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Goddamn, I thought you were kidding about the Peacock thing.
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The fuck even is Peacock? Some new Netflix wannabe?
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For those curious.
The fuck even is Peacock? Some new Netflix wannabe?
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Since we're talking about it, I'll drop my three approaches for how to do a Doom movie:
1) The Dredd/John Wick approach. Doomguy's a force of nature, and we largely learn about him through others.
2) The Die Hard approach. Doomguy is tough, but human. He's driven to increasingly badass feats as he continuously tries and fails to get backup, then finally defeats the demonic invasion himself.
3) A more horror/drama-focused approach. When the movie begins, Doom 1 has already happened. Doomguy is back on Earth under intensive psychiatric treatment (sponsored by the UAC). The Phobos/Deimos incident is officially covered up, and Doomguy eventually believes that maybe he really is crazy and didn't go through Hell. Then Hell comes to Earth, and Doomguy throws off his conditioning and fights back. The film ends with him closing the portal and remaining in Hell, vowing to slay any demon that ever dares to raise its head.
1) The Dredd/John Wick approach. Doomguy's a force of nature, and we largely learn about him through others.
2) The Die Hard approach. Doomguy is tough, but human. He's driven to increasingly badass feats as he continuously tries and fails to get backup, then finally defeats the demonic invasion himself.
3) A more horror/drama-focused approach. When the movie begins, Doom 1 has already happened. Doomguy is back on Earth under intensive psychiatric treatment (sponsored by the UAC). The Phobos/Deimos incident is officially covered up, and Doomguy eventually believes that maybe he really is crazy and didn't go through Hell. Then Hell comes to Earth, and Doomguy throws off his conditioning and fights back. The film ends with him closing the portal and remaining in Hell, vowing to slay any demon that ever dares to raise its head.
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We're in the current year. The Slayer will be "slaying" by striking a gay pose everytime he performs a glory kill, then it would be revealed that he is actually a post op double masectomy transman and the forces of hell are trying to keep xir away from school children.
It's been a thing since 2020. It's NBCUniversal's attempt to compete with Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max and Paramount+. Though in all fairness, it's not like anyone would give a shit about Peacock.
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In defense of the old Doom novels, they came out in the 90's when all they had for source material would've been the manuals for the first two Doom games, the text screens at the end of specific levels and maybe the comic if they were very lucky. I don't even think David ab Hugh and Brad Lineweaver even had access to Tom Hall's Doom Bible to draw on. It was gonna be weird no matter what.
Heck, I'm pretty sure the later two Doom novels even predated the release of Final Doom. So some of the weirder elements like the Freds, the Klaives, and the Newbies or the weird hangups about Mormonism can be explained by the author doing the best to fill in the gaps to make a plot that was anything other than barebones.
The Doom 3 tie-in novels from the late 2000's were more close to the source material since Doom 3 tried to have somewhat of an actual plot and lore (and they were written by the guy who wrote the script for Doom 3). They were okay but largely forgettable.
The biggest issue with the 2005 Doom movie was that it was more or less trying to ape the first Paul W. Anderson Resident Evil movie on a certain level.
Much like the 2002 Resident Evil movie, Doom 2005 feels like an entirely original movie with some stuff from the source material tacked on because the studio had the license and both movies even have a biological agent as what creates the monsters but at least that was also part of the source material for Resident Evil. If Doom 2005 wasn't trying to be an adaptation of Doom 3, it'd be a cheesy but still passable sci-fi action movie. The kind of movie you'd watch on TV on a very slow Tuesday afternoon if there was nothing else available to watch.
Doom Annihilation was a cheapo ashcan movie cranked out on the quick to keep the movie rights to the IP after Doom 2016 turned out to be a big hit.
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If I were to do a Doom movie, I'd have a group of Marines turn up to investigate why Phobos base has gone dark. They encounter the demons, most of them get killed, then just as the last survivors are about to be overrun, have Doom Guy turn up to save them. They then fight alongside him into Hell, he never speaks or takes his helmet off because the other characters can provide the exposition or dialogue.
And Universal still wants and begs some crack cocaine money with the Doom IP, but good luck with that. For my wild card, even if its upcoming woke Peacock series airs, it will fail spectacularly like the previous DTV bullshit movie, and Microsoft will potentially get the rights back.
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My guys, you're missing the obvious angle: reverse horror movie where the demons get a half hour of slaughter and terror, before DOOM Guy wakes up and messily rips them apart for the next hour.
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Orrr... could just copy Hardcore Henry on how you do it. First-person perspective for the whole movie, total silence from them, with exposition, plot, and background delivered by various MacGuffins disguised as supporting characters.
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HH gave me awful motion sickness, therefore it is safe to say everyone will have the same problem.
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Could adapt the Sentinel-Hell war and the increasingly desperate leftover resistance headed by Doomguy afterward that takes place between Doom 64 and Doom 2016, with the series or movie ending with Doomguy's entombing in that sarcophagus.
At that point you might as well just record a playthrough of the game.
Both are good ideas for sure, but Universal (nor anyone in Hollywood) will commit to this unless it's Uwe Boll's Postal, Paul WS's Mortal Kombat or the recent Mario movie.
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No, fuck all of you who want a "Doom Slayer is some epic character" movie. Make it so that Doomguy is just some random soldier, thrown into the fray. I don't care for Doom 2016's power fantasy. Show that it is possible to actually fight against Hell's bullshit.
Edit: you could start every episode with Doomguy leaving voice recordings a-la Doom3 to explore his character and show him getting increasingly more deranged, because fighting demons is a hard job.
Edit: you could start every episode with Doomguy leaving voice recordings a-la Doom3 to explore his character and show him getting increasingly more deranged, because fighting demons is a hard job.
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I'm surprised none of the ideas involve Doomguy dealing with the loss of Daisy. It's one of the only details we have about his personality in the first two games, could be spun into a motive for him killing demons. Though I guess that does just turn it into demonic John Wick.
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"I hear you struck my top scientist."
"Yes Sir, I did."
"May I ask why?"
"Yeah, well, 'cause she stole Doomguy's boomstick and, uh, killed his rabbit."
"...oh."
"Yes Sir, I did."
"May I ask why?"
"Yeah, well, 'cause she stole Doomguy's boomstick and, uh, killed his rabbit."
"...oh."
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I'm not sure why people are seeing this as a drawback.
That's never gonna happen. I'm gonna say that the new Peacock series is going to make shit like Paramount+ Halo look like a godsend by comparison. Fuck.
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And it could go either way, they'll have yet another plank girl or they'll make her black or asian.