Strange Sounding Premise Of Upcoming MORTAL KOMBAT Reboot Revealed

Although we haven't heard much from this in some time, it seems Kevin Tancharoen is still set to direct a brand new adaptation of the popular video game franchise, and we have some details..

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By Mark "RorMachine" Cassidy - 6/18/2012
Bloody Disgusting have done some digging in regards to Warner Bros. planned reboot of the Mortal Kombat movie franchise. Apparently it is still moving forward with director Kevin Tancharoen attached, and they have also managed to uncover some details about the basic premise of the movie..



With Kevin Tancharoen still attached to direct from Oren Uziel’s screenplay, we’ve exclusively discovered that the live-action reboot will follow a lowly unlucky supermarket employee who discovers that he has out of this world powers and must decide between good and evil, even though the evil side has helped him discover his true potential and who he really is.


Tancharoen and Uziel brought us the short film Mortal Kombat: Rebirth and the subsequent web series Mortal Kombat: Legacy starring Michael Jai White and Jeri Ryan. They were impressive enough in their own right but jettisoned many of the fantasy elements in favor of a more realistic take on things. At least this would suggest that they wont be going the same route with the movie. Actually sounds as if they are trying to make this a superhero origin story type of thing. I'm going to assume this "lowly unlucky supermarket employee" will be a brand new character, unless they plan to drastically alter Johnny Cage or Liu Kang or something! But I'm sure those guys, as well as a whole bunch of other popular characters, will turn up to mentor the little fella. It still sounds like a strange way to go about it to me though, what to you guys think?









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jessepostal - 6/18/2012, 6:11 AM
Hmm it's gotta be liu kang?
Anthrax - 6/18/2012, 6:11 AM
WHAT THE [frick]!
HavocPrime - 6/18/2012, 6:14 AM
So they just going to ignore the success of the Web Series then, yes?
IronDean2099 - 6/18/2012, 6:25 AM
Sounds like the Sorcerers Apprentice. Terrible.
jaycranney - 6/18/2012, 6:35 AM
Why can't they just give us what we want and stick to the original god damn story???

The web series was great and it obviously worked but this sounds friggin ridiculous!!!
thalidomide - 6/18/2012, 6:40 AM
There was a web series?
darkspark - 6/18/2012, 6:44 AM
The fantasy elements were in the web series just slightly played down. If they were absent i doubt Raiden or Kitana or even Scorpion would have made appearances.
Destroyer7 - 6/18/2012, 6:48 AM
hmmm...
Giznad - 6/18/2012, 6:51 AM
So the main character is Ash from Evil Dead? Suh-weet
Triptheorist - 6/18/2012, 6:52 AM
The web series is overrated, but I'd take it any day over the plot that they posted above. I think the first movie is the best we're ever going to get.
thalidomide - 6/18/2012, 6:52 AM
arachnidzpr7 - 6/18/2012, 6:54 AM
I wana see liu kang and kang lau
thalidomide - 6/18/2012, 6:55 AM
imnotwearinghockeypants - 6/18/2012, 7:01 AM
Every character should be played by Nic Cage.
BlackFlash - 6/18/2012, 7:01 AM
That's WB for you always fu*king up a good thing.
thalidomide - 6/18/2012, 7:06 AM
TheBigBoss917 - 6/18/2012, 7:09 AM
Wow cmon i had high hopes this is looking like Tekken
Crossbones - 6/18/2012, 7:09 AM
@therealgoomba: Rebirth sucked ass and wasn't even Mortal Kombat and this new reboot shit premise they have now just pissed me the [frick] off sooo [frick]ing bad!!!!!!
CyberBishop - 6/18/2012, 7:11 AM
Shit... Complete Shit..
thalidomide - 6/18/2012, 7:11 AM
THORGodOfThunder - 6/18/2012, 7:12 AM
WTFFFFFFFFFF
CharlesTheIncredible - 6/18/2012, 7:23 AM
Dont know how I feel about this yet. That could be Johnny Cage after his popularity in the entertainment industry drops.
thalidomide - 6/18/2012, 7:26 AM
GreyChaos13Zero - 6/18/2012, 7:29 AM
would be badass if they went with Kung Lao as the main protagonist, but I think it's gonna be Liu Kang. hope they don't drop the sci-fi elements and make this as brutal as can be?)

Mysterion - 6/18/2012, 7:35 AM
"a lowly unlucky supermarket employee who discovers that he has out of this world powers and must decide between good and evil"
WTFFFF
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FireKnightRises - 6/18/2012, 7:35 AM
this sounds shit
every movie based from video game are shit
Mysterion - 6/18/2012, 7:39 AM
I already see them casting Taylor Lautner as the supermarket employee...

SiriusC - 6/18/2012, 7:39 AM
Sounds awful. I didn't like the web series either.

I'd really really love a gritty, up-to-date version of a Mortal Kombat film. I liked the first two as a kid, but I don't think I would look favorably upon them now. I can't believe this idea was green-lit :(
sweetre15 - 6/18/2012, 7:41 AM
If this is true then KT and Uziel are the biggest dumbasses to ever do an adaptation.
jessepostal - 6/18/2012, 7:43 AM
Just because it's about a guy who works in a supermarket and has to pick between good and evil doesn't mean it's gonna be light hearted people.
thalidomide - 6/18/2012, 7:44 AM
Shadowelfz - 6/18/2012, 7:48 AM
That's... not... mortal kombat. At ALL! Jesus Friggen Christ if a studio wants to make a new story than make a new story. Stop attaching older properties to them to pull in thier fan bases an then changing it to something completely different. This trend in Holywood needs to stop.
sweetre15 - 6/18/2012, 7:50 AM
@jessepostal: You're right but that doesn't stop it from being awful,unnecessary, and disrespectful to the source.
Boogie138 - 6/18/2012, 7:55 AM
i feel sick to my tummy... oh god...
sweetre15 - 6/18/2012, 8:00 AM

@Shadowelfz: Exactly, MK fans haven't been waiting for an MK reboot for over a decade just to have it be NOTHING like the [frick]in source material.
Darkhawk8 - 6/18/2012, 8:10 AM
@thalidomide damn dat ass on Jade!! You know the name of that cosplayer?
JULEZ13 - 6/18/2012, 8:16 AM
Wow, this sounds awful.

You would think since the studio waited almost 20 years to greenlight a MK film that it would be true to the game.

But then this guy comes along. I thought his webseries was gonna be good after watching his short film, but as the series went along it just got worse and worse.

I hoped they would've still made the movie knowing people still want it but with a different director and writer. This is gonna be another Street Fighter, or worse, Tekken. SMH.

Way to go WB.
AlexDeLarge87 - 6/18/2012, 8:26 AM
WOW sounds brilliant!:D... NOOOOOT!!!!
HavocPrime - 6/18/2012, 8:43 AM


Paul WS Anderson's film on Mortal Kombat is oscar material compared to the new premise.
wildbillyb - 6/18/2012, 8:48 AM
Yeah, they really need to ditch a storyline and just have a fight tournament where one dude or chick ends up winning by fatalatying everyone in his/her path. I'd watch that movie if it had great fight choreography. Hell, I liked bloodsport and The Quest. Why not use more of a model like that?
jessepostal - 6/18/2012, 8:51 AM
@sweetre does anything follow the source anymore? And it's not like the plot revolves around the supermarket, it's a tiny fragment of the plot. Your a little early on your spectacle
GrayFox1025 - 6/18/2012, 9:09 AM
This just sounds awful

The webseries itself wasnt even good. I am a HUGE MK fan and was just soooooooo disappointed, and bored, with the web series. They [frick]ed with the source material way too much
demonizer84 - 6/18/2012, 9:21 AM
whoever posted that jade cosplay picture that ass is fookin amazing, and as for this bit of leaked info, i doubt it, KT did wonders with the rebirth clip and the legacy stories, one of my favs being raidens that was awesome, i think he knows what he is doing and he aint gonna fudge it up
2gold - 6/18/2012, 9:25 AM
Oh never change WB, never change.
SUPERBATSPIDERMAN - 6/18/2012, 9:26 AM
O thought the Web series was fantastic and I wish they still made it. They should make a movie that is kind of like the web series. I especailly loved Michael Jae White in the show he was awesome.
hope420 - 6/18/2012, 9:31 AM
Well this sucks! The web series was so good and now they are pooping on all the good hard work they did!
Dedpool - 6/18/2012, 9:47 AM
Um Why? Why not just continue from Legacy?!?
Bark4Soul - 6/18/2012, 9:52 AM
Daaaammmnnn at that Jade pic....god damn
KingEmperor - 6/18/2012, 10:26 AM
I'll just watch Warrior and imagine that the Conlon bros are Liu Kang and Kung Lao, their dad as Bo Rai Cho, Mad Dog as Johnny Cage, Koba as Goro, and all the other fighters as random MK characters. There's my Mortal Kombat.
jazzman - 6/18/2012, 10:33 AM
this cant be true. this sounds so sh!t

Kevin Tancharoen cant agree to this crappy story i just cant believe it.
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