It looks like Universal Pictures are going to just pretend last year’s Doom: Annihilation didn’t happen. That movie was supposed to course-correct from the 2005 Doom, which was also not much cop. But hey, third time’s the charm right? Now it seems that Universal is finally planning to do it right – instead of trying to crowbar the basics of the game’s setting into a crappy Aliens ripoff, they’re just going to do a big-screen adaptation of the original DOOM.
Our sources – the same ones who told us a new Scream movie is in development and Han was returning in Fast & Furious 9 – told us yesterday that the wheels are turning on a new project that’ll be entirely separate from the previous two. My bet is that they’re going to take a lot of inspiration from the most recent games in the series: 2016’s Doom and 2020’s Doom: Eternal. These have succeeded because they’re ultraviolent, goofy fun: you play as the near invulnerable Doom Slayer, who pinballs around the place carving up demons in ever more creative ways to a heavy metal soundtrack.
Now we’re hearing that Hobbs & Shaw and The Crown‘s Vanessa Kirby is being considered for a role. Now, there aren’t many women in the Doom franchise but I think she makes sense for playing Dr Olivia Pierce, the main villain of the 2016 reboot. Pierce is a scientific researcher studying Hell in order to solve a human energy crisis. During the course of her studies she makes a deal with a demon lord: humans get to harness the power of hell and in exchange, demons get fitted with cybernetic enhancements. Everyone’s a winner!
Well, they are until hell begins invading our universe and cyber-enhanced demons begin pouring through portals. If only there was a certain someone with chainsaw experience hanging around…
This project is likely a few years out yet, but if they follow the recent games’ lead and go balls to the wall with the action and gore we might finally see a good Doom movie. Fingers, claws and tentacles crossed.
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