Gone Girl’ star Rosamund Pike made some pretty blunt comments during her appearance on Elizabeth Day’s podcast ‘How To Fail’. She said ‘Doom’, the 2005 video game adaptation she made with Dwayne Johnson, ranks among the worst films ever made, and honestly, she sounded almost impressed that she made it through.
It is the kind of quote that grabs attention because Pike is usually so measured. But here, she was direct. She knew the film had gone badly. She knew she was wrong for it. And now, she seems perfectly comfortable admitting all of that.
Rosamund Pike Says ‘Doom’ Went Off the Rails Fast
While reflecting on the early years of her career, Pike said things started strongly with ‘Die Another Day’, which gave her a big-screen launch. Then came ‘Pride & Prejudice’, where she was happily working in corsets and bonnets, only to get an offer that pulled her in the exact opposite direction.
That project was ‘Doom’, Universal’s 2005 attempt to turn the hit video game into a sci-fi action franchise. Pike admitted that, at the time, she probably overestimated how easily she could jump from period drama into Mars-set chaos. In her mind, if she could run through fields in full costume, maybe she could also fight monsters in space. But things did not go her way.
Pike said the movie first seemed set to star Ray Winstone, but by the time she got into the thick of it, Dwayne Johnson had taken the lead, back when he was still billed as ‘The Rock’. That only made the scale of the whole thing feel bigger, and she quickly realized she was nowhere near her comfort zone.
“Suddenly I’m in this film with The Rock, and I realise how utterly ill-equipped I am to be an action star,” she stated. “I was just out of my comfort zone, out of my league, out of my depth, and the film was an absolute bomb,” Rosamund continued. “I probably could have ended my career. I mean, it was just probably one of the worst films ever made. It was a catastrophe, I think.”
All’s Well That Ends Well
Pike wrapped it up on a relatively positive note, saying, “As I say, I don’t read the reviews, but you get the sense like you are lucky to have survived that one. But then, it wasn’t career-ending for The Rock. Or me, as it turned out.”
The Rock kept building his action-star image, and Pike eventually carved out a much more interesting screen career with films like ‘An Education’, ‘Gone Girl’, and ‘Saltburn’.
Pike says the experience taught her something simple but useful. She should have done more homework before signing on. She admitted she did not know enough about video games and was not the right fit for that world.
That may be the sharpest part of her reflection. She is not just mocking an old flop. She is owning the fact that she walked into the wrong movie at the wrong time and learned from it.
