Universal Is Eyeing A 3D Reboot Of DOOM

A film reboot of DOOM? In 3D? Why am I not surprised?

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No surprise to hear that, what with the industry hellbent on utilizing all and any picture patented brands (G.I Joe, Monopoly, Rubik’s Cube, Tomb Raider),a reboot – one that entirely skips over the events of the insipid 2005 film – is in the early stages of development. Universal own the rights to the film and though they’ve always been keen on doing another Doom movie sometime, the success of Paramount’s G.I Joe : Rise of Cobra piqued their interest even more. Uni is said to be script scouting for a Doom movie that’ll make full advantage of contemporary cinema’s richest weapon – er, 3D.

If I were to make a list of the biggest film disappointments of the last decade, I’m pretty sure that the original DOOM (despite starring The Rock and Karl Urban) would be pretty high on that list. As a fan, this wasn’t the DOOM pic I’d been waiting nearly a decade for. This was a SyFy channel special, a Saturday night quickie that you forget about the second it ends.

Oh sure, there were a couple of good moments here and there. The “first person” sequence (included below so you don’t have to actually watch the movie) was pretty cool, Urban made for a decent enough hero and it was nice to see The Rock playing a bad guy. But that’s where my praise ends. The rest of the movie was an ugly mess that seemed to do everything in it’s power to alienate and piss off fans.

And while I’d love to say that a reboot is totally called for here and that Universal is right on the money, I really can’t. For one thing, their the same studio that f**ked up the original film, so what’s to say they won’t do the same here? DOOM should’ve been an action epic on par with TOTAL RECALL or ROBOCOP and it ended up being a movie that most people have completely forgotten about and the people who were in it don’t even include it on their resumes.

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