Doom: The Movie

For a second there I didn't realize you were referring to Half-Life...

"Far Cry" will be a movie in 2006, starring "The Rock" as Jack Carver.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400426/

"Far Cry" will be a movie in 2006, starring "The Rock" as Jack Carver.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400426/

It's also being directed by Uwe Boll, who is best known as
that-guy-who-makes-rubbish-video-game-movies-and-isn't-called-Paul-Anderson.

In other words, avoid like the plague.

I am just hoping that he won't be chosen to direct the movie for Half-Life.

Some stills from the movie itself: http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/doom-3/609519p1.html?fromint=1

Interesting article. Personally I don't mind it the movie doesn't
follow the exact story of the Doom series. As long as it can capture
the tension, spookiness, and visceral excitement that characterized the
first time I ever played Doom... I'll consider the movie a successful
adaptation.

Cast of the new HL Movie..

http://www.hlportal.de/?sec=forum&site=thread&thread_id=71&page=1

Some good choice there.. man if I only spoke german.

Don't worry, you aren't missing anything not knowing what they banter
about down there. And i'm afraid this is a "would-be" movie, so it's
not certain if this will actually exist (God, I hope one day someone
will make such a movie! Much better than a bollsheet plotless doom3
movie!).

When they finally make the HL movie, I hope they won't treat it as a typical video game movie for kids. I want a real plot and some philosophy behind the story. I want real emotion involved. I want an A-list actor for the project. And perhaps Steven Soderbergh should be the director.

I WANT ADVENT CHILDREN!!!!

And perhaps Steven Soderbergh should be the director.

Meh. Spielberg would be much better. He has a special touch for the weird.

Paul Thomas Anderson, folks.

Unfortunately, I think we're fooling ourselves that these big-name directors are going get themselves involved with the movie based on a video game (even though it's the greatest game ever made).

It's more likely going to get a first-time director who has only made music videos before.

Well the guy who is directing the doom movie has quite a few movies
under his belt, including US Marshalls, Dante's Peak, Species, and
Speed:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005647/

they should wait for HL3 to come out before they make a movie then they could make loads of money with a trilogy

but seriously - i think they might have to adapt the way the story flows for the movie. how would like watching someone else, in third person, running through the whole of HL2?? but i guess some of you would probably love it...

there is a chance for a big time director: i swear i saw a Halo movie scheduled for 2007 directed by Ridley Scott but sadly it isnt there anymore.

Mark Laidlaw should just write a screenplay... I don't care if it's HL
related or not. He's already proven he can tell a great
story. I'd like to see what he could do with the film medium.

As much as I like Paul Anderson, I don't want him even remotely involved with an HL movie ... ever.

Those "Music Video Directors" usually turn out to be excellent film makers: David Fincher, Mark Romanek, Francis Lawrence, etc.

I would actually like to see Francis Lawrence get a hold of the HL film. I wouldn't really care who writes the script. It'd be cool if they worked with Mark Laidlaw to make a coherent movie story line, but the actual script its self shouldn't be written by him, and as long as it's not written by David Koepp: I'll be fine. I think Peter David would be a good choice. He rocks. Jim Uhls seems pretty good at adaptations as well.

Spielberg = bloated movie that will be over glossed and will be identified through the director.

Soderbergh = predictable obvious movie even if there's an enormous amount of confusion. It'll just end up looking pretty.

Anderson (PW) = Cheesy and inaccurate, because he refuses to let other people write the scripts to things he "adapts"

Mark Laidlaw should just write a screenplay

In all likelihood, he had already. But Hollywood hasn't accepted his script yet. It's so difficult to convince a studio to take on your project, yet hundreds of stupid s**tty movies get made every year.

It's kinda like writing a book...

Are you kidding? More now then ever studios are doing exactly the opposite of that.

I mean, if Warner Brothers is keeping their producer's hands out of a Batman movie: anything is possible.

For some reason, WB seems to be the ones who're finally learning to let go and let people be creative. I think other studios have been doing things like that for a long time.

And, there are always independent distributors who will simply fund your project and let you do what you want as long as you make their money back (Miramax/Dimension)

Of course there are bad movies every year. But there are good ones too. To simply say, in general, that every studio in Hollywood rejects anything good is absurd and ignorant.