10 Great Movie Ideas Let Down By Their Budget

In the mid 90's, fresh off the back of the success of Doom II, Universal eventually decided to put their time and money into a Doom movie that would adapt a few elements from the third game in the franchise.

A hefty $60 million was handed over to the production team, so fans were excited to see the creatures they had grown up fighting come to life.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Vin Diesel were both offered a role in the feature, only to turn it down - not a good first sign for the film's prospects.

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson would finally sign on the dotted line and joined Karl Urban and Rosamund Pike to form a cast of decent ability, yet there was still no one with the clout of Diesel or Arnie attached. Still, at least the game's monsters would keep us interested, right?

When it was released in 2005, all that terror and fear that the original gaming experience provoked was replaced by groans when the aliens were seen for the first time. Word travelled fast and it became quickly apparent that next to no one wanted to watch a badly executed version of a beloved video game, evidenced in the film's $55.9 million return.

It's a lot to ask of a rated R film that already had a decent amount of money behind it, but with a couple extra million in the bank Universal could have attached a bigger star or really gone to town on the visuals - bearing in mind this was the same year as Peter Jackson's King Kong.