'Doom' To Feature First-Person Shooter Style

[Friday, October 7th, 2005]
Karl UrbanKarl Urban, who plays John Grimm in the upcoming Doom game adaptation, says the film will feature the game's first-person-shooter style. "There's a sequence sort of near the end of the film, where essentially the audience becomes John Grimm and goes around slaughtering all these creatures, mutants," Urban told Sci-Fi Wire. "I've seen an animatic of it and it’s just thrilling. I'm pretty sure that it’s going to keep the audience in their seats."

Urban says they were aware of the high expectations of the game's fans. "The game is a starting point for this film," he said. "It was an inspiration. And we have incorporated a hell of a lot of elements from this game into the film, but at the end of the day, this is a screen adaptation of the film. You know, we've done, I think, our very best to honor what the gamers are into and what has been created, and hopefully add to it."

Urban added that the film will feature many of the weapons seen in the games. To use these weapons they went through specialist training. "I love firing weapons," he said. "I love it. You know, I'm having a blast on this film, really. When you walk on sets and you see these moody corridors and they give you this mess of assault rifles to play with, I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet. I've got my own 3-D version of Doom and I get to play it every day. It's sort of cool."

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