The only good Mortal Kombat movie was the original one. The one which had the now-iconic Mortal Kombat techno song. The rest were bad. So too, was the TV series—bad. The only good reason to watch them was for the ludicrously sexy outfits, which was totally rad for any teenage boy whose parents didn’t have a cable subscription that included Cinemax. Internet porn just wasn’t a thing back then.
So anyway, Mortal Kombat kinda-sorta redeemed itself in movie form when a bunch of fans put together a web series for Machinima called Mortal Kombat Legacy. Fortunately, it looks like the whole effort paid off and now they’re putting together a full feature film with a budget of $40 million at Warner Bros.
Speaking to TotalFilm, Warner exec Lance Sloan confirmed that the studio is developing the film and that the project’s director, Kevin Tancharoen (who previously helmed the Machinima web series), is in charge of making the whole thing. Actually, we even reported on it last night.
“We're preparing right now for the film with Kevin Tancharoen, [who] directed the digital series for us," said Sloan. "He's at the helm of the forty, fifty million dollar film."
It may not have ludicrously sexy outfits for a brand new audience of teenage boys, but it’ll at least be the best adaptation of Mortal Kombat to film.
