New Mortal Kombat flick?

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by tacticslion

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/k...-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]

Originally Posted by tacticslion

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.

[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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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.