World Shocked to hear Doom Movie won't have plot from Doom Game

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Doom Plot Not Like the Game
But keeping the game's atmosphere is a priority.
December 06, 2004 - Doom the movie was fast-tracked to take advantage of the publicity and fanfare surrounding the release of the Doom 3 computer game, and filming has already gotten underway in Prague, capital of the Czech Republic. Polish director Andrzej Bartkowiak (Romeo Must Die) has replaced rookie Enda McCallion on the $70 million film production.

Czech news magazine Novinky.ca reports on a visit to the film set, with numerous details about the shoot. They say that although the filmmakers are keen to preserve the dark, spooky atmosphere of the videogames, much of the plot has been changed in Dave Callahan's screenplay. The original Doom and the recent Doom 3 were both about a team of space marines sent to defend a Mars research base from Hellish monsters who invade via an interdimensional portal. The movie, however, will take place not on Mars, but rather a fictional "remote planet." The film's monsters will not be minions from Hades, but humans infected with a mutagenic super-virus.

Doom the movie intends to be more of a horror flick than an action film, but with more shooting and fighting than your average scare-fare. It's beginning to sound a lot like Resident Evil in space, actually. The story will center around soldier John Grimm, the character played by Karl Urban (Eomer in The Lord of the Rings). Many scenes will be shot in first-person view, the perspective used to great effect in Doom 3 and many other first-person-shooter games.

Doom will be released in theaters on August 5th, 2005.

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