A "Mortal Kombat" Movie Remake, Seriously?

Submitted by mark on Friday, Feb 27th 2009

Alright, now I've seriously seen it all. I know that you can't derive much substance from a virtually blank IMDB page, but if the internets are to be believed, there's apparently work being done on a remake of the 1995 movie adaptation of "Mortal Kombat," which was seriously my favorite movie as a 9 year old superdork. Although I would love nothing more than to watch another awesomely terrible MK movie, you have to admit that the concept of a remake of a movie based on a video game is about as creatively bankrupt Hollywood can get. That is unless someone is planning to do a remake of a movie based on a video game that's based on a book, which I'm sure will come to pass someday very, very soon.

Until I hear more news about this (for me to poop on!), I'm gonna go ahead and put "Mortal Kombat (1995)" in my Netflix queue and relive awesome memories of my childhood. For those of you who haven't seen it, this trailer is all you need to convince you that its absolutely neccesary viewing:

Now, if only I could recover my awesome two-toned Mortal Kombat button up t-shirt that I had. A boy can dream, can't he?

Comments

Eh it's just another version

Submitted by Drunken Zombie on Fri, 02/27/2009 - 20:41.

Eh it's just another version of the story. Ala Street Fighter. I mean the Van Dam version was horrendeous and this new one looks just as bad. So why not redo their biggest competition too in fighting games.
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In all honesty I'm not that

Submitted by mark on Fri, 02/27/2009 - 20:50.

In all honesty I'm not that miffed, and I love me some Mortal Kombat, but this is all getting to be a little ridiculous haha

MK3?

Submitted by M. Drew on Fri, 02/27/2009 - 21:12.

Unless I'm mistaken (it wouldn't be the first time,) weren't the Mortal Kombat movies pitched as a trilogy? But the sequel was so terrible the third one was canned? Maybe this is just fufilling that destiny.

I'm tepid to the first MK movie, though the fight with Reptile ain't so bad.

Never seen it, but...

Submitted by Eric on Fri, 02/27/2009 - 22:13.

Still never seen this.

I love the Streetfighter movie, mainly because I was young when I saw it and therefore would have loved anything.

It occurred to me though that the crux with these movies is always special moves. They're the main indentifying aspect of each character, but always seem to give filmmakers fits. Streetfighter went a little too realistic with them and as such the characters lost some of their appeal. MK appears to have gone with the "fuck it, let's go all out" route with CGI. You have to admire their moxy. It should be interesting to see how they do this, considering how "realism" seems to be ruling the day in cinema right now.

Realism

Submitted by Prisoner Abel on Fri, 02/27/2009 - 22:18.

Well, MK has always been set in a magical world so it has that advantage. Also, with the Matrix popularizing wire-fu a lot of the non-magic special moves won't seems as ridiculous.

Anyone else remember the MK TV show or was I the only one who stayed up late enough to watch it?

"I like it when they lie still like that."

You lose.

Submitted by John Shelton on Sat, 02/28/2009 - 02:26.

I'd love to see a hard R spine-rippin', turkey kickin', concerned-parent-heart-attack-givin' Mortal Kombat movie. An action-horror hybrid with all the blood and fatalities of the games and no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Let somebody like Takeshi Katano direct and just rip off the plot of Enter the Dragon or Bloodsport and add in magic and buckets of gore. Of course, since Hollywood is completely incapable of taking anything from our childhoods and making something cool out of it we're almost certainly going to get a PG-13 movie directed by a first-timer from the music video world and a Nickleback song on the soundtrack. Sigh.