DOOM movie director change

From the news byte:

Storyline for "Doom" is loosely based on the current id Software and Activision videogame, "Doom 3" (mad scientists + bad virus = zombie hacking).
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Sure they don't have DOOM confused with another zombie game? :p
 
He's also directed Lethal Weapon 4 and and Thirteen Days, which were both good movies. Romeo Must Die and Exit Wounds were good... Cradle 2 the Grave was so-so.
 
correct me if i am wrong
but isn't doom about hell breaking lose?

and isn't the mad scientists + bad virus = zombie hacking resident evil??
 
Bob002 said:
He's also directed Lethal Weapon 4 and and Thirteen Days, which were both good movies. Romeo Must Die and Exit Wounds were good... Cradle 2 the Grave was so-so.
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he was like, the lighting director on those movies...not the director ;)
 
hell breaking lose / madscientists +zombies all equal 'blah blah blah' to the movie companies, they will hear, however 'the game sold $!125084075401750 so the movie should too!"
 
Impulse said:
Will Carmack have a cameo?! :cool:
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As a pilot of a spacecraft would be pretty cool. :D

He was cinematographer on those movies. Not entirely what that means but I'm pretty sure it's above Lighting Director and below Director. He possibly picks the shots once the Director has told the actors where to walk/talk/shoot/whatever.
 
Cinematographer is also know as the "Director of Photography" or DP. They report to the Director, and as you can guess, are in charge of the technical aspects of filming a scene.

The director has overall creative control, but most give the DP an idea of what they are looking for in a shot, and let them go for it. Director then gets to sit back, say "cut", abuse the actors for fscking up lines, get the production assistant to pick out the blue M&Ms form the craft services table, and do interviews for Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. When the shot is done, they then get to say they want another take.

I had a friend that was an assistand on a number of TV shows at Paramount, and he tells me this is pretty much how it works for film and television :)
 
I hear the Doom movie and Duke Nukem Forever will be released on the same day! :rolleyes:
 
I'm personally more concerned that the screenplay is written by someone with no notable credits.

This means that EVEN IF the screenplay is ok, he probably has absolutely no control over it, and it will get hacked to bits.
 
LazerWire said:
I'm personally more concerned that the screenplay is written by someone with no notable credits.

This means that EVEN IF the screenplay is ok, he probably has absolutely no control over it, and it will get hacked to bits.
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the only GOOD screenplay ever written was when Homer and Mel Gibson remade "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington". What a great show that turned out to be when the suits were cut out of the process :)
 
You guys are getting all hyped up about this for no reason. This movie will suck, I guarantee it. It will be like all other "game movies" and have meager resourced tossed at it.

Do I hear a cheeze copy of Resident Evil making it to the big screen? Not that RE was all that great. :rolleyes:
 
Zyme said:
the only GOOD screenplay ever written was when Homer and Mel Gibson remade "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington".
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Quoted For The Truth!!!!!11!11!1!1!!1!!
 
I didn't think RE was that bad, it wasn't stellar sure, but it was better than half the comic book movies out there (I know, not saying much). Then again, I only played the first RE game.

Now the Wing Commander movie... <shudder>
 
Has any movie based on a game not sucked?

Super Mario = teh sux
Street Fighter = Still can't beleive they made this movie
Mortal Kombat = blew
Double Dragon = wtf
Final Fantasy = Haven't seen it due to bad word of mouth
Resident Evil = Haven't seen it

Pretty bad track record.


Do you think they will have the flashlight limitation in the movie? Where we'll only be able to see one illuminated dot on the screen the whole time. ;)
 
I actually liked Super Mario the movie and Resident Evil. Too many gamers are overly critical of movies based on video games, because they can relate to the movies and somehow that makes them better than the directors.

It's the same thing that happens to movies like The Hulk, Spiderman, Spiderman 2, and The Punisher. Comic book fans will always find a reason to hate the movies because it's not the way they invisioned it.

I didn't care too much for Final Fantasy when I first watched it because I went to the movie thinking it was based on the game series. In fact, I thought it sucked...but a couple of years later I watched it again knowing it had little to do with the video game series, and I actually enjoyed watching it. The graphics are simply amazing, and reason enough to watch it at least once. I doubt I'd watch the movie a second time because I don't really care for the storyline, except the extra's on the DVD are pretty hilarious.
 
has there ever been a good movie made from a game script?


I bet Pong: The Movie, would have been entertaining
 
Steve said:
he was like, the lighting director on those movies...not the director ;)
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It would be funny to have an ex-lighting director directing a movie based on Doom 3. what with there being no lights in doom3!
 
It should require 3d glasses and have fake blood hose the crowd down... and star Chuck Norris as "the cyberdemon kung-fu master."
 
This is how it will be...

In walks Doom guy (The Rock)

Rock: Yo Scientist guys... where is my beer?!
Scientist: Don't be so cocky big man.... soon things will happen.
Rock: Whatever... just get me a beer... and some guns... and some hot foreign chick.

10 minutes go by...

Rock: Oh shit demons... (grabs an arm off a buddy and impales 50 zombies, while he dodges every bullet ever)

Rock: Oh shit, time for the typical action movie sex scene that has nothing to do with anything...

Sex scene (Insert porno music)

Rock: Oh shit my hot foreign chick is a zombie! Good thing I have my trusty "gun" with me.

*Rock impales chick*

*Rock says "owned" in a poor attempt to appeal to the young male audience*

Rock: Oh shit, time for a story change. Turns out that zombies and zombie hacking were really government plots to frame me for screwing up a good story to a good game. Now it's my fault for making this horrible movie... and it could have been soooo cool.*

*LOUD NOISE... zombies come pouring out or the walls...*
Rock: Time for some cheesy wire flying and bad acrobatics.

The End

Credits... which include no one of any importance, and more importantly, DO include people who just want to make money, and have no respect for an already good story. They also include bad writers paid *** loads of money to write a horrible story to replace the already golden one, and then to pass it off as their own "brilliance". No one from id, activision, or anyone that actually knows anything about Doom, were consulted to assist in making the movie.
 
Jason Isom said:
I actually liked Super Mario the movie and Resident Evil. Too many gamers are overly critical of movies based on video games, because they can relate to the movies and somehow that makes them better than the directors.

It's the same thing that happens to movies like The Hulk, Spiderman, Spiderman 2, and The Punisher. Comic book fans will always find a reason to hate the movies because it's not the way they invisioned it.
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I tend to agree, tho there's exceptions like the X-Men ones, I thought those were stellar and altho the story wasn't an exact translation it was an awesome adaptation, better in fact than most of the "What If" scenarios you see often on special editions of the comics.

I still think Mario sucked either way but RE was ok, Hulk was pretty decent, and Spiderman was good (liked the second one better myself, I didn't like the way the effects were done on the first). I haven't seen Punisher nor Final Fantasy tho.

All the fighting game ones sucked tho, I don't think there's any disputing that, they were all older than the afformentioned examples too... I don't have much hope for the Doom one 'cuz well... There's not much backstory to begin with. RE had a hot actress and decent effects, somewhat of a backstory, the recent comic book ones had years of backstory to work with.

Doom doesn't even have a central character on the videogame itself! Who knows, it could be excellent, it just won't have much to do at all with the game tho.
 
Bruce Campbell is the only thing that could save this movie now.

But I liked the original Mortal Kombat movie.
 
You also gotta consider the demographic of many of these movies... Young adults may enjoy their Doom deathmatches and even comic books but a far bigger amount of young teens and kids do so too. Mortal Kombat in particular was aimed at the latter imo, and it succeeded on that level.

I can't remember what age I was when I saw the first one but I remember being in 8th grade or so when Mortal Kombat came out, maybe 9th? Dunno, maybe even less. I saw the movie from a far different perspective then than I do now tho.
 
Resident Evil: Apacolypse was alot better than the first, and incorporated moments from the remaining 3 RE games rather than a small portion of the first.
 
this movie can't work... all because of the soul cube. U know damn well it will be hacked by critics that havent played. They'll say that it needs to be a bigger part of the story if it is gonna be so powerfull. Come on nothing just appears 3/4 through a successful movie and is that powerful. If it is gonna be put in the movie the story needs to be somewhat built around it. Not just all that i have what u seek crap near the end.
 
It will suck, just like the Far Cry movie will suck. It's a vicious cycle...good game -> bad movie, good game -> bad movie...etc
 
that's not a cycle - it's a direct correlation which isn't always true

i'll reserve my opinion until i learn more about this movie in detail.
 
We can all thank god/allah/whatever deity you like for the fact that Uwe Boll and/or Paul W.S. Anderson are not attached to direct.

I am sad that this will not get the attention and ratings it deserves. Doom would have to have a NC-17 rating to be anywhere near what these games truly strived for. The same could be said about Resident Evil, Duke Nukem (if that ever gets made), and even... The Punisher. If you've read the Garth Ennis Punisher comics you know what I'm talking about.
 
the first Punisher movie was horrid with Dolph Lungren ..then second was was definately better but still a ho hum lite action movie at best ..

I used to be heavily into comicbooks , had a collection worth about 5 g's (that was back in early 90's , now they'd be worth much more) ..anyways , the Punisher was a bonified psycho and went after (read try to kill) anybody who broke any fraction of the law ..he would snipe peeps for jaywalken even... so the movies didnt even come close to capturing that (I think first one made more of an attempt at that then then second tho) ..

I say all that to say this ..Doom will probably not even come close to the horror action theme that it was intended to be .. we can only hope that it might be on par with Aliens when all is said and done.
 
ThreeDee said:
the first Punisher movie was horrid with Dolph Lungren
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Sadly all I can remember is the gratuitous ass shots of him throughout the movie which have scarred me for life. No one needs to see Ivan Drago's ass thank you very much. :(
 
I can't remember if it was here or somewhere else that someone posted this, but the main idea was that we're all thinking of how we would've done it.

In all these Game and Movie related topics, one thing is missing.

No one is thinking about the general population. They are strictly thinking from a gamer/comic book reader perspective.

For example. In Aliens Vs. Predator, they spent most of the movie explaining the co-relation between the two. Most people in our demographic already *know* this, and don't have to be told. Does Joe Schmoe know? No, he doesn't, so it has to be explained to him so that the movie makes sense to most everyone.

Any movie based on a game/book, etc has to be like that, otherwise they risk losing potential viewers, at least if they are trying to properly incorporate the book or game.
 
they should get Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell to do Doom 3.




S1nF1xx said:
Has any movie based on a game not sucked?

Super Mario = teh sux
Street Fighter = Still can't beleive they made this movie
Mortal Kombat = blew
Double Dragon = wtf
Final Fantasy = Haven't seen it due to bad word of mouth
Resident Evil = Haven't seen it
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first Mortal Kombat was awesome, Mario Bros. was pretty sweet, and Resident Evil 1 and Apocolypse were very awesome.

ironically, the guy who played as John Leguizamo in Mario Bros. is on MTV's Cribs; when he gets to his room of movies he's been in, he mentions he wishes Mario Bros. was better.:D

S1nF1xx said:
Pretty bad track record.
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RE1 has a very awesome sound track.

S1nF1xx said:
Do you think they will have the flashlight limitation in the movie? Where we'll only be able to see one illuminated dot on the screen the whole time. ;)
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well that's how it is in real life from the point of view of... yourself. if you're doubting that, stop playing doom and get out more becase your grip of reality has been severly skewed.:p

but then again, i doubt any movie would be made in first person entirely, so you won't have to worry about that.
 
Bob002 said:
For example. In Aliens Vs. Predator, they spent most of the movie explaining the co-relation between the two. Most people in our demographic already *know* this, and don't have to be told. Does Joe Schmoe know? No, he doesn't, so it has to be explained to him so that the movie makes sense to most everyone.

Any movie based on a game/book, etc has to be like that, otherwise they risk losing potential viewers, at least if they are trying to properly incorporate the book or game.
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Unless they make a long ass saga, e.g. LotR... Obviously not every studio will make a saga or even a two-parter out of any other license tho, for economic as well as practical reasons.
 
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