How hard is it to screw up a movie adaptation of Doom?

[Queasy]

Hollywood is capable of anything.

The basic premise of the film places the characters in the year 2145, the same year as the recently released DOOM 3 videogame. Forgoing the Martian setting from the game, a group of marines is sent to a distant (unspecified) planet to secure a science lab under attack from creatures of unknown origin.

? Why the change from Mars? Why 'creatures of unknown origin'? Why even bother to make those changes?

Pics in the link of the movie btw.

 

[Quixfire]

Because it is Hollywood.

Edit: Should I play the game before watching the movie?

 

[ggnl]

As with most game to movie adaptations, it's pretty hard not to screw up.

 

[whistleclient]

i disagree. the screwy thing with most video games is that a lot of them borrow from sci fi movies. example: the head crabs from Half Life are just like the ones in Alien/Aliens.

so when the game's successful and they try to adapt it back into a movie, it becomes a very unoriginal movie unless changes are made. then gamers complain that it wasn't faithful.

look at doom. "hell unleashed on earth"? not a very original idea. i mean, even "Little Nicky" had that premise! think about it: what are the actual story elements of doom? a space marine arrives at a moon base where hell is unleashed. he has to fight his way out. and that's it. he kills a monster. he kills a bigger monster. he kills a bigger monster... and the whole thing gets boring in about 20 minutes.

i feel like either way doom will suck and it's not "hollywood's fault". it's a simple lack of a good story.

 

[nakedfrog]

From what I heard, they're going with the ever-classic mutagenic agent that starts turning people into funky creatures instead of tying it into the Hell storyline.

 

[biostud]

Why even call it doom if everything is changed (Except for the obvious brand ofcourse)

 

[whistleclient]

Originally posted by: Queasy
Hollywood is capable of anything.

The basic premise of the film places the characters in the year 2145, the same year as the recently released DOOM 3 videogame. Forgoing the Martian setting from the game, a group of marines is sent to a distant (unspecified) planet to secure a science lab under attack from creatures of unknown origin.

? Why the change from Mars? Why 'creatures of unknown origin'? Why even bother to make those changes?

Pics in the link of the movie btw.

to answer your original question:

setting it on mars means spending a ton of money to create mars sets, rather than spending that money on action scenes and monster effects.

also, i'm sure the movie "Ghosts of Mars" had some effect on their decision making.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: tangent1138
to answer your original question:

setting it on mars means spending a ton of money to create mars sets, rather than spending that money on action scenes and monster effects.

also, i'm sure the movie "Ghosts of Mars" had some effect on their decision making.

What sets would they have to build that would be more extravagent than the current sets? Pretty much all of Doom takes place inside a military science complex.

 

[Qwest]

i heard this movie got pushed back for a while. (much like the game)

 

[Cleaner]

Maybe it will be better than the game.

 

[Gravity]

I'm interested. I'll wait till it's out on dvd though.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Qwest
i heard this movie got pushed back for a while. (much like the game)

It was pushed from the summer movie dumping ground (August) to a pre-Halloween release. Which actually made sense to me.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Queasy
How hard is it to screw up a movie adaptation of Doom?

Not hard at all.

- M4H

 

[whistleclient]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: tangent1138
to answer your original question:

setting it on mars means spending a ton of money to create mars sets, rather than spending that money on action scenes and monster effects.

also, i'm sure the movie "Ghosts of Mars" had some effect on their decision making.

What sets would they have to build that would be more extravagent than the current sets? Pretty much all of Doom takes place inside a military science complex.

if it's inside, then why do you care if it's on mars? but if you set it on mars, then take advantage of mars (example: the outdoor scene in Total Recall). otherwise you're spending money creating digital backgrounds that you don't need. i suspect they realized it wasn't essential to the story so it would've been wasted time.

 

[rezinn]

Looks like a crappy movie. The rock being in it only makes it 10 times worse. I'll skip this one until I can see it for free.

Not spending money on mars is stupid too. They're wasting their payroll on some very bad actors, why not make the story correct?