New details have emerged about the Doom movie reboot, and first among them is it will have a female lead.

According to horror movie enthusiast site Dread Central, the new Doom movie will cast Amy Manson as its lead. Amy is a Scottish actress best known for her television roles in Once Upon A Time, Being Human, The White Princess, and Torchwood. Those are some critically acclaimed TV series, so Amy’s casting is a promising sign.

What is not a promising sign is the director, who is Tony Giglio. If you haven’t heard of him, that’s probably for the best. He’s written and directed in a bunch of made-for-TV movies such as S.W.A.T.: Under Siege, three Death Race films, and Soccer Dog: The Movie. If that wasn’t troubling enough, no movie Giglio has ever written was profitable at the box office.

So we’re off to a good start. But wait, there’s more. Universal 1440 Entertainment, Universal’s non-theatrical division, are the ones producing this reborn Doom film, so that means we’re likely to see a direct-to-video release or something that’ll play on streaming services like Netflix. It also means we’re no looking at anything near as big-budget as what we’d expect from a Hollywood action movie.

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The only good news to report is the fact that Autonomous FX will be doing the special effects and creating the demons in the movie. The fact that there will indeed be demons is good news number one, and number two is that Autonomous FX did the special effects in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which was an amazing movie.

Well, it was awful, but in a good way. And it was still visually incredible.

We also know who one of the supporting actors will be: Nina Bergman, an aspiring actress and lead singer for a San Francisco-based heavy metal band.

So the news is a mixed bag. We have a solid female lead, a metal-head backup, and a special effects team that knows their stuff. What we probably don’t have is a solid manuscript or even a plot.

But then again, this is Doom. So long as the story is “accidentally opened a portal to Hell on Mars, gotta kill a bunch of demons now,” then we’re actually miles better than the 2005 version that nearly ruined The Rock’s career.

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