New Mortal Kombat flick?

[Sky Warrior Bob]

Be forewarned, this is a bit graphic & not something that's safe for work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_MqZn7E-mk&feature=player_embedded

Personally, I'm not totally sold on this realistic move for Mortal Kombat, but it does seem a tad more interesting than what MK eventually ended up being. Of course, the thread where I found this (http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=69975) suggested that this could also be a opening movie, for a restart of the MK franchise.

Not sure, but its at least semi interesting.

SWB

[Carade]

Having Reptile be a Harlequin baby does have a sort of twisted brilliance to it.

[Magus]

Pros: Scorpion is main character, he's more interesting than Liu Kang or Kung Lao; follows tournament format.

Cons: Is Scorpion even portrayed by Japanese actor? They showed his face for all of two seconds; Johnny Cage is dead before the movie even starts, apparently, which is even worse than dying five seconds into Annihilation; removal of supernatural elements makes me wonder what the heck Sub-Zero is going to be all about; why even include Baraka at all if you're removing the supernatural elements of having mutants and demons and so on?; Shang Tsung is also kind of pointless as well, since he won't even be stealing souls this time around, nor actually changing form into the other characters; Deacon City is a dumb name.

This is going to be an actual movie, I'm pretty sure, it is not the opening movie for a reboot of the game franchise, they wouldn't do that with real actors, it would be CGI and would probably be closer to the game universe as already created. Plus I don't think they'd get Michael Jai White to play in a simple video game opening.

[Kim]

They took a game where a talking head will come out from the side of the screen and go "Whoopsie!" and several fatalities were in there because they were hilarious, a game where the premise was just... dumb, and they made it SUPER SERIOUS GRIMDARK I AM THE GODDAMN BATMAN stupid. Also, there's no way that's a movie trailer.

[Magus]

Is it just because of how bloody it is? It might be a redband trailer...I don't get why they're changing all their back story for a new game, dumb as it is, no one ever cared about the back story in the first place (because it was so dumb).

[Lumenskir]

Also, there's no way that's a movie trailer.
Smart money is saying that its a teaser to drum up possible investor interest; If they can show that fans are interested, they can get capital to make it a reality.

[Kim]

Smart money is saying that its a teaser to drum up possible investor interest; If they can show that fans are interested, they can get capital to make it a reality.

And it's just coincidentally airing the week before E3? I don't buy it. It's not an opening to the game either. It's a video to get people interested in this NEW EDGY TAKE on MK, and then they'll reveal the NEW EDGY MK GAME COMING SOON TO THE PS3 AND 360 and it will be stupid.

[Magus]

Have they ever covered video game movies at E3?

It seems weird that it would be to drum up investor interest...maybe it's some direct-to-DVD thing...or the next MK game is going to be worse than ever with live-action cinematics...

[krogothwolf]

And it's just coincidentally airing the week before E3? I don't buy it. It's not an opening to the game either. It's a video to get people interested in this NEW EDGY TAKE on MK, and then they'll reveal the NEW EDGY MK GAME COMING SOON TO THE PS3 AND 360 and it will be stupid.

How is this anymore stupid then the last few games have gotten?

[Lumenskir]

And it's just coincidentally airing the week before E3? I don't buy it. It's not an opening to the game either. It's a video to get people interested in this NEW EDGY TAKE on MK, and then they'll reveal the NEW EDGY MK GAME COMING SOON TO THE PS3 AND 360 and it will be stupid.
Uhh...ok. Just don't let the black helicopters know you know. (http://www.latinoreview.com/news/mortal-kombat-fans-this-is-the-hard-r-mk-movie-you-ve-been-waiting-for-10164)

[Magus]

The last one I enjoyed was Deadly Alliance. Story was straight-forward (and they killed off Liu Kang, it was unexpected!) and it introduced the new gameplay which was pretty great...after that it went downhill, partly because they switched up how Scorpion played from DA and I couldn't get back in my groove, and then they added in some dumb "Make your own fatality" into the last one that came out, so none of them were unique to the characters, and they made everyone only have two fighting styles too, if I remember correctly...the only offset was it had basically every MK character ever made in it.

[Aerozord]

taking out all the supernatural elements basically just makes it a generic action flick. Its a "in name only" version

[Magus]

What's funny is it's exactly what should have been done with that last Street Fighter movie since they did it for 99.9% of it but then they still put energy balls into it, whereas flames and ice beams should be in this one...

[Krylo]

So Reptile is a Harlequin Baby that not only somehow survived for thirty years with a debilitating physical illness that modern science can't treat, but he is apparently not blind with his inside out eyes, and is strong enough to rip the head off a body with his bare hands without even missing a beat... but there's no magic?

Meanwhile, the police are releasing an assassin into the streets with explicit orders to kill everyone involved in an underground fighting ring, as opposed to say... using him to find when it is happening and raiding it with goddamn tanks and machine guns? They are relying entirely on a single assassin who isn't even keen on helping them?

And Baraka is a psycho plastic surgeon who somehow became a super ninja or some shit because he went crazy?

It's like the people behind this looked at the series and thought, "You know, having a fighting tournament to decide which of two merging universes will survive because 'magic' is PRETTY stupid, but guys, I think we can do better. I'm pretty sure we can come up with something even MORE stupid, if given the chance."

And then they did. Repeatedly.

[Bells]

You know... the story premise for Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Iron Man and all their "Quasi-magic-super-real-stuff" is also pretty "ridonculous" too.. you guys look like bullies picking on the ugly kid in high school right now...

I dunno, they haven't -really- ruled out Supernatural elements yet. This trailer just makes clear that the Supernatural is not the main point. So far, that's ok... also, i have no problem with Super-Fantasy in a realistic setting. It's GRIMDARK as all fuck... but hey, that's the most effor i've EVER seen to give a Mortal Kombat product ANY sense of a real storyline...

Also, this is a movie based on a Fighting game. those are the worst of the adaptation movies. I dare any of you to pick one of those that looks remotely watchable... this one does.

PS: They could easily be making the movie and the game at the same time.

[Kim]

this one does

Not really. It looks like something a teenager would write.

"And... and... Reptile! He eats people's HEADS. It'll be SO GROSS you guys."

[Krylo]

You know... the story premise for Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Iron Man and all their "Quasi-magic-super-real-stuff" is also pretty "ridonculous" too..

None of those come remotely close to being as stupid as this.

And really, a lot of the stupid stuff would be fine, if they weren't trying to go all REALISTIC GRIM DARK! with the franchise. Like, ok a Harlequin baby grows up and has super strength and like, I don't know, probably super toughness 'cause his skin is so hard.

I could get behind that in a movie that wasn't trying to remove supernatural/unrealistic aspects from its franchise.

However, in this movie we have, "Reptillian Alien Thing From Another Dimension is TOO UNREALISTIC, so let's replace it with this EQUALLY IF NOT EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS HARLEQUIN BABY IDEA!" which is retarded. Putting in blatantly unrealistic/ridiculous things and/or abusing the fuck out of science is fine in most situations. It's not fine when you're doing it because you thought the original quasi-magic roots were too unrealistic, because quasi-science is even worse.

[Bells]

Not really. It looks like something a teenager would write.

"And... and... Reptile! He eats people's HEADS. It'll be SO GROSS you guys."

Oh c'mon now... The Mystical game-based reptile does that. Nothing absurd for a Nomral Human Detective (that has no problem with dealing with a killer in order to kill a bunch of other killers btw) to get repulsed by that, specially since in this case the reptile is apparently a human psychopath.

Sure, it's Edgy and Darky and Grimmy... c'mon it's a Teenager Gore Flick, what would you expect from Mortal Kombat?

It's not too bad considering the source material...

http://ui10.gamespot.com/745/selectionstory4_2.jpg

[Krylo]

Oh c'mon now... The Mystical game-based reptile does that. Nothing absurd for a Nomral Human Detective (that has no problem with dealing with a killer in order to kill a bunch of other killers btw) to get repulsed by that, specially since in this case the reptile is apparently a human psychopath.

Sure, it's Edgy and Darky and Grimmy... c'mon it's a Teenager Gore Flick, what would you expect from Mortal Kombat?

It's not too bad considering the source material...

http://ui10.gamespot.com/745/selectionstory4_2.jpg

No see, the source material was completely retarded and ridiculous. The fact that the movie is ALSO completely retarded and ridiculous isn't the problem in and of itself.

The problem is that the movie removes all the retarded/ridiculous things from the game, and then replaces them with more/equally retarded/ridiculous things of their own invention that have nothing to do with the franchise. They aren't making it more realistic, or more grimdark, or anything like that. They're just making it unrealistic and stupid and grimdark in different ways and it is pointless and stupid and a disservice to the franchise.

Edit: Comparison, someone makes a Legend of Zelda movie.

They rewrite Link as a grizzled off the beat detective, and Zelda as the president's daughter. Ganon is a South American terrorist that kidnapped her. The triforce is actually a codename for a nuclear weapon.

That movie is completely retarded NOT because an off the beat detective is rescuing the president's daughter from a South American terrorist who wants nuclear weapons. It's completely retarded because there's absolutely no reason to connect it to Legend of Zelda.

[Kim]

There's also a large gap between what is acceptable in a fighting game with the most plot being a cutscene in the beginning that nobody really watched and a two hour movie of this stupid. Plus, regardless of if it's a game or movie, I get the impression that this expects us to take this stuff a lot more seriously than Mortal Kombat normally seems to.

[Bells]

But isn't that the main spirit of a Reboot? This is not some sort of Alternate version, or "another vision", this is them tossing all the old shit out and retooling all concepts from scratch, i mean, comparing this with a previous entry in the franchise wouldn't be like comparing "Batman & Robin" with "Batman Begins"?

I'm not really dismissing what you guys are saying, this trailer made me curious to learn more about what they are REALLY doing with the franchise... but i heard "reboot" and i automatically dismissed what i knew from the franchise, now i'm judging this one by where it's trying to go, not by where it came from.

[Kim]

Where it's trying to go is stupid. I wouldn't watch it if it had nothing to do with Mortal Kombat. I'm certainly not interested now that it's trying to cram in stupid Mortal Kombat stuff in.

[Lumenskir]

Guys, I'm gonna break it to you: Studios buy videogame names because they know that 1) the general public has some vague recognition of the name and 2) all videogame stories are either nonexistent or so inconsequential that the average gamer even can't give a decent recap of them. This gives them free reign to take a generic genre script they have gathering dust in a drawer somewhere and find+replace some character names*, release it with a brand name, and hopefully make some money off DVD sales at the very least.

The only people that get hurt are the true fans. Even sadder, they get double hurt, since everyone else laughs at how seriously they take the whole process.

*If this practice sounds familiar, it's probably because it's the standard operating procedure of writing videogame stories in the first place.

[Kim]

2) all videogame stories are either nonexistent or so inconsequential that the average gamer even can't give a decent recap of them.

This is nonsense and you know it.

[The Sevenshot Kid]

As someone whose only exposer to MK is the movie, this looks stupid. The Prince of Persia route should be taken; choose some characters and elements you like to craft a new story. Oh wait, that is what they're doing. Who knows, maybe the whole "underground fight ring" thing will be the actual Mortal Kombat tournament.

[Krylo]

Honestly this premise would make a decent KoF movie, which kinda just makes it all the more 'wtf?' with the MK branding.

[Lumenskir]

This is nonsense and you know it.
Sorry, forgot RPGs. Nonexistent, inconsequential, or furious faffing.

[Krylo]

Yeah, because no one thinks Half-Life or Bioshock are special as FPS games because of their stories, philosophies and interesting antagonists.

Nope, it's the totally rehashed and unimaginative FPS combat that made them such big hits.

[Seil]

If you hit pause fast enough, you can catch Sub-Zero:

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u59/Poetisch/subzero.jpg

[POS Industries]

Hey it looks like Lumen's just in here saying shit to rile up people.

That's a stupid thing to do on an internet forum where we have rules against that.

[BitVyper]

So Reptile is a Harlequin Baby that not only somehow survived for thirty years with a debilitating physical illness that modern science can't treat

Just looking at wiki, treatment is apparently a lot better now, with the oldest survivor being twenty six at the moment.


They rewrite Link as a grizzled off the beat detective, and Zelda as the president's daughter. Ganon is a South American terrorist that kidnapped her. The triforce is actually a codename for a nuclear weapon.

I'm having a hard time seeing how this wouldn't be awesome. Can Impa be the chief of police who makes Link turn in his badge?

Edit: I mean, it's about a million times better than the "FFVII but with Link" hoax.

[Magus]

Well at least Sub-Zero is now apparently a robot. Unless that's an oxygen mask because, like, he has to breath icy air or his lungs will catch on fire because he's incredibly sensitive to high temperatures like Mr. Freeze. Also he likes to rape children.

[Bells]

A Cyborg ninja assassin that has super low internal body temperature, and can cause you to die from Hypothermia just by punching you repeatedly and also don't have a heat signature, making him even harder to spot.

I know it's stupid, but there is margin where stupid and awesome can co-exist!

[Magus]

I thought it was pretty cool when he chopped off Scorpion's arms and legs, disemboweled him, and murdered his family while he drowned in a river, before one of the Elder Gods gave him a chance at revenge by returning him to life to seek vengeance. But hey that's just me and some good old fashioned video game novelization reading (by Jeff Rovin).

[Sky Warrior Bob]

Personally, I'm just taking a wait & see attitude. This isn't something that looks like a must see, but might be worth renting. Or maybe as more enfolds, I might actually look forward to this.

As far as the lack of mysticism, well it is called Mortal Kombat. The whole mortal element is kinda implied. Plus, the movie isn't necessarily devoid of mysticism, just the Kombatants.

SWB
- Of course, if this does turn out to be a game. That would be interesting. Having a MK game with movie-level cutscenes would certainly be interesting. If you throw in a return to realistic looking playable characters, that might be interesting.

[tacticslion]

Nonsie, I hear your objections, and Krylo's right: the bad science is awful.

The thing is? This is probably far, far more acceptable to the majority of the movie-going public. Stupid as it is, it seems that bad (read: "non-") science is more likely to generate views than out-and-out magic, as the latter is more strongly identified with EPIC works like Lord of the Rings, or NERD stuff like Dungeons and Dragons (the movie, too). Action flicks with magic probably don't have much of a chance. I'm not saying that it's right, just that this is what it seems to me, as a reason for them doing this.

Plus, as has been mentioned it's so far a downplay of the mystical elements, not a complete rejection of them. We really don't know how this will turn out, though it certainly seems devoid of mystacism so far. It's quite possible they'd end up going for the more literal 'spiritual' world (literally means "unseen" world) to try to both up the creepiness factor of such stuff and cut down on special effects budget (which they seem to be spending on actors instead?).

As far as what they've done so far: it seems that Johnny Cage is dead. But again, this could be deceptive - we don't know what spiritual elements they're going to put (if any) and, hey, we don't know what other Maciavellian plot twists they're going to pull ("it was really his stunt double, gasp"!). We don't know. It could very easily be crap. I'm not expecting anything resembling a masterpiece: this is a videogame movie, after all, and those have a history of not ending well. But there's been a lot of "man everything they're doing sucks!" with the given reason of "they changed everything important!" which doesn't make sense. I mean, the magic elements which were just an excuse for the violence in the first place.

And the whole grim-dark-blargh thing: really? This really bothers you guys that much? MORTAL KOMBAT going "gritty", when originally that was exactly how it billed itself (compared to Street Fighter) seriously upsets you guys? I mean, I think - mysticism aside - this trailer is far, far closer to the original "core" of the game idea than anything they've put out since: that of over-the-top, gory violence done in semi-comprehensible ways. That was always the essence of Mortal Kombat - it's what set it apart from the other (usually better) fighters out there. The fantasy elements were always just a window dressing so they could have excuses to launch occasional fireballs and come up with creative ways to disembowel people. Street Fighter was usually far more High Fantasy (in terms of 'magic' powers of the participents) than MK, outside of the gods themselves.

Anyhoo, I'm done. I'd say we can't expect a masterpiece of any kind (although I could be wrong), but honestly, outside of (from what I've heard) the Prince of Persia, this seems like it could be one of the better video game adaptations to have come along. Did they change stuff? Yeah. Is it unrealistic? Yeah. Is it more accessible to the 'common' movie viewer? Probably. This, combined with the word "reboot", as Bells mentioned, makes these sorts of changes seem more acceptible to me. I dunno. I'll admit, I've never been a big MK fan. But this certainly seems to hold the spirit of the original games more than either of the movies did.

[Magus]

I'm not really against the grim-darkness, it just seems a little forced. Frankly reptilian cannibals aren't really scary to me, and you don't automatically make them so by showing them in dim lighting and so on, you can't force them to seem grim-dark just with moodlighting and scary music. There's a certain style and tone to the trailer which can be a turn-off even if you don't mind grim-darkness and think it's appropriate to the series.

I thought it was cooler when Scorpion speared that guy through the throat, honestly. Everything else was kind of underwhelming. At least they appear to be trying in their attempt to make this movie, though...I've already seen worse adaptations than this would probably end up being if it's a movie.

You know what they should do is make it self-aware and make it like Punisher: War Zone, I"d love it then. The movie should be aware of it "grim darkness" and play to that. It'll be much more entertaining than a straight adaptation.

[Kim]

This is probably far, far more acceptable to the majority of the movie-going public.

This implies I give a damn what the "majority of the movie-going public" thinks. I don't. Remotely. The Transformers movies did well. I found the first painful to watch, and I'm not even a Transformers fan.

[Bells]

So far i haven't heard any props to the whole Johnny cage / Baraka fight in the trailer. And it's a damn shame. I thought it was quite a cool looking little brawl and also better than any fight in any Mortal Kombat movie.

[tacticslion]

This implies I give a damn what the "majority of the movie-going public" thinks. I don't. Remotely. The Transformers movies did well. I found the first painful to watch, and I'm not even a Transformers fan. Really it implied that you do about anything. Looking at your new avatar makes me pretty sure you hate everything that exists anyway, so...

(note: I don't actually like Transformers movie)

So far i haven't heard any props to the whole Johnny cage / Baraka fight in the trailer. And it's a damn shame. I thought it was quite a cool looking little brawl and also better than any fight in any Mortal Kombat movie.

Okay: props! There!

... what you want specifics? Fine: I did think it looked quite good, and the way Baraka used his blades works very well with the original intent of the game (the "fatality"). Really, that's one of the things that made me wonder if it was faked - the entire fight looked like an action movie fight should, and especially since they were talking about a retired action movie star...

As far as Baraka himself goes, to me, if he put the things in his arms in the first place I'd expect him to use them more, but then again, I always wondered why he didn't simply spear people in the old games. Using them as defensive 'shields' and offensive weapons is a fairly good idea, though it'd probably be a better one for most opponents to just go in swinging the things like mad. Of course, then again, he is mad (and insane too!), so you can probably 'justify' his behavior (to a point) with that.

Finally, and with this I'm done, 'cause I'm not really a fan anyway, as far as the 'horror' factor goes, I don't think of it as 'scary' so much as 'gorey' and 'disgusting', which is pretty much what MK was all about: gorey ways of inflicting death on others.

This brings me to another point: the very idea of sequels to the game were nonsense - in order to win the first time, everyone would have had to die (except for that one character you played as). They couldn't viably reappear later (although MK sometimes tried to get around this, by 'reincarnating' some and having other siblings take up the mantle for others). Still, such a thing would necessitate restarting every once in a while anyway, and if they just republished the exact same thing, it would be boring. I recognize that, as fans of the original or whatever, you'd like it to be like the 'old style', but that nostalgia, it just didn't work in this case.

Oh, and krylo:
Actually, it takes place in the soviet era, and the triforce would be a series of nazi-era uber weapons controlled by a computer program that was shattered into fragments across the globe (by the president's daughter, natch') that Link and Ganon would be in a race to gather first. Link would then learn how to wield a sword as he fought Ganon's thugs and enforcers (called "pigs") and gain a special one called the 'master sword' which is really a hacking tool (get it?) that would allow him to "hack" into the main control system of Ganon's reconstituted triforce of 'power' (a space station! in space!) and defeat it once and for all, leaving it falling to earth in flames! Ganon, however, would send a text to Link's iphone two years later...

EDIT: the sequel would take place sixty years later in the far-flung future of 2015 (they have flying cars and hoverboards then), wherein Link was a grizzled ancient retired detective who had saved the world from environmental collapse by erecting a giant, ugly, orange energy shield with the triforce of wisdom, right? Well, then he learns (from Zelda the third) that it really is okay up there now, and so he goes on a madcap adventure (resurrecting Mr. Tingle, his staunch ally from the first film) and discovering that he (and Tingle and Ganon) are really aliens from another world sent here eons ago! And he's immortal! By the end, he regains his (relative) youth, and 'ascends' into space with/without Zelda the third (his love interest, actually a descendant of a cousin of Zelda from the first movie who died of Melanoma four years after it ended), depending on the version you watch!

[Krylo]

Oh, and krylo:
Actually, it takes place in the soviet era, and the triforce would be a series of nazi-era uber weapons controlled by a computer program that was shattered into fragments across the globe (by the president's daughter, natch') that Link and Ganon would be in a race to gather first. Link would then learn how to wield a sword as he fought Ganon's thugs and enforcers (called "pigs") and gain a special one called the 'master sword' which is really a hacking tool (get it?) that would allow him to "hack" into the main control system of Ganon's reconstituted triforce of 'power' (a space station! in space!) and defeat it once and for all, leaving it falling to earth in flames! Ganon, however, would send a text to Link's iphone two years later...

Nah, the triforce is the code needed to activate the orbital nuclear system on the military satellite codenamed 'Golden Land', and designed by the legendary female German scientists known as Din, Farore, and Naryu. Collectively the Nazis refer to them as their 'Golden Goddesses'--a play on their Aryan features.

The triforce code would be contained on three RFID chips, one implanted in the president's daughter for safekeeping, one stolen by Ganon and implanted in his own hand, while Link would attain the third near the beginning of the movie, having it implanted to keep it safe.

Meanwhile, the Master Sword would actually be the code name of the state's newest shuttle craft, with stealth capabilities and a program capable of hacking the docking codes to the golden land.

[Bells]

One of the things that, looking at the comments online and something that I like about it is the whole — you’re setting it in the real world without the supernatural thing. So everyone is sort of — it’s a very real-world, grounded kind of feel. Obviously, a lot of fans out there are probably hoping you are going to land being able to do the movie. Is this your take on what would be your feature film?


KT: Oh, yeah. Definitely, this is my take on what I would want to do with Mortal Kombat. I would love it if Warner Bros. wanted to do it this way. But I was so passionate about doing this, that I just had to pick up the camera and do it. Now like I said, because I am such a fan of the Mortal Kombat series, I know there’s a lot of concern about the mysticism and the special powers and all that kind of stuff. Well, like I said, this is really designed — the short so far is really designed like a prologue to the movie. Now, in a movie version, I am going to have that mysticism there, but it has to be done in a very tasteful way. I wouldn’t like it too campy or too cheesy. I know this is a weird analogy, but it’s the best one I can think of right now. It’s kind of like when in Harry Potter, there’s two universes that coexist with each other. There’s the real world, and then you get on the train and then you go to Hogwart’s, and that’s where all the magic is. It was actually kind of similar in the first Mortal Kombat, too. They had to get on the ship and go to the island, and that’s where all the crazy stuff happened.


So that’s essentially what I want to do with this movie, but I want to do it tastefully. I don’t want it to be over the top, too much wirework. I think one of the reasons why I chose such a gritty, grounded base was because I am such a huge fan of movies like Flashpoint, Kill Zone, The Protector, Ong-bak. I came at that from a choreography end and lately I’ve been a little tired of the wirework Crouching Tiger style of martial arts and really gravitated towards a hard hitting, in-your-face, ground-and-pound, just going for it kind of martial arts when Tony Jaa burst into the pop zeitgeist. So that was one thing I did want to make sure I was going to be able to do, and it wasn’t going to be too over the top with fireballs and electricity. Even though I do want to have that in there.


But I really feel like there has to be limitations to it. There has to be rules. Because when you take a special move, and you make it indisposable, to me it’s no longer special. It has to all come from something that has a little bit of limitation to it. I think whenever I talk about stuff like this, I always give the analogy of the whole Matrix trilogy. I personally only really love the first one, because I feel like that’s the only one that had personal stakes with Neo. He had limitations. He had obstacles that he had to overcome. His powers were limited. But once you got him there, it was amazing. The other two, not so much. When he turned into a CG character, and he has the big metal pipe, and he’s killing eight thousand versions of Agent Smith. When I saw that for the first time, I felt like Peter Griffin trying to make it through Failure to Launch. He got up and just said, “Done.” I tuned out it because it wasn’t real for me anymore. I didn’t really feel like there were any obstacles to overcome. So with all that mysticism, I want to infuse it. But I also want to infuse it with a little bit more of a demonic presence, as opposed to an Asian mysticism presence, so that it feels a little bit more evil. That’s the thing about Mortal Kombat.

I love that it was all the bad things. It was evil, it was bloody. It was your way of being twelve and rebelling. “I’m not gonna play Sonic the Hedgehog — I’m gonna play Mortal Kombat.” I definitely want to incorporate all of that stuff, but I want to incorporate it in a very tasteful way. Not in an over the top, campy way, where everyone one is just throwing fireballs, and throwing electricity, and having an unlimited supply of special moves. Because then, if you do that, to me they’re not special anymore at all. And I want to incorporate all of the very iconic things that have made Mortal Kombat so special. I think, obviously one of the more iconic ones is Scorpion having a flaming skull. However, you have to take in mind that that’s also Ghost Rider. You have to really be clever with how you’re going to do that. You can’t just do it again. It just won’t look good anymore. So that would be my movie version if I ever get to be lucky enough to to do something like that.


http://www.collider.com/2010/06/09/kevin-tancharoen-interview-mortal-kombat-rebirth-feature-film/

It's an interview with the guy who made the short film and he is really serious about trying to turn this into a full movie.

[Naqel]

the sequel would take place sixty years later in the far-flung future of 2015 (they have flying cars and hoverboards then), wherein Link was a grizzled ancient retired detective who had saved the world from environmental collapse by erecting a giant, ugly, orange energy shield with the triforce of wisdom, right? Well, then he learns (from Zelda the third) that it really is okay up there now, and so he goes on a madcap adventure (resurrecting Mr. Tingle, his staunch ally from the first film) and discovering that he (and Tingle and Ganon) are really aliens from another world sent here eons ago! And he's immortal! By the end, he regains his (relative) youth, and 'ascends' into space with/without Zelda the third (his love interest, actually a descendant of a cousin of Zelda from the first movie who died of Melanoma four years after it ended), depending on the version you watch!

Hehe, good thing I caught up with the history of bad sequels. :cool:

[Premmy]

Was Barakka Lateef Crowder? dreds, Some handstand kicks, was that Lateef Crowder? I love Lateef Crowder, have I mentioned I'm very fond of Lateef Crowder?

I really got the sense that the freaky-deaky mysticism was gonna be in the dark all the time, but there.
*shrug*
I'd see it.

[Jagos]

So far i haven't heard any props to the whole Johnny cage / Baraka fight in the trailer. And it's a damn shame. I thought it was quite a cool looking little brawl and also better than any fight in any Mortal Kombat movie.

MKI, Johnny Cage vs Scorpion was a pretty good brawl in Hell.

[BitVyper]

I thought it was quite a cool looking little brawl and also better than any fight in any Mortal Kombat movie.

Fuck you, Johnny Cage beating Goro was awesome.

[Aerozord]

nut shot for the win

[Magus]

I almost want to rewatch that movie now, if only for the Shang Tsung match with the dragon symbol made out of spikes...

[BitVyper]

Everything about that movie was awesome except that Liu Kang needed a riddle-hint to remember that water turns into ice.