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Title: new mortal kombat movie?
Post by: samurai black on June 09, 2010, 01:30:23 PM
found this on kotaku.

looks pretty beast. this time i dont mind the fact that they ignore the games :D


http://kotaku.com/5558339/if-this-is-the-next-mortal-kombat-movie-sign-us-up



edit: might actually be a promo for the new game.
Title: Re: new mortal kombat movie?
Post by: [NIUE] BIRRY WONG on June 09, 2010, 01:32:40 PM
Yea saw that on SRK this morning. I dunno. As retarded as it is, I kind of like the terrible Mortal Kombat lore.
Title: Re: new mortal kombat movie?
Post by: samurai black on June 10, 2010, 11:16:07 AM
aww poo, this was just a director's pitch for a re-imagined mk movie.
Title: Re: new mortal kombat movie?
Post by: electric on June 10, 2010, 11:21:07 AM
Quote from: samurai black on June 10, 2010, 11:16:07 AM
aww poo, this was just a director's pitch for a re-imagined mk movie.

Really ? You'd think with some actual actors it may be worth watching though - I thought it was mildly entertaining - would watch it drunk as with the boys lol
Title: Re: new mortal kombat movie?
Post by: stereomonkey on June 10, 2010, 11:54:37 AM
If they went the way they had pitched it would have come across as a good movie.  The director had it going the right way though I'm not sure if scorpion would do well as the lead character.
Title: Re: new mortal kombat movie?
Post by: Barnstorm on June 10, 2010, 12:03:40 PM
this looks like it could be really good

scorpion as main character could be really cool
scorpion and subs are like the ryu and ken just more badass

be a nice change to the we must save the world lui kang is our only hope garbage
Title: Re: new mortal kombat movie?
Post by: samurai black on June 10, 2010, 12:22:40 PM
i think its funny they just took the killer croc concept from batman and applied it to reptile :D

i like how they imply scorpion is the lead here, but i thought the second sub zero was a good guy.
Title: Re: new mortal kombat movie?
Post by: xpunch on June 10, 2010, 12:53:35 PM
Baraka owned my mk2 main lol.
(http://www.arcade-history.com/images/custom/mk2/mk2_10.png)

Cage needed more of this..
(http://forummedia.midway.com/icons/MK/MK_JohnnyCage-ShadowKick.gif)
Title: Re: new mortal kombat movie?
Post by: [NIUE] BIRRY WONG on June 10, 2010, 02:17:12 PM
Quote from: samurai black on June 10, 2010, 12:22:40 PM
i think its funny they just took the killer croc concept from batman and applied it to reptile :D

i like how they imply scorpion is the lead here, but i thought the second sub zero was a good guy.

Scorpion is more of an anti-hero. They probably only made him the lead because hes the most interesting character in the MK universe.
Title: Re: new mortal kombat movie?
Post by: redtie on June 10, 2010, 10:01:58 PM
This is awesome.

[/TNAcrowd]
Title: Re: new mortal kombat movie?
Post by: fluxcore on June 11, 2010, 08:20:12 AM
holy shit
holy shit
holy shit
Title: Re: new mortal kombat movie?
Post by: CrazyMobius on June 11, 2010, 01:25:25 PM
Dark and realistic = lame.
Title: Re: new mortal kombat movie?
Post by: [NIUE] B1ackstar Ninja on June 11, 2010, 08:20:04 PM
i reckon this looked awesome , would be a good way for the mk franchise to sorta get reborn .
Title: Re: new mortal kombat movie?
Post by: JoeKage on June 17, 2010, 02:05:37 PM
is this really a hoax cause that was mean  :-\
Title: Re: new mortal kombat movie?
Post by: [NIUE] BIRRY WONG on June 21, 2010, 03:10:51 AM
It wasn't a 'hoax'.

It was a directors pitch for the movie essentially. Pretty sure it didnt get picked up though. Thats what i heard anyway. Thats where the hoax crap is coming from.
Title: Re: new mortal kombat movie?
Post by: originaljulz on June 21, 2010, 05:56:35 PM
Someone on Kotaku said that they thought the movie would be what the Resident Evil movies did to the games. I.e, crappy story etc woven around mentioning a few characters names etc etc.

What do you guys think? I personally think it might be a bit of a revival for the mk series, esp with mk9 set to come out like what, March next year?

And the art direction in this pitch is actually very, very nice.

Also, Scorps is prob the most interesting character, and I fully support him being the lead  8)
Title: Re: new mortal kombat movie?
Post by: samurai black on June 21, 2010, 10:39:17 PM
not like MK story was particularly great anyway.
Title: Re: new mortal kombat movie?
Post by: Barnstorm on June 22, 2010, 11:30:57 AM
i think not following the game story is whats needed

story lines in games work because game play is generally the most important part
in a movie the story line is most important and fighting games are not known for their storyline
Title: Re: new mortal kombat movie?
Post by: fluxcore on June 22, 2010, 12:17:37 PM
Quote from: raiden
Mortal men and women defending your own world
It's not about death, but life

MORTAL KOMBAAAT