DOOM THE MOVIE: Back in 1997 Doom came my way via phone call to Ethos Entertainment, on the other end of the phone. Was my old friend Moe Lospinoso who owned the film rights to DOOM and was also set to produce. What a small world I worked with Moe on Super Mario Bros. The Movie. So after a few lunches and phone calls and meetings I was developing making & designing creatures for the upcoming film both when it was first at Universal Pictures and Tri Star.

After many false starts and finishes, the project never got going. then as it looked like it was gonna happen with Tri Star pictures with Todd McFarlane on board the Columbine School massacre happened, it was found that the teenage killers known as the trench coat gang or trench coat mafia who among other things used the Doom video game as inspiration for the killings. So the studio got scared and pulled the plug. So there went my dreams of being on the Sony lot with one of the biggest creature shows in recent history. So looks like for now anyway Doom is doomed.

LAST WORD ON DOOM ON THE NET

September 17, 1997... John Carmack, lead programmer/co-founder of id Software was quoted in the August 27, 1997 edition of Blue News webpage "The movie option lapsed, so it will probably never happen." Blue's News is a Quake-news web site (bluenews.com) [Reported by 'lom'; originally appeared on Blue's News.]

August 11, 1999... We've gotten some reports from people who attended QuakeCon, a Quake playing tournament held in Dallas every year, that Quake and Doom co-creator John Carmack spoke about what was the latest with the proposed Doom movie in development hell. According to our scoopers Carmack said id software looked at the first Doom script and said it was horrible, and the second script was only called "pretty mediocre" by the id troops. According to Carmack, the rights expired and nothing further's been done with it. [Never run with a loaded railgun - just ask 'Vermilion', 'Bath' Matt Dive,'Pariah' and Jim.]

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