SciFi Wire- Quake Following Doom To Film

[NowIWillDestroyAbydos]

From SciFi Wire:

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/i...ory=0&id=32790

Quake Following Doom To Film

Todd Hollenshead, CEO of id Software, told SCI FI Wire that a movie based on their Quake series was discussed long before a Doom film was in the works. As the Doom movie was bounced around between Warner Brothers and Universal Pictures, the game creators began pursuing an idea to make Quake into a film as well. "There has been talk about a Quake movie," Hollenshead said in an interview. "We would be interested in pursuing that. We had a good experience with Lorenzo [di Bonaventura] and John [Wells, the producers] and the cast [Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Rosmund Pike and others], as well as Universal."

The trick with turning the Quake games into a film is that the games include very different environments. "The challenge for Quake is what to draw from for the movie," Hollenshead said. "Quake 2 and 3 are very different, and Quake 4 is kind of a prequel to 2. So for a movie, we will probably draw from the Quake 2 and Quake 4 universe—an alien race from another planet that has attacked the Earth. That sort of thing."

Will it matter if the Doom film does well or not? "It won't make much difference to us, we see everything independently," Hollenshead said. "But in the ranks of Hollywood, if they see the Doom movie as successful, it will raise the interest level and they would want other game movies and come to us."

Doom opens Oct. 21 and is being released by Universal Pictures, a division of NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.com.

[Qasim]

Hmmm..the development of Quake sounds interesting - I will be following it closely

[Mr Prophet]

Well, Quake II already had a very cinematic kind of plot. All you need to do is have a squad survive instead of a single marine, then work hard at making it not too much of an Aliens knock-off.

[Anubis69]

Personally, i want to see game to film conversions turn good before they try to convert some of the better games, if you follow me! They ruined Resident Evil and Mario Brothers, i'd rather they didn't ruin classics like Doom.

[aAnubiSs]

Personally I'd love for the Quake movie to take the dark satanic feeling of
Quake I

[Caprice]

They ruined Resident Evil and Mario Brothers, i'd rather they didn't ruin classics like Doom.

I liked Mario Brothers (cheese, but funny) and I didn't watch teh Resident Evil one, but I REALLY think they botched the Wing Commander one. Nothing like the games, nothing at all. What were they thinking?

[yaaayoubetcha]

Never saw Mario, but everybody i knew at the time gave it a resounding raspberry...

I liked the ResEvil movies, but i've never played the games, so I don't really know how well they ported to screen....i get the impression not very well. anything with Milla Jovovich, however, scores well in my books.

I've seen the trailers for Doom, always switching to game view and really...i'm thinking it got moved from my 'will see it anyway' list to 'wait for scifi' list

Since Doom and Quake are essentially the same game, no reason they can't shoot both movies at once and just have Rock star in both.

If they want to make a movie based on an FPS they should really look into the original Unreal. That had actual story. And of course, Halo which they say is just on the verge.