Who's going to play the big floating eye?

Doom Movie Scriptwriter Dave Callaham Interviewed [slashdot.org]

I heard that an issue was the amount of goriness. Remember the soldiers hanging from meathooks ? Apparently the director wants to show that!

How do you make a movie without vertical clipping? I think it's going to be a real challenge to explain to the audience why a rocket fired 300 feet below someone can hit them. Should make for interesting cinematography though.

No plot and Mars.

Hooray! Because we all know that films [imdb.com] based on video games [imdb.com] are always great [imdb.com]

...cuz you can't have both, Mr. The Rock.

I want the post of Gaffer for that movie!

The poor man's Vin Diesel.

He'll probably have to type IDKFA every thirty seconds just to make it through the movie.

I believe the rock will not only do all his own stunts, but he will also be doing all his own camera work too.

You can't beat those first-person movies.

In other words, there is no plot, and the movie is set in several hallways and rooms that look identical to the one in the last scene.

... with any luck, it'll be every bit as good as the comic book [doomworld.com].

release date of August 5, 2005

To let the general public get the full Doom experience, they should push the release date back like 5 or 6 times and eventually put it out in 2009.

The code to destroy the base is IDKFA.

A story so short there is no need to read the article.

Anyone can submit info to the The Internet Movie Database, and it's rather notorious for posting incorrect information about movies which are still far from release.

I'm not saying that the casting news at the imdb definitely isn't true, I'm just saying to take it with a grain of salt.

1. Star-studded cast - check

2. Fantastic storyline - check

3. Less than a year from production to release - check

Wow - how will this not be a hit?

Will movie theaters need to upgrade to the latest video equipment to be able to run this film?

The plot and setting is right from the game.

Oh come on, do you think they can really condense the intricate storyline, complex characterizations, and nuanced dialogue of Doom into a 2 hour movie? I think not.

Good god, people, Doom had a bad storyline EVEN BY VIDEOGAME STANDARDS. Who actually thinks it will make a good movie? If you answer "me", then please explain it to me.

The funny thing is most slashdot stories about something the MPAA has done are followed by comments about "who cares, Hollywood movies are so bad why would you want to watch them anyway?". You do realize that you can't honestly be in both camps, you know? You can't criticize the mindless drivel that Hollywood puts out and then say in the next breath that you're eagerly awaiting Doom.

Alright, I MAY see it, but that's only because Rosamund Pike is sexy as hell. When you're the sexiest woman in a movie [imdb.com] that also stars Halle Berry, that's something special. But the movie itself isn't something that a sentient being should look forward to.

Call me a pessimist, but I can't see modern Hollywood producing such a violent and gory film. This will probably be another sci-fi/horror flick turned PG-13 (which you can't really call Doom). No studio in it's right mind is going to release a film with people gutted and hanging on hooks. Soccer Moms of the world would have them for lunch.

from the original game...

You're a marine, one of Earth's toughest, hardened in combat and trained for action. Three years ago you assaulted a superior officer for ordering his soldiers to fire upon civilians. He and his body cast were shipped to Pearl Harbour, while you were transferred to Mars, home of the Union Aerospace Corporation.

The UAC is a multi-planetary conglomerate with radioactive waste facilities on Mars and its two moons, Phobos and Deimos. With no action for fifty million miles, your day consisted of suckin' dust and watchin' restricted flicks in the rec room.

For the last four years the military, UAC's biggest supplier, has used the remote facilities on Phobos and Deimos to conduct various secret projects, including research on inter-dimensional space travel. So far they have been able to open Gateways between Phobos and Deimos, throwing a few gadgets into one and watching them come out the other.

Recently, however, the Gateways have grown dangerously unstable. Military "volunteers" entering them have disappeared or been stricken with a strange form of insanity -- babbling vulgarities, bludgeoning anything that breathes, and finally suffering an untimely death of full-body explosion. Matching heads with torsos to send home to the folks became a full-time job. Latest military reports state that the research is suffering a small set-back, but everything is under control.

A few hours ago, Mars received a garbled message from Phobos. "We require immediate military support. Some fraggin' evil is coming out of the Gateways! Computer systems have gone berserk!" The rest was incoherent. Soon afterwards, Deimos simply vanished from the sky. Since then, attempts to establish contact with either moon have been unsuccessful.

You and your buddies, the only combat troop for fifty million miles were sent up pronto to Phobos. You were ordered to secure the perimeter of the base while the rest of the team went inside. For several hours, your radio picked up the sounds of combat: guns firing, men yelling orders, screams, bones cracking, then finally, silence. Seems your buddies are dead.

It's Up To You

Things aren't looking too good. You'll never navigate off the planet on your own. Plus, all the heavy weapons have been taken by the assault team leaving you with only a pistol. If only you could get your hands around a plasma rifle or even a shotgun you could take a few down on your way out. Whatever killed your buddies deserves a couple of pellets in the forehead. Securing your helmet, you exit the landing pod. Hopefully you can find more substantial firepower somewhere within the station.

As you walk through the main entrance of the base, you hear animal-like growls echoing throughout the distant corridors. They know you're here. There's no turning back now.

The really sad thing here is that the Doom movie is likely to be more true to the original than Peter Jackson's LotR trilogy was.

My son is an avid film buff and Doom player. By chance, he got a copy of the script. An excerpt from his email describing the script:

Bad doesn't begin to describe it. It is one of the single best examples of everything thats wrong with Hollywood. The charachter

sic development is so awful that you actually want everyone to die so that the movie will.
(spoiler warning)...
And one of the marines (john) and his scientist sister figure out that essentially this virus from another planet infects the DNA of people and then, if they are bad, manipulates their inner badness into an external representation making them monsters (resulting in lines like "we've all got a monster inside"). So John, since he has not been infected because all the monsters know that he is so good (literally thats the rationale), has his sister pump him full of the virus, and it manipulates his goodness into an angelic form making him an angel (seriously).

Who's going to play Barney the dinosaur? If this movie doesn't have a Barney patch, it's just not worth watching.

* WARNING - SPOILER! *

According to a leaked copy of the script, it appears that in the final scene, just before stepping into the final room full of monsters, The Rock will step up to a computer terminal and type in "idkfa".

Then after picking up all the weapons and ammo that have inexplicably just materialized in front of him, he'll type in "iddqd" followed by "idspispopd".

Then apparently he'll just walk right through the wall and blow the entire room away without taking a single hit!

ooh THE ROCK types IDKFA!!!

HA HA HA, yeah, it was posted 4832984 times before this post and each are marked funny. IT'S FUNNY, PEOPLE.

We can't hear this one enough, can we?!

"Hey, The Rock!"
"IDKFA?!"
"Yes."

*insert joke about flashlight* ... ...

IDKFA!!! HA HA HA.

I think the burning question is whether you'll be allowed to download the first 20 minutes off P2P, before a little message pops up saying "Get the other 40 minutes, for only $4.99 - plus, a free hint booklet!"