At the time of writing, the Doom: Annihilation movie trailer has had more than 350,000 views. So far, more than 8,800 viewers have disliked the 30-second clip, and just under 700 apparently like the look of Hell.
Shortly after the trailer went live, a fan reached out to id Software and the official DOOM account on Twitter to see how the original creators felt about the "direct to video" adaptation. Below is the rather blunt reply from the DOOM Twitter account:
As some of our lovely readers have already pointed out in our previous post, this upcoming Universal movie looks more like a television series from the 90s. So, can you really blame id Software for wanting to distance itself from this project? Especially when it's been hard at work on DOOM Eternal - the hellish experience fans deserve.
Hell, maybe we're reading into this too much, but it sure seems like id Software doesn't want a bar of it when it has put so much love into this iconic video game series over the past 25 years. The developer even went to the extent of retweeting the above tweet on its official Twitter account to ensure the message is loud and clear.
What do you think? Are you relieved id Software isn't involved with this project? Will you still be seeing it? Tell us below.
[source dualshockers.com]
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Considering the amazing reputation of the first film, this isn’t really a surprise.
Who could've thought?
Throw Dwayne Johnson in there and see how it goes.
Haha. It does look terrible though.
I'm a little confused. If they aren't involved, then who told that movie company it was okay to make a movie based off of DOOM? Bethesda? Did they really go and do that behind the actual developers' backs?
@ALinkttPresent I assume since Universal owns the rights, they dont need the developers or publishers input. I also assume this was made because Universal is going to lose the rights soon.
How is this a Universal Studios thing? That was some abysmal C-class movie garbage.
@99x Well even with an existing contract, I really can't believe Universal would make a DOOM movie without talking to id about it. I mean, I'm sure they didn't keep it a secret, but going a head and making the movie without any input from the game developers is pretty bad
Also, I hear these kinds of contracts only expire if you don't make a movie for a certain amount of time, so I bet you are right that that's why they made this movie
@ALinkttPresent Didn't seem like iD had much input in the first movie. What about the RE movies? Can't imagine Capcom was over the moon with any of them.
Looks like Starship Troopers if it was shot with low budget and had Uwe Boll as director
@Zyph : I would have watched that if not for the awful stunt-cast lead. Same with Detective Pikachu. It's absolutely repulsive that Ryan Reynolds is probably getting paid more than much of the production crew combined for his bland, bland, BLAND performance. Combine that with the hideous animation/designs and it's an easy pass, though I have an awful feeling that I may get dragged along to see this.
I wasn't a fan of the idea of DeVito taking the lead, but given the circumstances, at least Pikachu would have had some semblance of a personality, rather than sounding like a completely generic smart mouth.
Dumb question but where is doomy guy
@99x
They were actually or else the director for the re movies would not be allowed to make the mh movie
“Direct to video”
Better dust off the old VCR then
Looks like doom to me.
This movie is dooooomed!
The Rock's done ok since the first film. Looked ropey for a bit for him though
How unsurprising.
Added to watch list
Doesn’t look very good. I can’t believe they went with a girl as the main character and even if that not so bad, why did they go with a thin girl? Isn’t this supposed to be like a marine solider or something? They could at least have chosen a muscular girl. Someone who looked like she could carry 20kg of weapons and fight big nasty monsters at the same time...
Doom Annthilation
This movie is already Doom to failed, it'll join the rest of the videogame movies graveyard.
A DOOM movie should be like Mad Max Fury Road, action all the time.
It doesn't look particularly enticing, but I fail to to see what's so "terrible" about the trailer, specially if it's a direct to video movie. But I guess very loudly hating all things at first sight is what the "cool kids" do these days.
@nab1 you mad?! Them "doomslayers" look like starship troopers! They're supposed to be buff and scary lol
@Phle you couldn't be more right
This looks pants. The way she wields that bfg makes it look like styrofoam. They couldn't have put a little weight in it? Also, it seems like all the sets are in one big corridor with the barrels moved about. Lame.
@99x apparently Capcom is the reason why they're so different, as they were worried people would just watch the movies instead of playing the game
Terrible trailer.
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