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The first few details have emerged about Doom: the Movie, "loosely" based,
of course, on the iconic first person shooter game of the early Nineties.
Dark Horizons has ten photos from the film, due for release on 21st October
in the US, and a week later in Blighty.

The film stars WWE wrestling star-turned-actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as
Sarge, and there are a handful of other actors you may recognise from recent
films. New Zealander Karl Urban (The Bourne Supremacy, Chronicles of
Riddick, Lord of the Rings) plays the lead character of John Grimm,
Bond-totty Rosamund Pike plays "Samantha", and North London's own Dexter
Fletcher (Lock Stock, Band of Brother, Deadwood, Layer Cake) will play
"Pinky".

The film will be Andrzej Bartkowiak's fourth as director, having previously
directed Jet Li in Romeo Must Die and Cradle 2 the Grave, and Steven Seagal
in Exit Wounds. If that doesn't sound like much of a resume, Bartkowiak's
record as a Cinematographer has somewhat greater credibility. Thirty two
films, from Terms of Endearment in 1983, the Michael Douglas classic Falling
Down, and a string of Nineties action flicks: Speed, Species, US Marshals
and Lethal Weapon 4.

Of more concern is this the fact that for the credited writer, Dave
Callaham, Doom will be his first feature film. Already, there is a petition
of some 1700 fans concerned about key changes to the established Doom
Universe. While the film follows the basic plot of the game - an invasion of
an off-world military installation, the location is not Mars, Deimos, or
Phobos but "Olduvai". Sadly, the film is due out in three months, so it
would seem the protests have fallen on deaf ears.

It will be interesting to see the Box Office results for the movie come
opening weekend. Universal and Warner Bros are gambling US$70 million on
what promises to be a CG-enhanced action-fest. Yet will gamers leave their
lairs to go and see it? Ignoring those who will download it illegally
anyway, it is hard to imagine gamers getting excited about this film.

Full article can be found @ source link.

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Seriously, you might want to give me that apple back. I mean look at your
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