An Urban, Rock-filled DOOM

By: Patrick Sauriol
Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

After starring in two of Universal Pictures summertime films, Karl Urban (who also starred in the latter two LORD OF THE RINGS pictures) will receive another paycheck from the same studio for starring in DOOM along with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Urban, who appeared in THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK and THE BOURNE SUPREMACY this past summer, will play a futuristic special ops soldier named John Grimm in film adaptation of the popular id Software first-person shooter video game. Grimm confronts the demons unleashed from a scientific experiment on Mars that's gone awry, and in the course of the film the character will also confront the organization that's responsible for his parents' death.

Now here comes the boring stuff: the movie will be directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak (CRADLE 2 THE GRAVE), who joined the project earlier this month. The screenplay is by Dave Callaham and Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and John Wells are producing the flick. Uni wants to start filming come October and release the movie on August 5, 2005. That would delay the start of SPY HUNTER until after DOOM has wrapped and freed up The Rock's schedule.


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