black and Riddick. I was blown away - the animation was awesome, and the scenes and action were fun as hell to watch. It was done by the artist who drew the Aeon Flux cartoons for Liquid Television years ago. If you like the movies, you should definitely check it out.

Yeah, that was pretty cool. The best part was where Vin Diesel puts that knife right fucking through that guys eye. I bet he did it in real life so the animators could draw it better.

Post by **R00k** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:35 pm

riddla wrote:In case id is watching this forum Hollenshead is a dick.

I'm sure he cares that you think so.

Post by **R00k** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:36 pm

feedback wrote:Yeah, that was pretty cool. The best part was where Vin Diesel puts that knife right fucking through that guys eye. I bet he did it in real life so the animators could draw it better.

lol, I remember that part, that was nuts. The guy is an unstoppable fucking maniac.

I still haven't seen Chronicles of Riddick, but that little flick made me want to check it out.

Post by **R00k** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:37 pm

If you care that he reads it, you obviously care what he thinks.

Post by **R00k** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:41 pm

Okay, I'm going to delete my last 2 posts on it then. I hate cluttering up my own threads.

Okay, nevermind, I can't delete my posts.

*clutters some more*

Post by **StormShadow** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:51 pm

Vin Diesel is an asshat... the rock (Dwayne, not Darrel, Johnson) is pretty cool actually. There are no great action movie stars anymore, unfortunately.

Post by **simple** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:10 am

At least it's not Hulk Hogan.
Just long as they don't do any wrestling move. IMO That really killed the last blade, not that it wasn't already dead. I just hope the rock can express the wide verity of emotions needed to convince the audience of the situation and and ambiance. Especially being scared shitless.
Could you imagining the first aliens movie if Ripely just kind of shrugged at the site of all the aliens.
The rock isn't my first pick, I would have rethread some one with more experience in military roles. Or at least science fiction like Vin Diesel. Then again the rock can probable carry a mini gun off a helicopter like it's a water pistol. And stand up agaisnt those huge monsters.
Personally I would have picked Malcolm Jamal Warner. He has a buff body, and has played a wide range of roles successfully. Malcolm Jamal Warner playas Kurdy Malloy in Jeremiah. He's also the rehab guy from the dead zone.

Post by **tnf** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:08 am

riddla wrote:good pic find, darrell beating on a woman :lol:

His name is Dwayne.

Post by **seremtan** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:59 am

R00k wrote:But what I thought sounded really super cool is that there is at least one 5-minute scene that is shot to look just like an FPS game -- completely in Urban's POV, seeing the weapon in the bottom right corner, hearing reload times...

it'll only be authentic if he has to juggle his torch

bork[e] wrote: >

imo

w3rd

riddla wrote:In case id is watching this forum Hollenshead is a dick.

todd just msn'd me and told me to tell you to say hi to your mom for him

Post by **-SKID-** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:07 am

Dont know if this has been posted.

Doom Movie trailer.

http://media.filmforce.ign.com/media/49 ... ids_1.html

Post by **dzjepp** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:21 am

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Jesus that looks so shitty. Fucking resident evil monsters!

I ain't seeing this shit.

Post by **4days** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:31 am

karl urban is good casting - he almost looks like the little status face on the bar at the bottom of the screen in the game.

dunno about the rock at all, he's been in a few okay films - but he doesn't look like a space marine (or whatever they're supposed to be). granted he looks like a big, hard bastard - but the trade-off is that he also looks like someone with a personal trainer, a dietician and a daily skincare regime.

the trailer does look quite shitty

Post by **Geebs** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:54 am

R00k wrote:
feedback wrote:Yeah, that was pretty cool. The best part was where Vin Diesel puts that knife right fucking through that guys eye. I bet he did it in real life so the animators could draw it better.
lol, I remember that part, that was nuts. The guy is an unstoppable fucking maniac.

I still haven't seen Chronicles of Riddick, but that little flick made me want to check it out.

Seriously, don't. It's shit.

Post by **Ryoki** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:58 am

Indeed. I thought it might be a good mindless action movie, but it even falls short in that category.

Post by **o'dium** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:59 am

Wow, everything looks so B_Movie horror crap.

Its like they couldn't just make the monsters look like they did in the game, they made them all wet ans slimey and shit, and it just doesn't look good at all...

It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the monsters looking THIS shit.

Shame. After what they AND id were saying (About the monsters looking bang on) I had hope, but now... Pfft, what the fuck?

Oh, and the Imps look more like those little weird things out of the original UE3 Gears Of War pics.

Post by **MKJ** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:38 am

imp are supposed to be brown anyway, not grey

doom3

Post by **o'dium** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 10:34 am

MKJ wrote:imp are supposed to be brown anyway, not grey

doom3

The problem with the movie imps isn't the colour as such, its the eye balls they had... They had eyes. In the games, they always had these dead orb eyes like a insect or something

Funny thing is, it was probably harder for them to make eyes than it was to stay true to the game, so dunno why they did that...

Post by **o'dium** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 10:36 am

R00k wrote:Vin Diesel is good for Pitch Black and Riddick, but I can't really see him playing Doom's characters for some reason.

An aside -- I saw an animated flick a couple weeks ago. It was the Riddick story, but the events took place between Picth Black and Riddick. I was blown away - the animation was awesome, and the scenes and action were fun as hell to watch. It was done by the artist who drew the Aeon Flux cartoons for Liquid Television years ago. If you like the movies, you should definitely check it out.

I really liked the riddick films, and the game was one of the best i've played in many many years.

They are doing a new game, which will obviously be the same type but different story. Hopefully with MP over live, too. There was talk about them making it a 360 game. And TBH, if the game looked that stunning on the original xbox, it must look crazy on a 360.

Post by **Mr.Magnetichead** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 10:47 am

Trailers out.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/doom/trailers.php

Looks fucking god awful.

Post by **Eraser** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 10:51 am

Chronicles of riddick was ok for a mindless action movie.
I find the Doom trailer a bit disappointing to be honest.

Post by **Mr.Magnetichead** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 10:53 am

A bit? I want to claw my fucking eyes out.

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