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09-25-2002, 09:49 PM
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The Hollywood Reporter Warner Bros. Pictures is in final negotiations to pick up the feature film rights to id Software's video game property Doom in a progress-to-production deal that will see the project go in front of the cameras in 15 months - or the rights revert back to the software company. Studio-based John Wells Prods. will produce the "Doom" film with recently departed worldwide production president-turned-producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. Once the deal is firmly in place, a writer will be put on board to pen the screenplay. Although the video game was controversial because of its violence, the feature film version will aim for a PG-13 rating. Doom is a first-person shooter launched in 1993; a third installment is scheduled for release next year. The feature film's story line will mostly resemble Doom III, which is set in the future at a paramilitary base on Mars, where a scientific experiment goes awry and accidentally opens a portal to hell. The vastly outnumbered hero fights off the demonic forces as they come from the portal onto the deserted base. This will be the basis for the feature version, without the constraints of the first-person shooter format. |
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09-26-2002, 07:32 AM
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I am reasonably sure the film rights to Doom were sold years ago and they couldn't get a film off the ground. I suppose they option passed the rights reverted back to Id.
Don't hold your breath. There is yet to be a film based on a video game that lived up to expectations.
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09-26-2002, 07:36 AM
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what, you didn't like mario brothers???
seriously, I can't see a DOOM movie being very good. That movie about the zombies last year was terrible, and it would be the exact same thing. Mortal Kombat wasn't too bad. |
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09-26-2002, 08:55 AM
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No. You could do it. It could work. The problem with Doom is the total absence of story. My understanding of Doom III is that it will be story driven. Still. Id isn't known for storytelling.
I would prefer to see a film based on Half-Life.
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09-26-2002, 09:38 AM
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<< Don't hold your breath. There is yet to be a film based on a video game that lived up to expectations. >> I dunno 'bout that... Final Fantasy pretty much blew me away [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]
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