Kevin Tancharoen, director of Mortal Kombat: Rebirth & Mortal Kombat: Legacy, has been approached to direct a Mortal Kombat movie.
New Line Cinema, a subsidiary of Warner Bros, will be collaborating with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment to bring Kevin Tancharoen’s Mortal Kombat vision to the big screen. Oren Uziel, who helped write both Mortal Kombat: Rebirth and Mortal Kombat Legacy, is also lined up to write the movie.
Toby Emmerich, New Line Cinema’s President said:
“The new game and the online shorts prompted us to consider a reboot of a brand we hadn’t been actively thinking about.”
Since this has just been announced, no actors have been named to star but since the likes of Michael Jai White and Jeri Ryan have already appeared in the web series, it would be great to get them in the movie.
If you have not seen the Rebirth Trailer, I’ll link it below but be warned: some parts are a bit graphic.
Also, the first episode of Mortal Kombat Legacy (another graphic warning):
http://youtu.be/6s6UiEuCYXA
Tuffcub
Meh, first MK movie was fab :)
scavenga
+1!
Roynaldo
the best one out of them all no doubt (including that series that was going)
Forrest_01
I really liked the first Mortal Kombat movie – It’s good in a really cheesy way. The second one was god-awful though so, i am cautiously optimistic.
Hopefully it will turn out well.
SpikeyMikey23
Awesome news. I really enjoyed Legacy and rebirth was awesome. Glad its not Paul W.S Anderson making it……although I love the first mortal kombat film
DrNate86
“The new game and the online shorts prompted us to consider a reboot of a brand we hadn’t been actively thinking about.”
TRANSLATION:
“Mortal Kombat is back? And kids seem to be buying it again? Milk it for all it’s worth. Plushies, another movie, Fatality! emergency contraception. I am not missing another fad like that damn Glee business.”
OriginalJonty (Aran Suddi)
I want a Scorpion Plushie.
Tuffcub
I want a real life Kano from MK1 movie. Shame he’s dead :(
SpikeyMikey23
kitana, mileena, jade, scarlett, sindel and sonya blow up dolls! Sheeva for the sados…..
Forrest_01
Mileena??? I’d hate to think what they would make the mouth out of!!
SpikeyMikey23
lol perhaps i should have placed mileena with sheeva under the Sado-masachist heading lol
The Lone Steven
It will be crap. what? 99.98% of the time, video game movies are crap and usually take a dump on the game’s fans.
I didn’t like the realistic modern day take on MK as it’s Mortal Kombat where you have thunder gods, 4 armed thingys, an evil emproper trying to take over outworld, etc.. :)