Doomsday to Get a SciFi Channel TV Movie Spin-Off?

Posted by on January 7th, 2009   Filed under: Action, Rumours, Sci-fi, TV
Source: Quiet Earth

One movie that I really enjoyed in 2008 that didn’t make my Top 10 or honourable mentions list is Neil Marshall’s Doomsday. I know a lot of people thought the movie was a huge disappointment because they were expecting something like The Descent, but when taken as a love letter to the post-apocalyptic genre it was simply a blast to watch. Surprisingly, although it bombed at the box office, it seems that Doomsday may actually be getting a sequel… just not necessarily the kind I was hoping for.

The good folks over at Quiet Earth have discovered that Doomsday is being turned into a SciFi Channel made-for-TV movie. There isn’t a lot of information to go on right now except for this IMDb entry, which lists Deanna Troi herself Marina Sirtis as playing the role of “Government Official”, and Luke Goss of Hellboy II fame as playing the role of David. There was a character named David in the original (played by Vernon Willemse), but to be honest, I’m not actually 100% convinced that this has anything to do with Neil Marshall’s film as of yet. A couple of years back The SciFi Channel had a Countdown to Doomsday special… for all we know, this could just be another version of that. Does anyone else have any information on this? Doomsday is being directed by Nick Lyon (Species: The Awakening).



  • TheMovieVampire

    All I know is that the Sci-Fi channel makes some of the worst movies ever, they’re almost all below-direct-to-DVD-quality aweful. Uwe Boll makes better movies.

  • Ian

    Nice. I’ll tell my friends ’cause they all love this stuff and talking about it but don’t also have the internet … no seriously, Sci-Fi can do awesome stuff if they want to and it’s nice to see that with a few decent shows under their belt they are expanding to do something fun like this. That said it’ll probably be total crap … I mean it kind of has to be right?

  • I liked this movie more than I thought I would. It was pretty cool that there were like 3 different themes crammed in there: knights, zombies, and road warrior.

  • James

    I don’t think it is anything to do with Neil Marshall’s film. Nick Lyon directed Grendel for the Sci-fi channel a couple of years ago. There’s such little information available. Back in September Marina Sirtis’s Official Site told us “Marina just completed filming in Bulgaria for her role as a government official involved in a particle collider project. The new movie is called “Doomsday” and will air on the Sci-Fi Channel.”

  • James

    http://www.myspace.com/mikefreshjohnson

    This guy was in the film, check out his photos for proof, him and Luke Goss and other cast members. And his blog tells us it’s not related to Neil Marshall’s film.