Video-Game “Doom” turns movie
According to Variety, Warner Bros. Pictures is in final negotiations to pick up the feature film rights to id Software Inc.’s video game property “Doom” in a progress-to-production deal that will see the project go in front of the cameras in 15 months, or the rights revert back to the software company. Studio-based John Wells Prods. will produce “Doom” with recently departed worldwide production president-turned-producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. The feature film’s story line will most resemble the third “Doom,” which is set in the future at a paramilitary base on Mars, where a scientific experiment goes awry and accidentally opens a portal to hell. The vastly outnumbered hero fights off the forces of hell as they come from the portal onto the deserted base.
