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A new episode of the Revisited video series has just been released, and with this one we’re looking back at the 2005 video game adaptation Doom (watch it Here) – a movie that didn’t spawn the sort of franchise the game did, but there was a second movie that was released direct-to-video in 2019. Oddly, the title of that movie was Doom: Annihilation, just like the original video game adaptation of Mortal Kombat received a sequel called Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. That’s a story for another time – for now, you can hear all about Doom by checking out the video embedded above.

Directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak from a screenplay that was crafted by David Callaham and Wesley Strick, Doom has the following synopsis: Something has gone wrong at a remote scientific research station on Mars. All research has ceased. Communication has failed. And the messages that do get through are less than comforting.

Russell T. Davies, the creator of the Doctor Who remake and the iconic series' spinoff Torchwood, following a futuristic Earth in which nobody ever dies and the crack team assembled to deal with the resulting problems, might bounce.

We can't blame Davies for wanting to move on to new territory; he's just finished writing the fourth series of Doctor Who with the show's fan cult breathing down his neck (many of us Ologists included). He's also been heading up the new 10-part Torchwood: Miracle Day, starring John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness and featuring Mekhi Phifer, Lauren Ambrose plus a recent addition of Doom's Ian Hughes.

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