Why Doom? Well, it's being done.  Moe Lospinoso, who was producer at one time, has come out and said he wanted a cast list, so how could we resist since we are the casting people, right?  CCB and I sat down and came up with this.  Have a good time.  And Mr. Lospinoso?  If you're reading this, (a) welcome and (2) we'll screenwrite this thing for cheap.  Just let us know where to send the outline/proposal.

What's the scoop?  What we wanted to do with this film is make the film you wanted when you went to see Starship Troopers, Alien: Resurrection or Vampires but as if they were directed by Dario Argento.  Lots of guns, lots of demons, lots of blood and lots of destruction.  What we also decided to do is make a film that is a handoff from one generation of action heroes to the next.  Think about it--sooner or later Gibson's not going to be able to make another Lethal Weapon film, no matter how much money they pay him.  And so forth.  Now, of course, they'll CGI the actors in a few years and then we'll have Alien XIV or something like that someday.  But until then, we need a new guard.  So we wanted to do is let a new group of stars get a chance to go and blow things up.  That's only fair, don't you think?

Here's the setup.  At a military base on the moon, a battle weary platoon fresh from the Martian Clone Wars has arrived on their way back to Earth for a little R&R.  However, shortly thereafter an anomaly is spotted above the base.  Before anyone can even begin to wonder what it is, a blast from space transforms the entire lunar outpost into a satanic version of its former self, leaving our heroes with no clue as to what's going on.  Thus, the team must try to get out of the base alive, when little do they know it but each step they take leads them further into hell, facing hordes of their former compatriots now demonized and undead, as well as all sorts of soul shattering H.P. Lovecraft creatures.

Directed by John Woo:  Let's face it.  When you want intelligent, clever yet kick-ass action, there's only one place to go.  We'd need to make sure to get him some help from H.R. Giger or Clive Barker or somebody (we couldn't decide) to get him some great art and set direction and let him do his thing.  Woo and pulse rifles.  Think about the possibilities.  And if we have to go with someone who might be a little easier to get how about Richard Donner as the backup.  We don't often use second choices here at SDI, but hey, not many that we cast are actually being made into movies either.  And if you wonder why Richard Donner just click on his name above to jump over to the IMDB and check out this guy's directing credits.  Richard has some good names on the list from the hey day of television and he's been on a tear in Hollywood the past few years.

Mark Wahlberg as Lt. Rhodes:  We need somebody to head up our squad of newcomers.  And Wahlberg's no slouch in the action department.  He was able to take the comedic side with The Big Hit so we think he would be perfect for the serious side with this.  He didn't get there with The Corruptor, but that wasn't his fault.  Get him a real over-the-top action flick like this one, and he'll shine.

Barry Pepper as Sgt. Morrison:  We needed somebody to be the second-in-command of the unit we're throwing together.  After seeing Pepper's turn as the zealot sniper in Saving Private Ryan, we're positive he would bring some of that intensity to killing demons.  Heck, the scripture readings might even come in handy.  Couldn't hurt, anyway.

David Arquette as Corp. Lewis:   The movie needs a young Bill Paxton.  And for those of you who don't know what we're talking about, shame on you.  Or perhaps think of Steve Buscemi's role in Armageddon.  However, as the unit's communications officer, he will still perform when the chips are down.  Just don't expect him to be too happy about it, or the fact that he wants Newell badly despite the fact he is scared shitless of her.

Taye Diggs as PFC. Warren:  We were looking for somebody who would be a bad-ass, but who isn't necessarily known for his bad-ass capabilities.  Simply put, we think that this guy is a bad-ass in the making.

Fairuza Balk as PFC. Grace Newell:  The movie needs a Vasquez archetype.  That's right, the icon of tough women everywhere immortalized in Aliens by Jenette Goldstein.  However, though Balk may not be able to break somebody in half like Vasquez, we will give her the ability to blow them into little bits.  She's our demolitions expert and she would be the perfect kind of meanness to not take crap from the others on the team lest she put a Claymore down their trousers.

Eric Schweig as PFC. Billy Thompson:  We needed a weapons specialist, someone who could look at any weapon, know what it does, how it does it, and the things it can do that the designers never thought of.  All this while killing demons and giving Corporal Lewis plenty of hell.  And since we haven't seen enough of Schweig recently, we figured he would be perfect for it.

Ginny Holder as PFC. Caufield:  She's the pilot/transportations expert.  She's the one who if they can ever get to a damn hangar with a craft that's intact she can probably get them out of this mess.  After seeing her in Wing Commander, we're sure she would do just fine in a real movie.

Sigourney Weaver as Adm. Williams:  She's the boss.  After four Alien movies, three of them of quality, are you going to tell her she's not running the show?  She'd probably be on Earth, with plenty of scenes of her demanding someone tell her what the hell just happened to the lunar base.

Sylvester Stallone as Master Gunnery Sgt. Parker:  I think Sly will be the one to take our heroes on a tour of the base, which will be perfect for later.  Think about it--everytime a tour takes place in another film, it's a setup to familiarize primarily the audience with the setting.  But since the base has been transported into hell, nothing will be the same, meaning everything's even more weird and disorienting.  Anyway, after three films as Rambo not to mention other flicks in the same genre, he's the one to get the most screen time.

Mel Gibson, Linda Hamilton, and Bruce Willis:  These three would be in cameos (kinda like Clooney in Thin Red Line...but with purpose) either drilling groups of recruits, sparring, lounging around--whatever.  Just to provide that action genre who's who feel we're aiming for.  And yes, we'd get Arnie to be in it too, but that would jack the budget up a million per screen second.  So oh well.

David Hasselhoff as Adm. Dirk Anger:  See, if we were being really overcaffeinated and silly, we'd present Hasselhoff, complete with eyepatch, as a really blustering overblown CO for the base.  Then we'd have him die first.  Then we'd have his head show up on the big boss at the end of the movie.  But we couldn't possibly be that ridiculous.  Could we?