Doom Movie Set to Be Released This October

by Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 07/24/2005 | 09:33 PM ]

GameCloud has posted a coverage of Comic-Con Doom movie panel. The organizers showed a couple of short trailer-teasers and also held a Q&A with actors Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Karl Urban, producer John Wells and Lorenzo DiBonaventure as well as id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead. Many were afraid that Doom movie was going to be a “yet another crappy movie-video game adaptation”, but the panel was aimed to show that such expectations were premature.

“We got two clips from the movie itself; the first is the upcoming 90 second teaser trailer that officially reveals that the movie version of id Software’s first person shooter will take place on Mars rather than an unnamed planet as had been talked about in the past. The teaser trailer had a lot of quick cuts of The Rock; Karl Urban and the rest of the cast along with brief looks at the monsters, the environment (and they look right out of Doom 3, by the way; right down to the computer screens on the base) and battles with the monsters. The second clip is the one that got the most reaction; part of the first person shooter sequence featuring Urban’s character,” GameCloud web-site reports.

“The movie will at one point have a viewpoint just like the game, right down to the weapons loading animation. The sequence was, by the producer’s own admission, still incomplete in terms of visual effects and other elements but watching the clip feels like you are watching the game in action, from surprise monster appearance in corridors to shooting parts of the environment to fry the creatures,” informs GameCloud.

The release date for the movie is set on October 21, 2005.

• GameCloud: Doom Movie Comic-Con Panel Report.