{"id":475155,"date":"2026-03-14T11:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/475155\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T11:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:45:10","slug":"rosamund-pike-brands-her-2005-sci-fi-with-dwayne-johnson-one-of-the-worst-films-ever-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/475155\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosamund Pike brands her 2005 sci-fi with Dwayne Johnson “one of the worst films ever made”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rosamund Pike has branded her 2005 sci-fi film Doom “one of the worst films ever made”. Based on the popular video game series developed by id Software, Doom stars Pike opposite Dwayne Johnson and Karl Urban as a group of space marines. <\/p>\n

After the group, known as the Rapid Response Tactical Squad, is sent on a rescue mission to a facility on Mars, they encounter some genetically enhanced killing machines. <\/p>\n

Appearing on Tuesday’s episode of the podcast How to Fail With Elizabeth Day<\/a>, Pike opened up about the Andrzej Bartkowiak-directed film, saying she feared it could end her career. <\/p>\n

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“When I was making Pride and Prejudice, and I was having great fun in my cornfields in my bonnet, I get a call to be in an action franchise,” Pike explained. <\/p>\n

She continued: “They’re 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.'”<\/p>\n

According to Pike, the film initially starred Ray Winstone, but the actor was replaced by Johnson “for some reason”. <\/p>\n

She said: “So suddenly I’m in this film with The Rock, and I realise how utterly ill-equipped I am to be an action star.”<\/p>\n

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Pike explained that Johnson had a “team of macho guys around him”, saying: “There were weights on the set. Every time a gun was brought out, it was kind of like a holy relic for the Doom fans\u2026 I was just out of my comfort zone, out of my league, out of my depth.”<\/p>\n

Following its release, Doom struggled at the box office and was panned by critics. On Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, the film has an abysmal score of 18% from 133 reviews. <\/p>\n

Speaking about the film’s reception, Pike said: “The film was an absolute bomb. I mean, I probably could have ended my career. It was just probably one of the worst films ever made. I mean, it was a catastrophe. You get the sense like you’re lucky to have survived that one.”<\/p>\n

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Reporter, Digital Spy<\/p>\n

Harriet is a freelance news writer specialising in TV<\/a> and movies<\/a> at Digital Spy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A horror enthusiast, she joined Digital Spy after working on her own horror website, reviewing films and focusing largely on feminism in the genre.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In her spare time, Harriet paints and produces mixed-media art. She graduated from the University of Kingston with a BA in fine art, where she specialised in painting. She also has an MA in journalism from Birkbeck University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rosamund Pike has branded her 2005 sci-fi film Doom “one of the worst films ever made”. Based on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[147950,379,169371,381,96,1156,2839,169370,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-475155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-f71203e4-f20a-4873-921e-26da9a146426","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-locale-gb","tag-movies","tag-shorttitle-rosamund-pike-on-one-of-the-worst-films-ever-made","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}