the gritty pseudo urban style would make it a more interesting world than the overly fantastic mortal kombat universe.

In a word?  Ew.

What the hell have they done with my childhood?  There's nothing Mortal Kombat about this.  It looks entertaining, a brilliant action movie, and if the Cage / Baraka fight sets the standard for the martial arts, bring it the hell on, but this isn't Mortal Kombat.  Reptile is a Zaterran, not a psycho with harlequin's.  Baraka is a Tarkatan, not a plastic surgeon with Origins Deadpool blades.  About the only thing they got right was a dead Cage.  I was happy with my campy martial arts emperor from another dimension story, why'd they replace it with this shock-value real world crap?  I bloody well hope the game isn't like this...

Okay, so... Mortal Kombat. It's not a game trailer.

cast cast cast

Mileena was brought to life by Shang Tsung using Tarkatan race's physiology to be a clone of Edenian Princess Kitana for the evil Emperor Shao Kahn. Mileena looks just like Kitana when her mask is on (especially since Kitana often also wears a mask), but when it is off, her true, flawed visage is exposed. She despises Kitana, and feels that it is her own right to rule Edenia as princess in her place. Her fondest wish is to kill her "sister", and claim her existence for her own. Something of an opportunist, Mileena will make use of any chance to seize power that comes within her grasp.

I think this is a pumped up promo for a new MK game

Called it lol

I think it is Pretty Obvious who the Director is. I mean, name Ryan's last film that happened to be in the horror genre.

Can you say, Dracula 2000

Now like I said, because I am such a fan of the Mortal Kombat series, I know there’s a lot of concern about the mysticism and the special powers and all that kind of stuff.  Well, like I said, this is really designed — the short so far is really designed like a prologue to the movie. Now, in a movie version, I am going to have that mysticism there, but it has to be done in a very tasteful way.  I wouldn’t like it too campy or too cheesy.  I know this is a weird analogy, but it’s the best one I can think of right now.  It’s kind of like when in Harry Potter, there’s two universes that coexist with each other.  There’s the real world, and then you get on the train and then you go to Hogwart’s, and that’s where all the magic is.  It was actually kind of similar in the first Mortal Kombat, too.

...And I think Jax is such a real character.  I would love to see how he got his metal arms.  I thought that was great.  Sonya’s also such a classic character.  Everyone knows Sonya.  I did want to utilize the most iconic characters and not get too carried away with the over the top nature that you can get away with in video games, but not necessarily in cinema.  So I probably wouldn’t have people like Cyrax.  I would have people like Kabal.  But not Cyrax. Stryker is another interesting character.  I would definitely like to explore Kitana and Kung Lao.

Shamrock said, June 10, 2010, 02:04:54 pm

Looks like I was wrong about the director. I'm less happy. I mean, he just compared mortal Kombat to Harry Potter.

Good point

And if he doesn't want to toss the supernatural elements of MK, then WTF is up with Baraka and Reptile?

It just smells of sell-out Hollywood douchebaggery

I think the web analogy made more sense.... but it was to help the audience relate more with peter instead of him being super smart (which kinda took away from his character.....) 

I am glad its not going to lose the magic stuff, and keeping it in "not overly cheesy" way is good, I really liked the first MK Movie myself, I hated the second one, but the first I didnt think was bad. one of the better Video game based movies