Universal is planning on making another Doom movie since apparently they didn’t learn their lesson the first time around.
If you make a game and call it Doom, you can do no wrong. The original ‘90s era games were classics. The 2004 reinvention of the series Doom 3 was another critically acclaimed game, but it seemed to lose something to the original iterations. Bethesda’s crack with the remade Doom in 2016 brought everything full circle, making a game that was true to the arcade shooter-feel of the original while still delivering oodles of creepy demons and zombies.
But there has been a place where Doom has not fared nearly as well, and that’s on the big screen. Universal Pictures bought the rights to the game franchise and created a movie in 2005 that was, in a word, awful. Not even Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and a young Karl Urban could save such a travesty.
There weren’t even any demons. It was all about aliens and bioengineered viruses. Just save yourself two hours and never watch it.
Now, according to a singer slash actress who says she’s signed on to star in the film, Universal is bringing Doom back for round two.
Nina Bergman, the lead singer for San Francisco-based hard rock band Letters from the Fire, tweeted last Tuesday that she “signed all the paperwork” and will be in a forthcoming Doom movie.
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The internet’s memory being long enough to stretch back to 2005, a Twitter follower pointed out that the last time Hollywood stepped into the world of Doom it was a Hellscape the likes of which the world has never seen (mostly because Hell wasn’t even in it). Bergman assures us that this time things will be different.
Hopefully this remake will be more based on the wildly successful 2016 Doom game and be all about a man’s (or woman’s) jaunt throw the magical kingdom of Hell, bestowing death and destruction wherever he wanders. However, at this point we know nothing about the movie other than the fact Bergman will be in it.
We do know that The Rock won’t reprise his role. In fact, he’s been gleefully throwing the 2005 movie under the bus on Twitter and in interviews. Rightly so, but it’s a bit like burning bridges.
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