Doom (film): Difference between revisions

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After option deals with Universal Pictures and Columbia Pictures expired, id Software signed a deal with Warner Bros. with the stipulation that the movie will be greenlit 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 Wells, he stated that a second film would be put into production if the first was a success at the box office. Ticket sales for the opening weekend totaled more than US$15.3 million, but promptly dropped to $4.2 million in its second weekend and the story for a sequel was never written.

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* [[Ankle Drag]]: {{spoiler|Duke}} is killed by an especially gruesome version of this.

* [[Asshole Victim]]: Arguably {{spoiler|Sarge}}. Up until he was infected, he really was just following the rules like any good soldier. [[Grey and Gray Morality|Whether or not the UAC's rules should have been followed is another story]].

** {{spoiler|Portman}}, far less arguably.

* [[Bald Black Leader Guy]]: Sarge.

* [[Black and White Morality]]: Chromosome 24 seems to have this. It {{spoiler|turns good people into supermen and bad people into monsters}}. Furthermore, the mutants choose who to infect based on this, preferring to infect {{spoiler|bad people, to grow their numbers and not give their prey an advantage}}.

** It's worth noting that {{spoiler|Sarge}} was infected, but remained human/superhuman for an extended period of time. He only began turning during his final fight with {{spoiler|Reaper}}, when he tried to impale {{spoiler|Reaper}} through the mouth with a metal spike. It seems that {{spoiler|Sarge's}} morality tipped to black during that moment, and Chromosome 24 {{spoiler|shifted him from superhuman to monster}}.

** But it used to be far worse, subject to ''[[Portal Cut|turbulence]]''.

* [[Undignified Death]]: {{spoiler|Portman}}. Granted, he wasn't USING the toilet, but yeah.

* [[The Virus]]: Chromosome 24. Visible in the blood, and transferred via parasitic tongue of the mutated.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: Solid budget, big-name draw, and despite its flaws, the movie is pretty good. But it has next to NOTHING to do with the actual Doom storyline. If they made it about demons from hell instead of genetics, who knows, this might have been the first ever decent movie made about a videogame.

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