Tancharoen will direct an all-new Mortal Kombat movie based on a script from writing partner Oren Uziel. The Hollywood Reporter writes that the new story “will not serve as an extension of the game [or]digital series”. Production is expected to begin next year with a theatrical release planned for 2013, reports the LA Times’ Company Town blog.
Warner Bros’ New Line Cinema division will produce.
The latest video game entry, Mortal Kombat for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, has gone on to sell more than three million units since its launch in April.
New ‘Mortal Kombat’ movie coming via partnership of Warner units [LA TImes]
Shazzo
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 8:52 AMPLEASE be like the original pitch…
Lance
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 9:00 AMAs long as it has sub-zero the greatest character ever in a fighting game I’ll like it. :)
Sar Selack
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 9:01 AMThe webseries was great. But that original trailer needs its own movie.
Richard
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 9:07 AMI can’t believe this actually worked…
Richard
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 9:07 AMI can’t believe this actually worked…
Milbo
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 9:10 AMAwesome. Loved the web series. Can’t believe his guerilla tactic has worked so well. Congrats to him.
TheLastQuestion
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 9:10 AMThings I loved about the web series:
- Ninjas – Sub-Zero and Scorpion were fantastic, if a little silly looking
- Cyber-ninjas – the story of Sektor and Cyrax was arguably the most compelling episode of the whole lot.
Things I didn’t like:
- where the heck was Liu Kang?
- Why did they change Baraka from the awesome concept they had in the original trailer?
- where was Reptile?
I’m stoked that Tancharoen has been given the opportunity to expand his ideas with this universe. The web series showed promise, but I hope with a little more guidance he can create a focussed, compelling story.
AerintheADEQUATE
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 11:12 PMcharacters such as Liu Kang and Kung Lao he was quoted as saying were being saved for a ‘second season’ of the webseries. But since he’s apparently got the go-ahead to do a movie, I can imagine a second season won’t be happening soon, if at all.
As far as the Baraka thing, I think Ed Boon actually said he wanted him to dial the world back a bit to be closer to ‘canon MK’… Not certain about that, but I do remember Boon saying he liked the original trailer Tancharoen did but that he thought it went a little too far away from a ‘true MK’ universe or something… :-P
Mase
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 9:29 AMAs long as he doesn’t change his style again to suit the WB management, I’m fine with it. He’ll, the only episode that even came close to the original pitch trailer was the Raiden episode
THXultra
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 9:54 AMI found the web series a bit average, allthough I reckon with a big budget this director will be able to show what he really wanted to do with the Mortal Kombat world. Yeah, the Raiden episode was great though I wanted to see him go all out and turn the hospital into a crater that Akira himself would be proud of!
SOX
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 10:39 AMCouldn’t possibly top the original MK movie (second was garbage). Top tier B-grade movie.
Chazz
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 11:24 AM“will not serve as an extension of the game”
Then make something else that isn’t Mortal Kombat.
Neil Williams
Monday, October 3, 2011 at 12:08 AMI believe they are stating that the storyline will be separate to the games canon, rather than being directly tied into it. Not unlike how the previous Mortal Kombat films existed in their own canon.
Noobsaibut
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 4:04 PMYESSS!!! finally…. but seriously the original trailer he made was awesome and all but Mortal Kombat is Mortal Kombat they shouldn’t change the lore just because its a movie. They should remake number 1
Supreme
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 5:45 PMI can’t believe this actually worked…
Reoh
Saturday, October 1, 2011 at 6:45 AMThis is either going to be really good (batman remake) or utterly crap (99% of game movies).