{"id":35999,"date":"2026-03-13T19:52:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=35999"},"modified":"2026-03-13T19:52:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:52:36","slug":"rosamund-pike-says-her-doom-movie-with-the-rock-was-probably-one-of-the-worst-films-ever-made-and-could-have-ended-my-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=35999","title":{"rendered":"Rosamund Pike Says Her Doom Movie With The Rock Was ‘Probably One of the Worst Films Ever Made’ and ‘Could Have Ended My Career’"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Rosamund Pike has recalled her experience working on the 2005 Doom movie, which she described as \u201can absolute bomb\u201d that could have ended her career.<\/p>\n

Pike, who played Bond girl Miranda Frost in 2002\u2019s Die Another Day before starring alongside Dwayne \u2018The Rock\u2019 Johnson and Karl Urban in the ill-fated video game adaptation, said she was \u201clucky to have survived\u201d its disastrous release.<\/p>\n

Doom follows Karl Urban\u2019s John Grimm, a marine who is nicknamed “Reaper” by the other members of his squad. In charge is “Sarge,” played by Dwayne Johnson. As with id Software\u2019s shooter series, the marines are stationed at a Martian research facility when everything goes to hell. Among the scientists working there is John’s estranged sister, Samantha (Rosamund Pike).<\/p>\n

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Doom often ranks alongside 1993\u2019s Super Mario Bros. and 1994\u2019s Street Fighter in worst video game movies ever lists. And speaking with Elizabeth Day on the How to Fail podcast, Pike listed Doom as one of her failures.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was making Pride & Prejudice and I was having great fun in my cornfields in my bonnet, I get a call to be in an action franchise,\u201d Pike said. \u201cThey were making a cinema version, a narrative version of the video game Doom. And I think, in my bonnet, in my field of hay bales, ‘Yeah, I can do anything. I can jump on this hay bale in my crinoline, so I can certainly go and kill some zombies on Mars.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOriginally it was with Ray Winstone, that project. And then the whole thing was reimagined, and he was the leader of this bunch of marines going out to this facility in Mars. And I was a scientist out there. And then, for whatever reason Ray Winstone didn’t end up doing it, and he was replaced by Dwayne Johnson, The Rock.<\/p>\n

“So suddenly I\u2019m in this film with The Rock, and I realize how utterly ill-equipped I am to be an action star,\u201d Pike continued. \u201cThe first day I meet Dwayne Johnson, who couldn’t be nicer but is just a completely different beast from 24-year-old RP, who had a team of macho guys around him. There were people pepping him up. There were weights on the set. Every time a gun was brought out it was like a holy relic for the Doom fans. There was the routine before a take. It felt more like a sort of M\u0101ori, All Blacks kind of pre-game warm up, something. I was just out of my comfort zone, out of my league, out of my depth.\u201d<\/p>\n