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DOOM script (2019) Genre: Scifi, Action, Horror. Total Runtime 2h 05min (Rated R for strong violence and gore, strong language, body horror, adult themes)

PREMISE: It's the year 2149. Humankind has made huge leaps towards the stars and built colonies on MARS and on its moons. UAC (Union Aerospace Corporation) is a multi-planetary conglomerate and military contractor, performing secret experiments on INTERDIMENSIONAL SPACE TRAVEL. Recently, the teleportation has shown signs of anomalies and instability, but research continues nonetheless. But in one fateful day, Earth receives distress call from Mars, incoherent message about something EVIL coming through the interdimensional gateway, which Earth responds by sending a warship and platoon of toughest SPACE MARINES. One being the legendary and tough as nails DOOMGUY. But none are aware that the mission is DOOMED from the start.

MAKING OF: I have to admit that I'm little bit underwhelmed by Hollywood's adaptations of the Doom games. I mean, how hard is to make a decent movie about such a simple premise: Doomguy faces hell on Mars. That's it, that's all you need to get right. In Doom (2005) we don't have hell, we sort of have Doomguy-ish, in Doom: Annihilation (2019) we have hell, but NO Doomguy. In both cases, both movies fall half short. So I had enough. I'll give you Doomguy and hell on Mars. We cut the bullshit, we don't dance around it, we don't tease it, I'll give you Doom with the two essential ingredients. It's a mix of Doom 3 and Doom (2016), but more of the recent Doom.

Actually, in first ten minutes you'll get Doomguy and Hell on Mars. Yeah, no pussyfooting around. It's a move to assure you that yes, this is Doom and here are all the elements you expected to see, so no worrying from here on, I've got you. And then we start the PLOT. It's Doom meets Aliens meets Total Recall meets Robocop meets Evil Dead meets Chernobyl (HBO series), and little bit of Mortal Kombat. So mashup of all the best ingredients. First I wanted to make a war movie, space marines fighting demons, like Saving Private Ryan but with demons. That's why the tag line ”War is Hell”, because that's deep, Mars was named after the Roman God of War and the actual Hell is on the planet, that's why ”War” is ”Hell”, very multi layered and thought provoking tag line xD.

And yeah, the beginning is still with that idea, but then I was like, if there's dozen or more space marines addition to Doomguy, that looked the same, acted the same, only sounded different, I felt it stole thunder and spotlight from Doomguy, our main hero. It's not like we're doing Halo here. So I went back to the drawing board and thought up this one man's figurative and literal journey to hell, and on the way Doomguy gains back his humanity and identity. It's not about the destination, it's about the journey. And in the backdrop we're dealing with galactic scale conspiracy that threatens all mankind. All comes back in the title ”Doom”, everything and everybody are doomed from the start, Doomguy is doomed, Mars is doomed, Earth is doomed, humankind is doomed, even the demons are doomed, and the crux of the story is how we deal with these insurmountable odds, how we play with the cards we are dealt and you can't change them. I think it's more compelling story than a generic demon shoot 'em up.

And no, there's no BFG. Actually, Sarge tells you that in a fourth wall breaking moment in the first ten minutes of the story. Let me explain. In the previous two Doom movies the BFG (Big Fucking Gun) is underwhelming and incorrect. It always took precious screen time and payoff was always little or nothing at all. I didn't find a place for it here and I wasn't going to force it. And introducing something powerful like that would lessen the tension. If I used it somewhere, I would use it in the sequel, when stakes are bigger. Where you could properly hype it up and give it justice.

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DOOM script (2019) Genre: Scifi, Action, Horror. Total Runtime 2h 05min (Rated R for strong violence and gore, strong language, body horror, adult themes)

PREMISE: It's the year 2149. Humankind has made huge leaps towards the stars and built colonies on MARS and on its moons. UAC (Union Aerospace Corporation) is a multi-planetary conglomerate and military contractor, performing secret experiments on INTERDIMENSIONAL SPACE TRAVEL. Recently, the teleportation has shown signs of anomalies and instability, but research continues nonetheless. But in one fateful day, Earth receives distress call from Mars, incoherent message about something EVIL coming through the interdimensional gateway, which Earth responds by sending a warship and platoon of toughest SPACE MARINES. One being the legendary and tough as nails DOOMGUY. But none are aware that the mission is DOOMED from the start.

MAKING OF: I have to admit that I'm little bit underwhelmed by Hollywood's adaptations of the Doom games. I mean, how hard is to make a decent movie about such a simple premise: Doomguy faces hell on Mars. That's it, that's all you need to get right. In Doom (2005) we don't have hell, we sort of have Doomguy-ish, in Doom: Annihilation (2019) we have hell, but NO Doomguy. In both cases, both movies fall half short. So I had enough. I'll give you Doomguy and hell on Mars. We cut the bullshit, we don't dance around it, we don't tease it, I'll give you Doom with the two essential ingredients. It's a mix of Doom 3 and Doom (2016), but more of the recent Doom.

Actually, in first ten minutes you'll get Doomguy and Hell on Mars. Yeah, no pussyfooting around. It's a move to assure you that yes, this is Doom and here are all the elements you expected to see, so no worrying from here on, I've got you. And then we start the PLOT. It's Doom meets Aliens meets Total Recall meets Robocop meets Evil Dead meets Chernobyl (HBO series), and little bit of Mortal Kombat. So mashup of all the best ingredients. First I wanted to make a war movie, space marines fighting demons, like Saving Private Ryan but with demons. That's why the tag line ”War is Hell”, because that's deep, Mars was named after the Roman God of War and the actual Hell is on the planet, that's why ”War” is ”Hell”, very multi layered and thought provoking tag line xD.

And yeah, the beginning is still with that idea, but then I was like, if there's dozen or more space marines addition to Doomguy, that looked the same, acted the same, only sounded different, I felt it stole thunder and spotlight from Doomguy, our main hero. It's not like we're doing Halo here. So I went back to the drawing board and thought up this one man's figurative and literal journey to hell, and on the way Doomguy gains back his humanity and identity. It's not about the destination, it's about the journey. And in the backdrop we're dealing with galactic scale conspiracy that threatens all mankind. All comes back in the title ”Doom”, everything and everybody are doomed from the start, Doomguy is doomed, Mars is doomed, Earth is doomed, humankind is doomed, even the demons are doomed, and the crux of the story is how we deal with these insurmountable odds, how we play with the cards we are dealt and you can't change them. I think it's more compelling story than a generic demon shoot 'em up.

And no, there's no BFG. Actually, Sarge tells you that in a fourth wall breaking moment in the first ten minutes of the story. Let me explain. In the previous two Doom movies the BFG (Big Fucking Gun) is underwhelming and incorrect. It always took precious screen time and payoff was always little or nothing at all. I didn't find a place for it here and I wasn't going to force it. And introducing something powerful like that would lessen the tension. If I used it somewhere, I would use it in the sequel, when stakes are bigger. Where you could properly hype it up and give it justice.

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