Mortal Kombat Rebirth

This trailer is just awesome.

For a long time now the Mortal Kombat franchise has been a bit of a joke, with cheesy film after cheesy film, and bad game after bad game. It’s good to see that Mortal Kombat’s luck may be turning around.

The above video was making the rounds yesterday, with everyone wondering just what this trailer was for. Was it a game trailer or a film trailer? Well according to IGN, it’s actually a film trailer. Jeri Ryan via Twitter confirmed that this video was in fact a trailer for a Mortal Kombat film, which was made to sell WB on the director’s vision for a re-imagining of the Mortal Kombat franchise.

What amazes me is that this short was filmed for about $7,500 since most of the work was done for free. I guess it just shows you that you don’t need a lot of money to make a film these days. In any case, I wish the director, Kevin Tancharoen, luck on selling his vision to WB. Hopefully we will be seeing something soon.

Mortal Kombat Remake Coming

Bloody Disgusting is reporting that Warner Bros. is in talks to remake Mortal Kombat.

Mortal Kombat for the uninitiated was a popular arcade fighting game that first debuted in 1992.  In 1995, Mortal Kombat was turned into a film and released to theatres by New Line Cinema.

Mortal Kombat was a pretty good film at the time, although a bit cheesy and featured a very iconic techno music soundtrack.  Its just to bad that the sequels didn’t live up to the first film.

But now, 15 years after the release of the first Mortal Kombat film (13 years after Mortal Kombat:Annihilation),  they have decided to remake this film.  Is it too soon for a remake?  The majority of the film going audience has seen Mortal Kombat in some form and may still have it fresh in their mind, but I kind of think this is a good move on the part of Warner Bros..

I think most people have a very short memory of the past and if you want to test that, just ask them when the major blackout happened that took out most of North America.  I can guarantee they can’t remember the date or the year, some may not have even remembered that a black out occurred until you ask them about it.  But in any case, given the length of time I don’t think most people will be looking on Mortal Kombat as a sequel.  Nor will people be comparing the two films,  especially if the marketing is done right for the Mortal Kombat remake.

But, the one hurdle that Warner Bros. will need to get over is that most videogame movies suck.  Especially fighting game movies.  With Street Fighter: Legend of Chun Li in the minds of the unfortunate people that say that film, it may cause some trouble for Mortal Kombat film to be taken seriously.  Not that many people saw the last Street Fighter film.

In any case, I wish Warner Bros. the best on Mortal Kombat.  Hopefully Warner Bros. will be able to do the impossible and make a great videogame movie.

DC vs Mortal Kombat

 

Here is the latest trailer from DC vs Mortal Kombat coming out of DC.  Upon watching it I'm kind of left with one thought.  Has Mortal Kombat hit rock bottom?  When Mortal Kombat was first released it was a very popular video game.  I spent hours playing it in the Arcade and on the console.  It was a very fun and innovative video game for its time.  But, as the series went on it just became more and more crappy.  Not that it was terrible, but it wasn't what it use to be.  The series started to be more about gore and less about innovation, unlike the Street Fighter series that made a number of changes over the years.

So now as Mortal Kombat has been teamed up with DC for this new video game, you have to wonder if the developers are beginning to acknowledge that the franchise needs some spicing up.  Whether it will be as refreshing an experience as playing Marvel vs Capcom, we  will have to wait and see. I hope that it can be, I think they should shelf the series for a few years until they can bring in that level of innovation needed to save the series.  Then again, maybe its to late.

Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe

 

I never thought I would see this day come.