New Mortal Kombat movie!

On June 09 2010 05:06 Ideas wrote:
it's most likely not a movie, but a trailer for a new MK game.

On June 09 2010 05:17 arb wrote:
PLEASE DONT RUIN MORTAL KOMBAT WITH A BAD MOVIE

love - arb

On June 09 2010 05:17 arb wrote:
PLEASE DONT RUIN MORTAL KOMBAT WITH A BAD MOVIE

love - arb

On June 09 2010 05:10 Ace wrote:


how do you figure? With actors of that caliber that would be a pretty expensive trailer for a GAME don't you think? Especially with 0 game footage shown.

On June 09 2010 05:19 travis wrote:



you might be a little late for that

On June 09 2010 05:06 0xDEADBEEF wrote:
My inner grown-up tells me "rofl, so silly"
My inner child tells me "fuck yeah!"
When it comes to Mortal Kombat, my inner child has the say.

On June 09 2010 05:17 arb wrote:
PLEASE DONT RUIN MORTAL KOMBAT WITH A BAD MOVIE

love - arb

watched first part of the trailer : this looks ok and terrible at the same time

On June 09 2010 05:32 Zona wrote:
Strange time for a movie - the game brand isn't particularly strong now.

Or maybe it's another one of those make-a-movie-convoluted-tax-shelter projects...

On June 09 2010 05:32 SwEEt[TearS] wrote:
wtf, did anyone else spam pause @ 7:12 to get a look @ SZ's face?
so eerieeeeeeeeeee

also, isn't the music @ the beginning of the trailer the same as the one in the first RE movie when they enter the Umbrella Corp. hive?

On June 09 2010 05:32 SwEEt[TearS] wrote:
wtf, did anyone else spam pause @ 7:12 to get a look @ SZ's face?
so eerieeeeeeeeeee

also, isn't the music @ the beginning of the trailer the same as the one in the first RE movie when they enter the Umbrella Corp. hive?

On June 09 2010 05:38 Crazyeyes wrote:
As someone mentioned previously, though, this is MORTAL FREAKIN KOMBAT. Although the 'Gritty Reboot' has worked well with some movies, I don't know if this is the right way to go with MK. This looks pretty awesome - don't get me wrong - but there should still be some sort of superpowers 'n shit.

On June 09 2010 05:38 Crazyeyes wrote:



Now noone has to go back and check for themselves ;P

The three 'ninjas' - Reptile/Scorpion/Sub Zero don't look ninja-ee at all. :x

As someone mentioned previously, though, this is MORTAL FREAKIN KOMBAT. Although the 'Gritty Reboot' has worked well with some movies, I don't know if this is the right way to go with MK. This looks pretty awesome - don't get me wrong - but there should still be some sort of superpowers 'n shit.
It shows a clip of someone getting assasinated by Scorpion. His 'GET OVER HERE' thingy wasn't a giant snake-monster-coming-from-his-hand, it was some sort of metal-hook-blade.

@arb
are you actualy saying the origional MKs were good?

On June 09 2010 05:43 anch wrote:
so Scorpion turned to a guy good guy, or was a good guy?

On June 09 2010 05:45 Jayme wrote:


MK has always been gritty and that's the one thing I didn't like about the movies in that they lacked this.

The first MK movie was kinda gritty but it was freaking pg 13. What the hell were they thinking making MK a pg 13 movie? The 2nd one was just plain bad. This one has me all excited though and it's been awhile since I cared about any movie at all...assuming it's even a movie

On June 09 2010 05:49 Crazyeyes wrote:

I dunno, maybe I just don't know what 'girtty' means. :D

This seems to be a lot more dark and realistic (I mean so far everything you seen in the trailer was completely plausible) whereas the origional movies arn't at all.
Sorta like new Batman vs old Batman movies. The older ones seemed more directed at kids, whereas a kid might not appreciate the newer ones as much as someone older.

On June 09 2010 05:38 Crazyeyes wrote:

+ Show Spoiler +

Now noone has to go back and check for themselves ;P

The three 'ninjas' - Reptile/Scorpion/Sub Zero don't look ninja-ee at all. :x

As someone mentioned previously, though, this is MORTAL FREAKIN KOMBAT. Although the 'Gritty Reboot' has worked well with some movies, I don't know if this is the right way to go with MK. This looks pretty awesome - don't get me wrong - but there should still be some sort of superpowers 'n shit.
It shows a clip of someone getting assasinated by Scorpion. His 'GET OVER HERE' thingy wasn't a giant snake-monster-coming-from-his-hand, it was some sort of metal-hook-blade.

@arb
are you actualy saying the origional MKs were good?

On June 09 2010 05:19 FragKrag wrote:
I don't see much promise in Mortal Kombat with such a lackluster background for most of the characters.

On June 09 2010 05:52 J-Dragon wrote:
No way this will top the original MK. The first one had genuinely good action scenes and was true to the games. You just had to get past the lame, almost Power Ranger-like writing.

On June 09 2010 05:54 GunSlinger wrote:
So the plot is as follows:
Guy who has a skin disease eats people's heads. Failed surgeon goes crazy because he can't handle failure. How does he cope? He kills people with blades he installed in his arms. The police force finds all this out somehow... So they hire an assassin that has been voluntarily locked away in their prison system to kill them both in a tournament.

I find it hard to believe they can get pictures of Sub Zero, Reptile, Baraka, etc. Yet they can't track them down? Are you fucking serious? Scorpion (who is the greatest assassin ever apparently) doesn't know Sub Zero is alive and yet the police do? Oh yeah, and everybody is working for the same big bad guy, who's organization was infiltrated by a movie actor... who was killed... by the doctor who installed blades in his arms.

So... that is actually a worse plot than the first one... didn't think that was possible. The more I think about this the more it becomes obvious that a 15 year old must have wrote this crap. We finally have the technology to make a real Mortal Kombat movie and this is what they give us.
I really hope this is a trailer for the game because this looks like utter shit.

On June 09 2010 05:59 JohnUCrazy wrote:


Yes, but given the history after the first movie, this is a welcomed change.

On June 09 2010 06:02 Djin)ftw( wrote:


dude wtf is wrong with you? what do you expect, some high level script which tells the story on 4 different levels and has a sixth sense twist at the end? Oo
introduce the characters, done. make it plausible that the good guy wants to kill the bad guys, done.

that's fucking it. the rest is (hopefully) nice action including sick martial arts, nice special effects, fatalities, lots of blood and an awesome soundtrack (although it wont reach Mortal Kombat in that aspect I suppose)

On June 09 2010 05:06 Ideas wrote:
it's most likely not a movie, but a trailer for a new MK game.

On June 09 2010 06:02 bokchoi wrote:
At first I wasn't really feeling it. I didn't really like the whole series reboot making barraka and reptile into demented serial killers with diseases doesn't quite sit well with me. Especially with Reptile because he was a fucking a reptilian ninja man ..

With that being said, it definitely has potential and merit. I'm not really feeling the series reboot by creating new backstories/storylines, but if they make a game to go along with it to completely reboot the series and not just for a movie I can go along with it. I'm definitely interested in seeing how this turns out.

On June 09 2010 06:04 GunSlinger wrote:


People like you are the reason good movies aren't made anymore.

On June 09 2010 06:00 FREEloss_ca wrote:
There's nothing on imdb about this movie. This must be a trailer for a game.

All I could find was this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1386939/

Which states there's a Mortal Kombat video game coming out in Dec 2010, made by Warner Bros. Studios' game developer company.

On June 09 2010 05:54 SwEEt[TearS] wrote:


ehhhhh? I ain't the biggest MK fan so I'm wondering like, when was it ever a snake? cause from as far back as I can remember (MK on Genesis awww yeah blood) it's always been a kunai on a rope (unless im going too far back? lol)

On June 09 2010 05:54 SwEEt[TearS] wrote:


ehhhhh? I ain't the biggest MK fan so I'm wondering like, when was it ever a snake? cause from as far back as I can remember (MK on Genesis awww yeah blood) it's always been a kunai on a rope (unless im going too far back? lol)

On June 09 2010 06:14 Crazyeyes wrote:

Oh, are you sure? Maybe it wasn't a snake.
Either way, though, I'm pretty sure he had some sort of control over it. More importantly, and this I'm sure of: IT CAME OUT OF HIS PALM.
Also, according to the storyline, Scorpion is a ghost or a spectre or some shiet. He can RIP OFF HIS FACE and underneath is a FLAMING SKULL and he has FIRE BREATH.
It's just not MK without that kind of shit :x

On June 09 2010 05:17 arb wrote:
PLEASE DONT RUIN MORTAL KOMBAT WITH A BAD MOVIE

love - arb

watched first part of the trailer : this looks ok and terrible at the same time

Oh, are you sure? Maybe it wasn't a snake.
Either way, though, I'm pretty sure he had some sort of control over it. More importantly, and this I'm sure of: IT CAME OUT OF HIS PALM.
Also, according to the storyline, Scorpion is a ghost or a spectre or some shiet. He can RIP OFF HIS FACE and underneath is a FLAMING SKULL and he has FIRE BREATH.
It's just not MK without that kind of shit :x

On June 09 2010 06:04 GunSlinger wrote:


People like you are the reason good movies aren't made anymore.

On June 09 2010 05:38 Crazyeyes wrote:



Now noone has to go back and check for themselves ;P

Hell, IGN even gave the actor who plays "Jacks" in the vid, The Dark Knight's Michael Jai White, a call and his reps told us that White believed the shoot was a marketing component for the game.

On June 09 2010 06:23 J-Dragon wrote:


Just found this on a comment from reddit. Apparently, he works for Blitz Games so I wouldn't be surprised if this is all for a new game. Maybe they wanna try something like the cutscenes in C&C3

On June 09 2010 06:31 Ace wrote:



noooo

On June 09 2010 05:19 silencefc wrote:


So you're saying the first two Mortal Kombat movies were good?

On June 09 2010 07:20 BuGzlToOnl wrote:


Lol, there are two Mortal Kombat movies? :p

On June 09 2010 07:14 CharlieMurphy wrote:
I'm glad that the cinematography isn't the shaky flying all over the place camera like most shitty movies these days (Transporter, Batman, Bourne, etc) but the choreography looks really shitty. I can't win

On June 09 2010 08:04 Crazyeyes wrote:

Jesus, you're hard to please. The (new) Batman and Bourne serieses were amazing.
and Transporter 2 was good, too. O_o

On June 09 2010 05:19 silencefc wrote:


So you're saying the first two Mortal Kombat movies were good?

On June 09 2010 06:17 Wr3k wrote:


Not sure where you have been, but although the first movie was good in my books (even with the bad acting and super hokey writing), the 2nd one was fucking terrible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULdxUiD-x_M

On June 09 2010 09:09 arb wrote:

the first one was good, the 2nd so bad i dont ackowledge it as a movie.

I see where you may have beenconfused though

On June 09 2010 09:24 Warrior Madness wrote:



I forgot how hot Sonya was. :D

On June 09 2010 08:04 Crazyeyes wrote:

Jesus, you're hard to please. The (new) Batman and Bourne serieses were amazing.
and Transporter 2 was good, too. O_o

On October 22 2006 21:37 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
They hold a tourney in the mortal realm...
Only one man can be the victor...
The fate of the world will be decided by...

MORTAL KOMBAT!!!

On June 09 2010 10:09 MidKnight wrote:
"Realistic" approach sort of sucks..
Why is it so hard for the movie makers of our time just to recreate the series in its own universe..

Sub-Zero isn't Sub-Zero if he can't freeze people to death with his superpowers and scorpion isn't scorpion if he can't shoot a spear out of his hand and yell "GET OVER HERE!".

Oh well, at least this probably won't be as cheesy as the old MK movies

On June 09 2010 10:14 disciple wrote:
I think it will be confusing to have Scorpion as the good guy. Actually because of poor development, most of characters are completely neutral in some way- there is no star warsish "the bad guys are ugly and with red swords" thing about MK. Sure the good guys were easy to spot, but as far as the two main ninjas goes, I always thought Sub-Zero is the good and Scorpion is the bad guy

On June 09 2010 10:27 disciple wrote:
They can actually put Machete as the guy with the sombrero (or the throwing hat, whatever his name was), it will be quite realistic

On June 09 2010 10:27 disciple wrote:
They can actually put Machete as the guy with the sombrero (or the throwing hat, whatever his name was), it will be quite realistic

On June 09 2010 05:33 bonifaceviii wrote:

Directed by Uwe Boll? That's a possibility.

On June 09 2010 05:54 GunSlinger wrote:
a bunch of crap about why the plot for this movie sucks

On June 09 2010 11:03 Mellotron wrote:
Seems like everyone really likes this. For me personally all i can see are modern movie cliches. Not 1 character actually looks cool to me. Terrible casting job. All these people did is take an established franchise and remake it in the style of every "gritty" movie thats come out since like 2005. I dont know how people can not be bored of that same blue-ish or sepia filter they put on every single movie that they want to seem "dark" or "disturbed".

Basically its a brilliant ploy to put asses in seats for this era of entertainment by upping the gore. And it will work. For me personally the fights look lame as hell. There is nothing in that trailer that looks anywhere near fresh to my eyes.

When i look at this it seems like such an obvious attempt to bring people to the theatre who arent video gamers by making it an almost "Seven"-esque presentation. But for me, thats such a tired old way to present something. Basically movie goers just want to see people fuck or die. The "Seven" formula works to legitimize what is basically an excuse to show gore by presenting it as "case studies" or crimes. Man, hollywood script writing is the gravy train of all gravy trains. The only thing stopping anyone from making a movie is the funding and manpower. You need literally only average creative skill to come up with something that will sell to the public these days. Its one liner after one liner and then throw a bunch of ominous filters over the footage to make it look like the mood that you should have been able to create from step 1 by just choosing the correct locations, cast, and dialogue.

I know im in the minority with this opinion, but movies have become the horse and buggy of entertainment for me. I need more than just one liners, "grittier" remakes, and stuff that panders to either my ego or my libido. I cant sit through the puppet show anymore, i am too distracted by the puppeteer.

On June 09 2010 09:40 MetalMarine wrote:


You're not talking about The Dark Knight.. are you?

On June 09 2010 10:58 AmstAff wrote:
this looks way better than the other 2 MK movies. seriously it looks like this trailer was more expensive than both old movies together.
so sub zero is dead? cant believe that, he was my all time favorite =(

On June 09 2010 06:18 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Is Crispin Freeman the voice over for Scorpion or is it James Caviezel?

On June 09 2010 12:43 MamiyaOtaru wrote:
if all the characters have different backstories, is it really the MK characters? Why bother using their names then? Oh yeah, gamers everywhere will jizz because of it

On June 09 2010 12:43 MamiyaOtaru wrote:
if all the characters have different backstories, is it really the MK characters? Why bother using their names then? Oh yeah, gamers everywhere will jizz because of it

On June 09 2010 04:48 sung_moon wrote:
lol my friend linked this to me earlier
looks like more of a "saw/hostel" type route they taking which makes sense
wanta see lui kang thou

edit: i think barak is played by the brazilian capoeira fighter in "The Protector". maybe....
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On June 10 2010 00:39 DorF wrote:
Definately gonna watch , would love the movie even more if it wasn't for the sake that johnny cage died ...He's the fucking main charachter , you don't get new main charachters!!!!
It's like if they would've made a new indiana jones movie but it wasn't starring harrison for as indiana jones , it's about some other dude named blake ...and he's blind and kinda gay

Actress Jeri Ryan of Star Trek: Voyage fame appears as Sonya Blade in a Mortal Kombat trailer dubbed "Mortal Kombat: Rebirth" that popped up online. Is it a game trailer? A movie trailer? Tell us, Jeri, tell us!

"Okay, so... Mortal Kombat," she tweets. "It's not a game trailer. Actually was made for the director to sell WB on his vision for a reimagined MK film."

Ryan said she did her role as a favor to a friend. "No idea yet what WB's reaction to it was," she adds. I can tell you what my reaction was: stoked.

While a Mortal Kombat film was directed by Paul W.S. Anderson (of Resident Evil movie fame) in 1995, an updated take on the franchise has been languishing in development hell. However, a lawsuit has been filed by the development partner of the original film as it signed a contract in 2006 to do a sequel.

The Mortal Kombat: Rebirth short was helmed by Kevin Tancharoen. He directed last year's Fame remake.

On June 10 2010 09:06 Rice wrote:
scorpion wasn't a villain, he was an anti-hero

On June 10 2010 03:57 myrmidon2537 wrote:
Mortal Kombat Movies 1 and 2 will always be in my heart for being hilariously funny (same goes for Van damme's street fighter movie)

Kitana: Mother you are alive?!

Sindel: too bad YOU will Die!

Somehow it always cracks me up

On June 10 2010 09:33 Code wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIt0VY7Yg2w

lol this new movie has big shoes to fill!

On June 10 2010 09:56 Shizuru~ wrote:


ROFL!

should i have considered myself lucky to not have seen this movie? maybe i should watch it for a good laugh lol...


not quite sure if a new movie is in production now, but i doubt that this is a promotional footage for a mortal kombat games, unless they wanna change all their stories to fit the trailers for the game, which is stupid...

well if they made a new MK movie out of this, i'm gonna go watch it for sure, but they better put the original or bad ass remixed Mortal Kombat soundtrack in it!

On June 10 2010 01:19 Curu wrote:



Wait, you'd rather have Johnny Cage as a main character than Scorpion?

Not to uhh judge you or anything, but ARE YOU GAY?

On June 10 2010 09:33 Code wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIt0VY7Yg2w

lol this new movie has big shoes to fill!

On June 09 2010 10:13 JohnUCrazy wrote:
Hmmm....sounds convincing....can I get a HELLLLLZZZ YEAH!

http://twitchfilm.net/news/2010/06/michael-jai-white-does-mortal-kombat.php

On June 10 2010 09:18 Smorrie wrote:
Too bad they weren't able to write a different script.. Why stick to the tournament thing each movie over and over again -_- I know it's MK but come on, you make the movie insta-bad by doing that and waste any chance on making a surprisingly good movie that will actually attract a bigger audience :o Eventho the trailer looks very promising and fun for anyone who ever played MK and just wants to see some action and some pretty SFX I'll def go and see this haha.

On June 10 2010 11:22 Conquest101 wrote:
I rarely ever go to a theater, but I will go fucking opening night for MK.

Morrrrtalllll Kombat. Fuck yeah.

Trailer is pretty cool. There really was only the 2 ways to go with MK. Cheesy non-stop action like the first one. (2nd was an abomination). Or super gritty like this one. Personally, I like this new version better. Let's hope it's done well (or at all).

Edit: Poll.

On June 10 2010 11:53 lepape wrote:


As some people already mentionned, they're NOT making a movie.

The trailer was just a pitch for some guys at Warner Brothers.

On June 10 2010 13:01 Toran7 wrote:
Believe it or not, but my friends cousin (Ian Anthony Dale) plays scorpion :O

On June 10 2010 13:01 Toran7 wrote:
Believe it or not, but my friends cousin (Ian Anthony Dale) plays scorpion :O

On June 10 2010 13:55 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:


Pics. Vid. Proof. Now.

Update: Actress Jeri Ryan, the actress portraying Sonya Blade in the video, has confirmed via Twitter that this is a short film created by a director to sell Warner Bros. on his Mortal Kombat pitch. "It's not a game trailer. Actually was made for the director to sell WB on his vision for a reimagined MK film," Ryan says on her Twitter page, adding " I did it as a favor to a friend. No idea yet what WB's reaction to it was." Thanks to Zimnick for pointing us towards Jeri's updates!

On June 10 2010 19:32 -Sky- wrote:
Well, TO ME MK for sure is not JUST fighting. Otherwise every fighting movie will be my favourite:D Its more about the story and the atmosphere, u know other dimension ( the outworld ) trying to overcome ours, trying to prevent the end of it all and stuff interfering with gods and all. While this looks more like an ordinary action film to me. It dosent have that atmosphere It might turn to be realy good, but from what ive seen on the video for now, i dont like it Ofcourse thats my view, maybe most of the people wont see it my way

On June 12 2010 13:16 KOFgokuon wrote:
I think this trailer would have been 3000x more awesome if they had Erik King (Doakes from Dexter) playing Jax

On June 14 2010 03:35 LordofToast wrote:
The trailer reminds me of the SMB movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtMZKYnLg5c

trying to be "edgy" but ends up missing the point completely.

On June 14 2010 04:03 Jayme wrote:


I'm not sure I follow what you're trying to say. I apparently don't see what you see.

On June 14 2010 03:35 LordofToast wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
trying to be "edgy" but ends up missing the point completely.