New Mortal Kombat movie
 

A new MK movie could be in the work.

http://enewsi.com/movies/190-17690.html

Yeah, saw this earlier. Looks awesome.

I just saw this today. I liked it. It would be cool to see a different, more realistic and serious take on the characters from MK. I'd see a movie like that. The later games haven't been that great, but as a longtime fan of the series, I'm always interested to see where they're going with the franchise next.

If this is really what the new movie will be like, I am so on board.

Holy **** I would totally see this.

I couldn't believe that this was just a short 7 min film. It felt like it should be so much more and I hope it gets the chance to be. I would be in line for a midnight showing.

I like the Se7en, R-rated feel of it, but I don't like scraping away all the mythology of things there. I mean, I'm OK if they want to tone down the costumes and all that... but a pretty integral part of Mortal Kombat is the whole mythology of it, Outworld, all that. I feel like "Raiden" would be like a disgruntled power company man by this mini film.

Neat concept, dumb idea to make the costumes "realistic". It was a bad idea in X-men and it's still a bad idea now. Leave the god damn costumes alone. As silly as it sounds that does bother me quite a bit. That aside though they went a good direction with it I just don't hold out much hope for it being any good.

NO....NO....NO...I'm sorry, but that is not Mortal Kombat. Looks nothing like Mortal Kombat. ;/ And Jax is not spelled "Jacks", it is spelled "Jax". And why is Baraka look like a human now?

looks freakin' awesome, but not so fan of removing the unnatural elements.
hopefully third time is a charm.



Jackson "Jax" Briggs

Well you could already assume that when Warner bought the franchise from Midway it was guaranteed to abandon its "arcade" roots and go mainstream. Sad, but you're probably stuck with it for life. I'd be more annoyed if the series wasn't completely played out before the sale -- which it was.

Either way, this looks cool, but I'm still more interested in what Boon is cooking up for a true next-gen Mortal Kombat game. I just hope pressure from Warner to cross-promote doesn't wind up making the game suffer from "movie tie-in syndrome".

Excellent production values, but not my kinda movie... It seems too much like a cheesey horror film with a good bit of pruning away of the original concepts. The first MK film was my ideal. The second was beyond pathetic though.

You people will bitch about anything.

Looks really well done, and more interesting than the last few Mortal Kombat live action stuff we were given (no, I'm not counting the first movie in that statement).

Don't get me wrong its an enjoyable short film take on MK but as the reboot this is awful. BTW This was done to pitch to Warner (who now owns Midway/MK) a hard R MK movie.

We knew that Armageddon was the last MK game on that story and that the new one would be a new story. So kind of a reboot but if this is what they were going for this is terrible. I thought they'd either start again from the beginning or bring an entirely new cast not this. If this is what they filmed then I'm guessing MK 9 will have a similar look/theme and thats terrible.

MK is all about Martial Arts, over the top violence and its Mythology, you can make a movie feel like MK with a PG-13 rating since the violence is just fun over the top an R-rating would be very nice but its not essential to make it feel like MK. Now MK is NOT a realistic world and realistic violence, even having an R rated movie would not feel like MK. In fact this realistic takes on the characters just made me cringe, they feel out of a B-horror movie. This is no different than the realistic take on the Street Fighter Mythos with The Legend of Chun Li.

Only good thing is I'm sure this will fail so hard that they'll have to come back to the original MK mythos.

Jerri Ryan?

That is all...

Things that are different scare me! I want everything to be the same forever and ever.

Yeah, but releasing SF2 a dozen different times, then having the newest sequel in the series be almost exactly the same game isn't played out at all. Noooo. MKvsDC didn't totally retool the 3D MK games and make them more fun than they've been since UMK3. Not at all.

Anyways, don't like it. I always hate when people take something known for being over-the-top and fanciful and try to put a realistic spin on it. I don't like Mortal Kombat because there are dudes making each other bleed in it. I like MK because Liu Kang turns into a dragon, Kung Lao cuts people in half with his hat, Scorpion is Hellspawn who breathes fire, and Goro is a four-armed half-dragon who can punch someone's head off their neck.

F*ck realistic sh*t.

felt like a marvel noir twist on mortal kombat.

Have to disagree. The whole thing about Mortal Kombat, the biggest thing to set it aside from things like Street Fighter and everything else, pretty much its hallmark, is the blood, gore, and Fatalities.

If they can make a Mortal Kombat movie that can show hearts getting ripped out of chests or still-attached-to-head spines ripped out of backs in past the MPAA in PG-13... more power to them. I just don't think it's possible, and to neuter it of such just seems silly.

Looks like this one will be rated R.. or it won't be worth all the blood, gore and Fatalities..

well this ain't your daddy's Mortal Kombat that's for sure. right after watching this, i'm now like wtf is this?

yeah i'll maybe give the first two movis this, they were bad, but at least they stayed true to the franchise and gave us familiar versions of the characters.

this, this don't give me familiar versions of the characters. not everyone is going to look at it and be like "oh yeah i can tell that's who that's suppossed to be". the characters look nothing like their gaming counterparts. and Johny Cage dies in it? wtf?

nah, if this is a taste of things to come, i can't get on board with this "reboot"

My daddy doesn't have a Mortal Kombat... :ohwell:

Yeah. That never happened before........wait.

lol :tlol:

my point is why do it again. Johny Cage is a good character. :ohwell:

That's exactly why they kill Cage all the time. He's likeable so you actually give a crap when he dies.

I am so happy I can watch rated R movies now.... that looks way to epic. Scorpion and Reptile are way past cool.

What year are you from? Are you channeling Jaleel White as Sonic the Hedgehog?

yeah i guess. but damn it i don't like it! :tgrumble:

Even though I know you're being sarcastic, I truly wish more people DID feel this way. I can not stand it when people try to fix things that are not broken and do not need to be changed. "Change" can end up being a far worse tragic/destructive mistake to any franchise than no change at all. I've seen "change" destroy far more often than it saves.

Interview with the director:
http://www.collider.com/2010/06/09/k...-feature-film/

This still feels very weird me. A pitch that appears in the web probably before it's even shown to the prouction company they're trying to sell it to, made by people other than the owners, with good production values and familiar faces. It's kind of cool that the guys in charge obviously know about Mortal Kombat and love it enough to make this. It could be a cheesy but fun movie and I hope it gets made but with different character names and a different title. Because, as some of you have already said, this just isn't Mortal Kombat.

And I say this at the risk of sounding like an ignorant if someone comes up later and says that MK was originally an underground comic wich was noir and gritty, and it was later that Boon and Tobias sold out and agreed to make a more mainstream appealing videogame with fireballs, portals, gods and color coded ninjas, and what the hell do I know, I'm not really a fan, go back to playing with your kiddie games etc. :P

What WB should take from this short:
- Actors
- Interest and knowledge of MK
- Fight stunts
- Actual martial artists in the roles
- Michael Jai White (but tone down the acting, please)
- Jeri Ryan (but maybe not as Sonya)
- The way everything is hold together, making you want to see what happens next.

What not to take:
- Everything else.

Also I hope this tone is not used for a future Thundercats movie either. Someone should tell the Warner people that the Thundercats come from Thundera and Jaga is actually Obi Wan in disguise and to drop that would be a very bad thing.

(I'll read that interview now.)

Oy. You wish more people were close minded and scared of change. That's wonderful. Gotta love that kind of progressive thinking.

OK, let's not get personal. Some people like change, some not. Let's leave it like that.

Well the new MK trailer is definitely not a realistic take. I have to admit that the trailer wasn't very impressive but it was definitely nice to see that it WAS MK and not this ****** take on it.

I have a feeling they leaked the video to get WB to see the approval. And sadly it might have worked, I really hope it doesn't though, his vision is terrible


Matt Mullins is an actual martial artist, in fact his "movie scenes" are from Kamen Rider Dragon Knight and promos he did for the show.


I'm pretty open minded to change actually and always give a chance and see the positive things on different takes of franchises that I like. Very rarely do I not like the changes because it is taking away an integral part of the franchise. Only other example I can think off the top of my head is the Turok reboot.

Uh....What?

What the **** does Thundercats have to do with a MK pitch?

Animalities, I guess?