Showtime to produce film on id's Carmack, Romero?

John Carmack and John Romero, founders of id Software and creators of the seminal PC hit Doom, may be portrayed in a Showtime original movie adaptation of David Kushner's Masters of Doom, says Variety magazine.

Kushner's book about id Software and the creation of the first-person shooter Doom has reportedly been slated for a film adaptation on the subscription-based cable channel. The movie version of Kushner's book is under the control of Naren Shankar, who was an executive producer of Farscape and is currently producing CBS' hit drama CSI.

In an interview with the entertainment magazine, Shankar intimated that he had first heard about 2003's Masters of Doom while reading an engineering journal that had reviewed the book. "It's such a classic American rags-to-riches story. I really suck at the game, but the story of these two twentysomething guys is pretty incredible," said Shankar. "In the spate(sic) of a few years, their idea and technology launched an entire industry based around these first-person shooter games."