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Add the andPOP Facebook Application(andPOP) - Dwayne ?The Rock? Johnson (?Walking Tall?, ?The Rundown?) is slated to star as the lead character "Sarge" in Universal Pictures' "Doom," based on the popular series of video games from ID Software.
The premise of the film follows the format of the game: When a Special Ops squadron answers a distress call from a science lab on the planet Olduvai, their investigation reveals that a series of mutant beings are systematically killing off the population there.
Karl Urban (?Lord of the Rings?, ?The Bourne Supremacy?) co-stars as "John Grimm" and Rosamund Pike (?Die Another Day?) as "Samantha."
Director Andrzej Bartkowiak is attached to the film having had previous action experience, most notably in 2000?s ?Romeo Must Die? and 2003?s ?Cradle to the Grave."
The film is set to be released August 5, 2005.
