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After flirting with the idea for a while, Warner Bros. and subsidiary New Line have decided that yes, they really would like to pump some cash into a new Mortal Kombat movie, thanks very much. Further details follow.
The new flick, which will be the third live-action movie to bear the MK moniker following semi-successful outings in 1995 and 1997, is going to take its cue from the recent internet series, Mortal Kombat: Legacy, which itself was a spin-off from the unsanctioned short, Rebirth. Both Rebirth and the Legacy serial were directed by Kevin Tancharoen (scarily youthful former Britney choreographer, helmer of the Fame remake and the Glee flopumentary), and the former was penned by Oren Uziel, who is being tasked with scripting the new film.
In February of last year it was reported that Threshold Entertainment was suing Warners over the right to make a new MK movie, with the former reportedly claiming it was still bound to the franchise via a deal it signed with Midway, the video games firm that originally launched Mortal Kombat back in 1992 (and which was subsequently bought up by Warners for an estimated $33m in May 2009). However this lawsuit has presumably either been settled or is considered small enough a potential hurdle by Warners that it feels confident to proceed with its plans for a fresh feature.
Black Dynamite himself, Michael Jai White, starred in Rebirth and Legacy as Jax, the flat-top who made his debut in the second Mortal Kombat arcade game, and it seems likely that he will reprise his role in Tancharoen’s movie. Whether he will be joined by any of his web series co-stars (Jeri Ryan as Sonja Blade, Matt Mullins as Johnny Cage, Ian Anthony Dale as Scorpion) remains to be seen.
Here’s the Rebirth short, made for a reputed $7,500, which first got the Mortal Kombat movie ball rolling again.
Source: Deadline New York
F*CK YES!!!! Very happy bout this!
And its Sonya Blade, not Sonja Blade. Sheesh.
Sorry! And I used to have a copy of the first game when I was a kid too, although it was the rubbishly ‘de-gored’ Nintendo version.
Lol, yeh, I was playing that at my mates only a month or two ago. I reminded him that it only had sweat coming off the fighters and he didn’t believe me.
I’m a huge Mortal Kombat fan!!! Seriously excited or another MK movie. It can’t possibly be any worse than annihilation. Man they f**ked that up.
It seems that it may be a lot darker, and alot more violent then the others were.
Atleast that’s what I can figure from watching that short.
I do think it’s good to know that Micheal Jai White is going to be in a movie, because last time I saw him he was playing the role of SPAWN in “SPAWN the Movie”.
Also if they do have a new Mortal Kombat Movie who would they get to play the other characters?
You have to check out Michael Jai White in Black Dynamite. He’s simply amazing in that movie.
He had a pretty big part in The Dark Knight too.
cant wait
he is also in a movie called blood and bone that is pretty good
should not have turned it down at first(warner bros.) but very excited to about the new good enough Micheal Jay White is gon to reprise his role as Jax wud be interesting if the plot is the same as that of rebirth but whatever it will be cant wait
Glad someone else is going to stomp all over the canon. Crap.
I would love to see another Mortal Kombat movie, but on one condition…. NO CHILDISH STUFF!!! Mortal Kombat was never meant for the faint of heart. If they do this movie they have to make it bloody, brutal and down right nasty. Sonya has to be sexy and must be a bad ass who TRULY knows Martial Arts and there must be Fatalities!!! I also would love to see this go in the direction that Annialation wanted to go except not suck. Meaning, instead of a re-imagination of the world of MK why not do a graffic version of the comics and games bring it to the screen? I would love to see that.
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