Doom is a
2005The year 2005 in film saw many new films released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels, prequels, and remakes as well as original films.-Top–grossing films:...
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, loosely based on the popular
Doom series of video games created by
id Softwareid Software is an American video game development company from Mesquite, Texas. The company was founded in 1991 by four members of the computer company Softdisk: programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian Carmack...
. It was directed by
Andrzej BartkowiakAndrzej Bartkowiak, A.S.C. is a Polish cinematographer and director.In the early 1980s, Bartkowiak was cinematographer on three films that received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture: The Verdict, Terms of Endearment, and Prizzi's Honor.Most recently, Bartkowiak teamed up with Ashok...
and was released in the
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on October 21, 2005 and in the
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on December 2, 2005.
On February 7, 2006, the Unrated DVD version of
Doom was released. The unrated DVD has a running time of 1 hour 53 minutes, 8 minutes longer than the rated release.
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Doom is a
2005The year 2005 in film saw many new films released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels, prequels, and remakes as well as original films.-Top–grossing films:...
science fictionScience fiction is a genre of fiction. It differs from fantasy in that, within the context of the story, its imaginary elements are largely possible within scientifically-established or scientifically-postulated laws of nature...
horror filmHorror films are movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, horror and terror from viewers. Their plots frequently involve themes of death, the supernatural or mental illness...
, loosely based on the popular
Doom series of video games created by
id Softwareid Software is an American video game development company from Mesquite, Texas. The company was founded in 1991 by four members of the computer company Softdisk: programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian Carmack...
. It was directed by
Andrzej BartkowiakAndrzej Bartkowiak, A.S.C. is a Polish cinematographer and director.In the early 1980s, Bartkowiak was cinematographer on three films that received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture: The Verdict, Terms of Endearment, and Prizzi's Honor.Most recently, Bartkowiak teamed up with Ashok...
and was released in the
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
on October 21, 2005 and in the
United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
on December 2, 2005.
On February 7, 2006, the Unrated DVD version of
Doom was released. The unrated DVD has a running time of 1 hour 53 minutes, 8 minutes longer than the rated release.
Doom was released on
Blu-ray DiscBlu-ray Disc is an optical disc storage medium designed to supersede the standard DVD format. Its main uses are for storing high-definition video, PlayStation 3 games, and other data, with up to 25 GB per single layered, and 50 GB per dual layered disc...
on February 10, 2009.
After option deals with
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and
Columbia PicturesColumbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...
lapsed,
id Softwareid Software is an American video game development company from Mesquite, Texas. The company was founded in 1991 by four members of the computer company Softdisk: programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian Carmack...
signed a deal with
Warner Bros.Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. (also known as Warner Bros. Pictures, or simply Warner Bros.—the shortened form of the former official, sometimes still used, formal corporate name: Warner Brothers
with the stipulation that the movie be greenlitTo greenlight a project is to give permission or a go ahead to move forward with a project. In the context of the movie and TV businesses, to greenlight something is to formally approve its production finance, thereby allowing the project to move forward from the development phase to pre-production...
within 12 months. Warner Bros. lost the rights, which were subsequently given back to Universal Pictures who started production in 2004.
In an interview with executive producer John WellsJohn Marcum Wells is a theater and television producer, writer and director. He is best known for his role as executive producer and show runner of the television series ER, Third Watch, and The West Wing. His company, John Wells Productions, is currently based at Warner Bros. studios in Burbank,...
, he stated that a second film would be put into production if the first was a success at the box officeA box office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to a venue. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop, through an unblocked hole through a wall, or at a wicket...
. Ticket sales for the opening weekend totaled more than US$The United States dollar is the unit of currency of the United States. The U.S. dollar is normally abbreviated as the dollar sign, $, or as USD or US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies and from others that use the $ symbol. It is divided into 100 cents .The U.S...
15.3 million, but promptly dropped to $4.2 million in its second weekend.
Plot
The film is set on MarsMars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after Mars, the Roman god of war. It is also referred to as the "Red Planet" because of its reddish appearance, due to iron oxide prevalent on its surface....
in the year 2046, in the Union Aerospace CorporationThe Union Aerospace Corporation is a fictional conglomerate focused on military-industrial research in id Software's science fiction video game series Doom. The corporation is depicted to be involved in advanced weapons development, biological research, space exploration and teleportation...
(UAC)-owned Olduvai Research Facility where scientists are running for their lives. One by one, they are caught and pulled screaming into the darkness by some unseen monster. Carmack (Robert Russell-Politics:*Bob Russell , British Liberal Democrat MP for Colchester*Bob Russell , former leader of the Liberal Party of Alberta and municipal councillor in St. Albert, Alberta*Robert B...
), escapes into a sealed room and sends an SOS rescue signal warning about a Level 5 security breach in the top security lab. While he is saying this the door behind him is being torn open. He turns around and sees something through the gap in the door.
On Earth, a team of eight Marines have their leave interrupted by Sarge (Dwayne Johnson), who has received a call from Olduvai. The Mars station is immediately quarantined and the 85 UAC employees on Mars are not allowed to return to Earth. As the men suit up, Sarge pulls aside one of his men, John "Reaper" Grimm (Karl UrbanKarl-Heinz Urban is an actor from New Zealand.He is best known for playing Éomer in the second and third installments of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and Dr Leonard McCoy in the 2009 film Star Trek...
), and asks him not to go because his sister is on the station. Reaper suits up anyway, and their team is deployed to Mars via a teleportationTeleportation is supposed to be the transfer of matter from one point to another, more or less instantaneously, either by paranormal means or through technological means. Teleportation has been widely utilized in works of science fiction...
device called the Ark, located at Area 51Area 51 is a nickname for a military base that is located in the southern portion of Nevada in the western United States . Situated at its center, on the southern shore of Groom Lake, is a large secretive military airfield...
. The Ark was discovered in 2026 (as told by opening credits narrator Rosamund Pike), and for twenty years scientists have been trying to discover who built it, and why. Upon arriving at the Mars research facility of the Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC), they meet an early victim of the Ark system, Pinky (Dexter FletcherDexter Fletcher , an English actor. He is best known for his television roles in such shows as the dramedy Hotel Babylon and, earlier in his career, the children's show Press Gang.-Personal:...
), who "went to one galaxy while his ass went to another" (his lower torso now a 2-wheeled engine resembling a Segway) during an Ark teleportation event. They meet up with Dr. Samantha Grimm (Rosamund PikeRosamund Pike is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her portrayals of Bond villainess Miranda Frost in Die Another Day and Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice.-Early life:...
), Reaper's sister, who explains the situation.
Their mission is simple: eliminate the threat, secure the facility, and retrieve UAC property. John converses with his sister and learns that they have discovered humanoid remains on Mars that contain a 24th chromosome that made the creatures superhuman, invulnerable to disease and with the ability to heal from injuries near-instantly. They set off and quickly locate Dr. Carmack, who is mentally deranged to the point of tearing off his own ear. They return him to the lab, and Dr. Grimm tries to sedate him. Meanwhile, the Marines continue to explore the facility, encountering strange creatures intent on killing them. One of the creatures, an Imp, succeeds in slaying Goat (Ben DanielsBen Daniels is a British actor. A graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art , he has taken on roles in numerous productions...
), but is promptly killed and brought to Dr. Grimm. From blood samples taken from two hostile creatures, it is revealed that the things used to be human. Dr. Grimm determines that their genetic makeup has been altered by the addition of the Martian 24th chromosome; however, the injected chromosome seems to "choose" whether it causes the person to be superhuman or a monster, apparently able to determine on a genetic level whether a person has the capability to be truly evil. Consequently, the chromosome is classified as an infectionAn infection is the detrimental colonization of a host organism by a foreign species. In an infection, the infecting organism seeks to utilize the host's resources to multiply, usually at the expense of the host. The infecting organism, or pathogen, interferes with the normal functioning of the...
, which is later spread by the projectile tongues of those infected. The Marines discover that Dr. Carmack deliberately injected the chromosome into an "evil" subject (prisoner Curtis Stahl, a multiple murderer), who later transformed and broke loose.
Through multiple attacks by the Imps, the squad is reduced to just Sarge, Reaper, The Kid (Al WeaverAlex "Al" Weaver is a British actor.Weaver studied acting at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His first paid theater role was in Trevor Nunn's 2004 production of Hamlet, at the Old Vic theatre in London...
), Duke (Raz Adoti) and Dr. Grimm. The surviving team members realize that despite their best efforts, a Hell Knight has escaped through the Ark to the Earth due to Pinky's refusal to trigger a grenade Mac left with him to destroy the Ark. Before leaving, Sarge takes the Bio Force Gun (a stylistic reincarnation of the BFG 9000 of Doom fame), dubbing it the "Big Fucking Gun," as an in-joke (the generally accepted meaning for the acronym in the Doom games).
On Earth, the group finds the UAC facility full of bodies. Sarge orders his men to kill anything alive in order to prevent the infection from spreading. The Kid finds a group of living, non-infected humans and reports this to Sarge. The Kid resists Sarge's order to kill the civilians and is promptly executed by Sarge for insubordination. Pinky reappears, aiming a pistol at Sarge, but is dragged off by a monster.
Zombies attack, killing Duke and dragging Sarge through a malfunctioning bulletproof screen. Reaper is hit by a ricochet. To save his life, Samantha injects Reaper with Chomosome 24. Instead of becoming a monster, Reaper awakens as a superhuman, with all the enhanced strength and healing abilities that come with it.
Following Reaper's transformation and the discovery that Samantha is missing, the movie takes on a first-person shooterFirst-person shooter is a video game genre which centers the gameplay around gun- and projectile weapon-based combat through the first person perspective; i.e., the player experiences the action through the eyes of a protagonist. Generally speaking, the first-person shooter shares common traits...
perspective, reminiscent of the game on which the film is based. In a span of a few minutes, Reaper slays an array of monsters, including Pinky, who has mutated into, appropriately enough, a Demon, commonly referred to by fans as "pinkies".
Switching back to a standard camera angle, Reaper emerges at the exit of the facility. Bodies are scattered everywhere, and a melted blue hole in the wall, the mark of a BFG blast, is still cooling. Near this hole, Reaper encounters Sarge and an unconscious Dr. Grimm lying on the floor. Reaper asks Sarge what happened to the non-infected survivors, to which he casually replies that he "took care of that problem". Reaper then notices the same injury on Sarge that Dr. Carmack had before he turned into a Imp, something Sarge has been hiding up til this point. After a badly injured Dr. Grimm crawls to safety, the two Marines face off. After ineffectively using the last of their ammunition, the two engage in hand-to-hand combat, which favours Sarge. As Sarge holds Reaper by the neck against the wall, a closeup up of Sarge's eye shows it becoming blood-shot. When the camera zooms out, Sarge is shown further transformed, with demonic features such as prominent skull structure, sharp teeth and red eyes. Reaper prevails by throwing Sarge into the Ark, followed by a ST grenade. Sarge and the Ark are obliterated. Reaper then retrieves Sam, who is just visibly conscious but unable to stand or walk, and holds her in his arms as he uses the elevator to return to the Earth's surface.
Cast
- Karl Urban
Karl-Heinz Urban is an actor from New Zealand.He is best known for playing Éomer in the second and third installments of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and Dr Leonard McCoy in the 2009 film Star Trek...
as Staff SergeantStaff Sergeant is a rank of non-commissioned officer used in several countries.The origin of the name is that they were part of the staff of a British army regiment and paid at that level rather than as a member of a battalion or company.-Australia:...
John "Reaper" Grimm: Grimm is the son of UAC scientists who were killed in an accident during the early excavation of a Martian dig site. He abandoned his scientific heritage and joined the military to forget about this personal disaster. He is the twin brother (younger by two minutes) of Dr. Samantha Grimm and the only squad member to survive the film.
- Dwayne Johnson as Gunnery Sergeant
Gunnery Sergeant is the seventh enlisted rank in the United States Marine Corps, just above Staff Sergeant and below Master Sergeant and First Sergeant, and is a staff non-commissioned officer . It has a pay grade of E-7....
Asher "Sarge" Mahonin: The leader of the squad.
- Raz Adoti as Sergeant
Sergeant is a rank used in some form by most militaries, police forces, and other uniformed organizations around the world. Its origins are the Latin serviens, "one who serves", through the French term Sergent....
Gregory "Duke" Schofield: Sergeant Schofield is obsessed with two things - girls and games. He is the best friend of Destroyer and seems to be a big hit for the ladies & immediately develops a crush on Sam.
- Deobia Oparei as Sergeant Gannon "Destroyer" Roark: The heavy weapons specialist of the squad. His best friend is Duke. He uses a minigun.
- Yao Chin
Yao Chin is a British film, stage, television actor and presenter. He is best known for his role as Mac in the Hollywood film Doom.Chin was educated at the prestigious Dulwich College and London School of Economics...
as Private First ClassIn many armed forces in the world, Private First Class is a rank held by junior enlisted persons.- United States :In the U.S. Army, Private First Class is the third lowest enlisted rank, just above Private and below Corporal or Specialist in the Army, and is equivalent to NATO Grade OR-3. In the U.S...
Katsuhiko Kumanosuke "Mac" Takahashi: The squad's technical expert, he left university to join RRTS.
- Al Weaver
Alex "Al" Weaver is a British actor.Weaver studied acting at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His first paid theater role was in Trevor Nunn's 2004 production of Hamlet, at the Old Vic theatre in London...
as PrivateA Private is a soldier of the lowest military rank . The term dates from the Middle Ages, where privates were known as "private soldiers" who were either hired, conscripted, or feudalized into service by a nobleman forming an army...
Mark "The Kid" Dantalian: The youngest member of the squad, on his first mission.
- Richard Brake
Richard Brake is a Welsh/American actor.-Early life:Brake was born in Ystrad Mynach, Hengoed, Wales and raised in the United States...
as CorporalCorporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and also by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4. The word is probably derived from a medieval Italian phrase capo corporale, meaning "head of a body "...
Dean Portman: Portman is the trash talker of the squad.
- Ben Daniels
Ben Daniels is a British actor. A graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art , he has taken on roles in numerous productions...
as Corporal Eric "Goat" Fantom: A senior member of the squad. Fiercely religious, he is prone to quoting scripture and acts of self-harm in response to his own sins.
- Rosamund Pike
Rosamund Pike is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her portrayals of Bond villainess Miranda Frost in Die Another Day and Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice.-Early life:...
as Dr. Samantha Grimm: A scientist on Mars, and John Grimm's twin sister.
- Dexter Fletcher
Dexter Fletcher , an English actor. He is best known for his television roles in such shows as the dramedy Hotel Babylon and, earlier in his career, the children's show Press Gang.-Personal:...
as Marcus "Pinky" Pinzerowski : A technician on Mars assigned to coordinate the squad's communications. Becomes involved with the action against his will.
- Robert Russell
Robert Russell is an actor, notable for his role as Dr. Wellington Yueh in the Sci Fi channel's 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune....
as Dr. Todd Carmack: The base's chief scientist.
- Vladislav Dyntera as Dr. Steve Willits: Another scientist.
- Daniel York as Lieutenant
Lieutenant is a military, naval, paramilitary, fire service, emergency medical services or police officer rank....
Hunegs: The leader of Mars security.
- Sara Houghton as Dr. Jenna Willits: Dr. Willits' wife.
- Brian Steele
Brian Steele is an American actor who is best known for playing monsters and creatures.-Filmography:* Terminator Salvation - T-600 * Underworld: Rise of the Lycans - Big Lycan...
as Hell Knight (Baron of Hell)/Curtis Stahl.
- Doug Jones
Doug Jones is an American film and television actor best known to science fiction, fantasy, and horror fans for his various roles playing non-human characters, often in heavy makeup, in films and television series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth and Fantastic Four: Rise...
as Carmack Imp: Dr. Carmack in his transformed state.
- Ian Hughes
Ian Hughes is a professional footballer whose last club was Bacup Borough. He plays as a defender and is a former Welsh under-21 international.-Club career:Hughes began his career at Bury where he was in the youth team...
as Sanford Crosby, UAC's public relations representative.
Production
The film's producer, John Wells, admitted in an interview that "many" video game movie adaptations had "sucked." He revealed that the crew was able to get "a lot of financial support from Universal" and that it wasn't "done on the cheap." Wells also revealed that the Doom movie would have a sequence shot in a first-person perspective because "Doom without that would be a miscarriage of justice!"
Wells also revealed that "we were all very concerned that we make sure that it was exactly the kind of experience that we [the crew] remembered so fondly from the game: turning the lights off at midnight, cranking it up and scaring the hell out of yourself!"
Wells further stated that there is a balance between CGIComputer-generated imagery is the application of the field of computer graphics or, more specifically, 3D computer graphics to special effects in films, television programs, commercials, simulators and simulation generally, and printed media...
and prosthetics in the Doom movie, and he, for the first time as a producer, admitted that "we didn't wanna rely on the CGI. Those effects still haven't quite got to the level where you fully believe it — certainly not for long periods of time," and that the crew used Stan WinstonStanley Winston was an American visual effects supervisor, make-up artist, and film director. He was best known for his work in the Terminator series, the Jurassic Park series, Aliens, the Predator series, Iron Man and Edward Scissorhands...
's Creature Shop and that his work is only "enhanced with CGI." He also admitted that "if you rely too much on CGI it can look cheesy: it doesn't quite work. It'll get there, but it's not there yet."
Wells also stated that the crew insisted that the Doom movie be made into an R-rated movie and that he didn't "think it was possible to do a PG-13 version—and that's been the mistake made by a couple of other computer game movies," and that "a lot of studios that didn't want to do it. But we made a conscious decision that we'd prefer not to make it any other way."
Wells also revealed that if this first Doom film is successful, a second one could be made, and he revealed that "we certainly have some ideas for the next one, if there is gonna be one. We'll have to wait and see: the audience will have to tell us ..."
One of the most noteworthy aspects of the film is a short sequence near the end of the film where the camera follows the progress of Grimm from a first-person perspective in homage to the original game. In the words of Karl UrbanKarl-Heinz Urban is an actor from New Zealand.He is best known for playing Éomer in the second and third installments of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and Dr Leonard McCoy in the 2009 film Star Trek...
, the actor who plays Reaper:
- "In some ways, it makes cinematic history in that, for the first time, the audience becomes the hero of the film."
- "When we go into FPS, the audience is doing the rampage, the audience is doing the work and that is so cool. It’s insane!"
Production history
- November 27, 2003 — Computer Gaming World printed an article on their website regarding the Doom movie. It states that Warner Bros. is indeed working on the Doom movie and has placed it on the fast track. A revised script was submitted to id Software and approved; John Wells (producer of ER
ER is an American medical drama series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 1994 to April 2009. It is set primarily in the emergency room of fictional County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment in...
) and Lorenzo di BonaventuraLorenzo di Bonaventura is an Italian-American film producer. He spent the 1990s as an executive at Warner Bros. Pictures, eventually rising to President of Worldwide Production. His tenure at Warner Bros. included discovering and shepherding The Matrix into production. His production company di...
(who introduced The MatrixThe Matrix is a science fiction-action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski and starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving...
to Warner Bros.) have signed on to work on the Doom movie. Concept art and storyboards have been drawn by Federico D'Alessandro, who has worked on various movies, music videoA music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music/song. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. Although the origins of music videos go back much further, they came into their own in the...
s, and video game covers and advertisements.
- May 15, 2004 — the Associated Press
The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
(AP) released a news article regarding video game to movie adaptations that can be found here: Hollywood Interest in Video Games Grows that mentions the Doom movie. Here's an excerpt that mentions the Doom movie: "Soon, more blockbuster game franchises, such as Halo and Doom, are expected to become the basis of movies."
- June 2, 2004 — Variety reported that Warner Bros. has lost the rights to Doom and Universal Studios has acquired rights to Doom and Variety confirms that Doom will be based on Doom 3.
- August 9, 2004 — A Doom 3 article in an issue of Time Magazine mentions that Universal is set to film the Doom movie in Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Nicknames for Prague have included "the mother of cities" , "city of a hundred spires", or Stověžatá Praha in Czech and "the golden city" or Zlaté město in Czech.Situated on the River Vltava in central Bohemia, Prague has been the...
in the winter of 2004–2005.
- August 10, 2004 — The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter is an American trade publication of the entertainment industry. During the last century it was one of the two major publications — the other being Variety. Today both newspapers cover what is now more broadly called the entertainment industry.- History :The Hollywood Reporter...
released an article that mentioned release dates for 8 movies and the third movie listed was the Doom movie. It states that Doom will have a wide release on August 5, 2005.
- August 15, 2004 — The Hollywood Reporter reported that John Wells Productions is currently in pre-production for the Doom movie.
- August 18, 2004 — a website, Box Office Prophets, made the Doom movie project their movie of the day and they list the release date for the Doom movie, August 5, 2005. The article also confirms that Universal has Doom on a production schedule of Winter 2004–2005 in Prague's Barrandov Studios
Barrandov Studios is a famous set of film studios in Prague, Czech Republic. It is the largest film studio in the country and one of the largest in Europe.Several of the movies filmed there won Academy Awards...
. The article can be found here: Doom. The planned release date was mentioned as August 5, 2005.
- September 15, 2004 — major news has been revealed by both Variety and The Hollywood Reporter on the Doom movie. Karl Urban
Karl-Heinz Urban is an actor from New Zealand.He is best known for playing Éomer in the second and third installments of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and Dr Leonard McCoy in the 2009 film Star Trek...
has been cast for the Doom movie as the star, John Grimm, a leader of a special ops team. It has been revealed that he will dealing not only with alien demons but also the organization known as the United Aerospace Corp that is responsible for the death of his parents. It has also been revealed that Enda McCallion has dropped out of the project and PolishPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe . Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
director Andrzej BartkowiakAndrzej Bartkowiak, A.S.C. is a Polish cinematographer and director.In the early 1980s, Bartkowiak was cinematographer on three films that received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture: The Verdict, Terms of Endearment, and Prizzi's Honor.Most recently, Bartkowiak teamed up with Ashok...
has signed on to be the director. It has also been revealed that production will start in mid-October with an August 5, 2005 release date. Also noted is that Universal Pictures is talking to The Rock regarding a role in the Doom movie.
- September 22, 2004 — The Hollywood Reporter reported that Universal Pictures has cast Rosamund Pike opposite of Karl Urban as a scientist named Samantha.
Reception
Doom received mostly negative reviews by critics. It has a 20% "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and 17% in the Top Critics section. Roger Ebert says, "Doom is like some kid came over and is using your computer and won't let you play." Richard Roeper has also stated, "The performances are awful, the action sequences are impossible to follow, the violence is gratuitous, the lighting is bad and I have my doubts that catering truck was even up to snuff on this project." One apparently good review came from Richard James Havis from The Hollywood Reporter, stating, "There's so little to go wrong that those who like their entertainment mindless and violent will find little fault." In 2009, TimeTime is an American newsmagazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong. As of 2009, Time no longer publishes a Canadian advertiser edition...
listed the film on their list of top ten worst video games movies.
The response from fans of the video game was lukewarm. Some expressed disappointment and outrage because the film did not follow the plot of the game, as the games dealt with an invasion from hell instead of a virus, and over the movie's failure to reproduce the game's most essential quality: the killing of large numbers of enemies. The film has a rating of 5.2/10 on IMDb. It did well on its opening weekend, taking in $15.5 million. However, the final gross of the film was only $28.2 million domestically and almost $65.9 million worldwide, with a budget of $60 million.