Good news for the Doom movie

[Icarusintel]

http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=20755
wow, not too bad at all, sounds a LOT better than what we were all fearing, and the FPS scene sounds insane

However, at the panel today they revealed some surprises... Id Software has been involved since the beginning, the producers, filmmakers and stars all wanted to make a movie that respected the source material and the studio was willing to put it out R-rated.
Confirmed in the movie: MARS! IMPS! HELLKNIGHT! THE BARON! PINKY DEMONS! GORE!

:thumbs:

 

[A True Canadian]

That is good news. But why'd they release information about plot and character changes in the months before this if they were keeping things the same anyway?

 

[DEATH eVADER]

FPS sequence sounds intiguing

 

[Harryz]

From Comic-Con in the US:

-Karl Urban is the main character, not The Rock, who plays Sarge. The Rock liked that character better.
-The Rock liked the character of Sarge better because he could explore his "darker side" and because his character "has a great twist at the end."
-Karl and The Rock both played the original DOOM as well as its sequels, especially DOOM 3.
-The Rock on the film: "It's unapologetic as hell, faithful and gory."
-The Demons and Monsters are based off of the creatures in DOOM 3.
-They recreated sets directly from the game, like corridors and labs and even made the computer screens in the movie have the same style as what's on the computer screens in the game.
-Why The Rock wanted to do the DOOM movie: "I realized I could shoot the BFG."
-All the Army guys are were trained by SAS honcho Tom McAdams.
-The BFG was huge, according to The Rock.
-Stan Winston created most of the monsters, with the creative team behind the movie deciding against overusing CG.
-The monsters are big, most between 6 and 9 feet tall (and these are practical effects).
-"The intensity of the game is in the movie," said The Rock. From minute 5 we're there. Non-stop train ride to Hell."
-The young screenwriter Dave Callaham is very protective of the game.
-Lorenzo on the plot: He wouldn't go into it much but he did say, "A team on Mars chasing real evil, bad things."
-When pressed about differences between the games and the movie, Lorenzo said that we'll see how the monsters came about (Maybe this means no hell? Not sure.) and the evil little buggers get a chance to **** up the Earth. Interesting...

This is a 3 minute clip that was shown...

The clip begins with Karl Urban a little beat up, sitting on the floor with his back to a cabinet. There's a girl in the room with him. He falls and goes unconscious (at first I thought he had died) as the camera pushes into his eye. After a bright flash we're in Urban's POV. He gets to his feet, looks around the room. It's empty. No girl. He walks to a mirror and we see Urban (reflection), wiping a line of blood from his cheek. He locks and loads a gun and leaves the room.
This is where it really got me geeky. I love FPS (First Person Shooters) games and that love started with DOOM and Wolfenstein back in the day. So, it stands to reason that I loved the clip that followed because it was all done as a live action first person shooter.

The sounds, the score (temp, natch), the lighting and the sets were all straight out of the game. From the second he walks out the door, you hear the creatures and zombies. He comes upon the zombies first, taking them out with shots to the chest, then head. The gun is lower right screen the whole time. After a zombie or creature is shot, the gun ducks below frame and the reloading sound happens.
The camera movement, the strife moves... all looks great... a real live action video game sequence. It's pretty specific in the details... like the zombies are fairly easy to kill, while the Imps take a few more shots to kill and the big clawed ****ers take a lot of ammo... matter of fact, in the video, the first time we see one of these guys he gets about 5 seconds of ammo pumped into him before the gun tilts over and shoots the explosive tank next to it covering the demon in flames. The demon claws at itself as if trying to tear at the flames.

There are jump moments here that are great, like turning a corner, looking to one direction, seeing a blood-covered closed door, turning in the other direction and seeing nothing... walking down the corridor, then turning back to see a zombie right there. A quick shot from the shotgun (it changes from automatic rifle to shotgun about halfway through the scene) takes his head right off.

Most importantly the atmosphere survived. The scene shown was more actiony, but even here you can see how dark the corridors are, how the tight the space is...
I was really shocked. This panel completely turned me around. The whole movie might be bullshit, but this whole sequence was kick-ass... My favorite part... after shooting a ton of Imps and reloading, the camera is moving down a dark corridor. It pans casually to the left to see a vague shape and sends off one shot in a knee-jerk way. After a beat we see that the shape was Karl Urban's face. It was the reflection of the POV and there's a bullet mark on the steel or whatever the reflective surface was. I've done that a dozen times while playing. That made me smile.

The clip ended with one of the big ****ers swiping at us and hitting us. You hear Urban grunting and then he's knocked off the ledge (still all in POV). He grabs a grenade (looked more like a timed mine from the GoldenEye game), places it on the floor and rolls out of the way as the big ****er jumps down. The explosive goes off and the left hand blocks some of the exploding creature as it comes up to block the debris and blinding flash.

 

[Lucid]

STAN WINSTON DID THE MONSTER DESIGN FOR THE MOVIE?!
YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!
...sorry for the caps...

Oooh, god!
-bumps this movie up to the top of must-sees-

 

[Harryz]

STAN WINSTON DID THE MONSTER DESIGN FOR THE MOVIE?!
YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!
...sorry for the caps...

Oooh, god!
-bumps this movie up to the top of must-sees-

My thoughts exactly. When I first heard about this movie, I criticised it, but, I have to admit, the more I hear about it, the better it sounds.

 

[mortiz]

http://media.filmforce.ign.com/media/490/490104/vids_1.html

The DooM Comicon footage.

 

[G-Dub]

Happy days! Thank god! This is starting to sound like a decent movie.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

sounds promising
hopefully they do some justice for the game and the games turned movies genre.

 

[jondy]

This sounds awesome.

 

[Shodan]

Whoa, I'm glad about this.

All the monsters (Stan Winston ) and the BFG this might actually be good!

(Do you think Id saw our complaints thread? )

 

[Agent.M]

Only thing I really dont like is that the monsters arent from hell that is a big part of doom the relationship with hell itself...shame this is gonna turn into another mutant/genetic type of movie how many of them do we have already why dont they just stick to the hell roots BLAH!:|

 

[Shodan]

Only thing I really dont like is that the monsters arent from hell that is a big part of doom the relationship with hell itself...shame this is gonna turn into another mutant/genetic type of movie how many of them do we have already why dont they just stick to the hell roots BLAH!:|

What?

Did you read it at all?

It said the movie would be an 'R' because the monsters do come from hell....:|

 

[G-Dub]

Anyone got a link to the video of the FPS scene? Sounds pretty cool.

The link furthur up is an IGN insider one

 

[Asuka]

Nice link, hate reading interviews like that. Listening/Watching is so much better.

 

[Absinthe]

Anyone got a link to the video of the FPS scene? Sounds pretty cool.

The link furthur up is an IGN insider one

Concurred. I'd prefer not to register with an obelisk of shite.

 

[Agent.M]

What?

Did you read it at all?

It said the movie would be an 'R' because the monsters do come from hell....:|

And where did you read that?? I read "creatures, reminicent of demons/hell/zombies, are genetic mistakes/mutations" and "the movie will have all the intesity and gore of the game hence the R rating" not because the creatures are "from hell"...Im sorry but could you provide some backing for your statement?