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Mortal Kombat Rebirth Trailer
The Watcher:
well, thats what theyre doing. theyre getting rid of of the campy shit that wouldnt work in a movie of this one (read: special powers) and make it about a martial arts contest. along with getting rid of the powers you have to make it more realistic
i'll buy tickets to this movie on opening night if this thing gets made
JohnnyL:
--- Quote from: The Watcher on June 11, 2010, 06:02:42 AM ---well, thats what theyre doing. theyre getting rid of of the campy shit that wouldnt work in a movie of this one (read: special powers) and make it about a martial arts contest. along with getting rid of the powers you have to make it more realistic
i'll buy tickets to this movie on opening night if this thing gets made
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Actually, it sounds as though some of the mysticism may be left in, if this movie actually gets to be made. Here is an excerpt from an interview with the director of the "pitch movie." It's actually a pretty good read:
I had been thinking about this for awhile now. Just in passing, I've always had these conversations about "Mortal Kombat" because everyone was talking about rebooting the movie. I guess that's the popular term everyone uses now. Reboot, reboot, let's just take everything and reboot it. Of course I had my opinions on it, because of the first two movies, and because I was such an avid fan of the game. I was a quarter dispenser, and I don't know how much I spent over at the Sherman Oaks golf course, whatever that place is called now. Right by the Galleria. And I had a lot of opinions on it. I really, really thought that something special could be made there. And it got to a point where we just kept talking about it, and I just had to do it. It took over a two-month span of time. I shot this whole thing in two days on two Red cameras that were donated to me with a group of friends who all believed in the cause. We shot it at Lacey Street Studios on Saturday and Sunday afternoon and we just kind of had fun with it. It all started at the beginning of April and it took two months to do all the post and the editing. I edited it myself and the visual effects were great people donating their time. It turned out to be pretty awesome. I was very, very happy about it. It's one of those passion projects that lived in my head. The technology is so accessible now. There's was no reason why I shouldn't do it, so I did it. I'm very, very happy that people are responding well to it. I know that there's definitely a handful of purists that have their opinions on the mysticism and the mythos of Mortal Kombat. But I do have an answer for that: this is just a prelude to what my movie version would be. And of course, when you're working by yourself, you have a limited resource of budget. I made this thing for $7,500. I couldn't go balls-to-the-wall on visual effects. I had to utilize what I could and make the best of it. I want the mysticism to be treated carefully and with integrity. We just kind of went for it, and did it. And everyone was available, they believed in the project. We picked up the camera, and we went, and we didn't stop.
So it sounds to me as though some of the mystic elements may be there, albeit toned down. To me, this is exactly the way to go. After reading this interview, I'm now convinced that this guy knows what he's talking about when it comes to doing a "Mortal Kombat" movie. Hopefully he was able to convince Warner Brothers of that.
You can check out the original article here, which also includes a link to the full interview:
http://enewsi.com/news.php?catid=190&itemid=17735
mackiain:
--- Quote from: JohnnyL on June 10, 2010, 07:40:32 AM ---
--- Quote from: mackiain on June 10, 2010, 12:03:01 AM ---Not sure I like the idea of Mortal Kombat being about Serial Killers rather than another dimension where the enemies just naturally had powers. None of this self mutilation bs. Jeri Ryan as Sonya blade, shes like 50.
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I totally see where you're coming from. To me, it's not truely "Mortal Kombat" if they don't include some other-worldly characters. I wouldn't mind if that element is played down a bit in the first movie, as the first tournament took place on Earth. But it would be difficult for me to fully accept a "Mortal Kombat" movie that didn't have that element at all.
To be fair though, as far as the actors go, we have no guarantee that even if Warner Bros. were to pick this up as a full length movie, that they'd still cast the same actors from this "pitch" film.
While I'm not really a fan of the hyper realistic Dark Kinight-ification of the characters in here, I really like the tone of this short. If they could keep the dark tone and just incorporate a story that was more like the traditional "Mortal Kombat" story line it would be perfect, imo.
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Ya they definitely have lots of room to play around. They could either do this right or screw it up really badly. I hope it works out. But to be honest I loved the first movie they did in 95.
Putting a new spin on it could be a good idea, let's just hope it doesn't turn out like the most recent Street Fighter movie. Hah!
Matty:
i've read in a few places in relation to this that the other two mortal kombat movies weren't good so room to make something decent from the series. the second movie was pretty crap, but the original mortal kombat movie was easily one of the better video game adaptions to come to the big screen! christopher lambert as raiden! making a film half as enjoyable as that would be a mean feat, i doubt they'd be able to do it.
The-Leak (aka) kingwell (bka) JULES:
Yeah, as long as the fighters can have a some-what logical explanation as to how they got their powers and abilities in the real world, it will work.. Adds a more real sense to the idea of Mortal Kombat.
1 is way better than 2, and they may not be great movies, but I always loved them just because of the idea behind them is so cool.
Here is a trailer to the new Mortal Kombat game coming out via Warner Bros Interactive Ent. http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2010-mortal-kombat/101130
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