Doom film stays with Irish director, as studio changes

General | 16/06/2004

Ireland as a filming location is now being rumoured…

Even after the film rights change to Universal Studios, Irish man, Enda McCallion, is to still direct the Doom film as his first feature length film. It’s to be produced by Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and John Wells.

McCallion shot his first film aged 16, and went on to study film at the Royal College of Art in London. He has worked on advertisements for Guinness owners Diago, and the band Nine Inch Nails.

Early last week the film studio Warner Brothers lost the rights to the Doom film, at the time the games developer ‘id’ were denying a deal with Universal Studios, although the film trade publications the Hollywood Reporter, and Variety were saying other wise.

Variety has also reported the film is an adaptation of the upcoming PC and Xbox game Doom 3. The script is apparently written by Dave Callaham.

Set on a Mars space station, the sci-fi horror first person shooter (FPS) game is currently without a firm release date, although some have it pencilled in for a July 14 release.

Source: GamesIndustry.biz, Hollywood Reporter, RTE online