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New Line Reboots ‘Mortal Kombat’
By MIKE FLEMING | Thursday September 29, 2011 @ 4:27pm EDT
Tags: Ian Anthony Dale, Jeri Ryan, Kevin Tancharoen, Lateef Crowder, Matt Mullins, Michael Jai White, Mortal Kombat, Oren Uziel
Comments (1) New Line Cinema is bringing back Mortal Kombat, setting up a live-action reboot of the martial arts-heavy franchise that will be written by Oren Uziel and directed by Kevin Tancharoen. The director wouldn’t be the first guy one would think of for a chopsocky action film given a resume that includes Fame and, most recently, Glee: The Documentary, the 3D concert movie that didn’t do much business this summer. But both of those guys have earned the work, since it was their unauthorized viral short that breathed life into a dormant franchise.
Uziel wrote and Tancharoen directed the eight-minute short film Mortal Kombat: Rebirth, which starred Michael Jai White as Jax, Jeri Ryan as Sonya Blade, Matt Mullins as Johnny Cage, Ian Anthony Dale as Scorpion and Lateef Crowder as Baraka. Tancharoen did this with the idea that he could prove himself to Warner Bros as an action director and reboot the movie franchise. Initially, Warner Games, which put out a video game reboot in April 2011, wasn’t amused and sought to shut down the project. But Tancharoen’s effort created enough of a demand when it leaked online that the studio’s digital division, Warner Premiere, made a deal with him to generate a 10-episode Web series. Those episodes began airing on YouTube in April 2011.
New Line then went to Tancharoen and Uziel and put together the movie. Mortal Kombat premiered in 1995, and the original film grossed $122 million worldwide. Interest waned with the 1997 sequel Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, which grossed only $51.3 million worldwide. The studio is keeping the plot under wraps. Uziel wrote The Kitchen Sink, a mashup of vampires, zombies and aliens that made the Black List and sold to Sony Pictures and producer Matt Tolmach.
By MIKE FLEMING | Thursday September 29, 2011 @ 4:27pm EDT
Tags: Ian Anthony Dale, Jeri Ryan, Kevin Tancharoen, Lateef Crowder, Matt Mullins, Michael Jai White, Mortal Kombat, Oren Uziel
Comments (1) New Line Cinema is bringing back Mortal Kombat, setting up a live-action reboot of the martial arts-heavy franchise that will be written by Oren Uziel and directed by Kevin Tancharoen. The director wouldn’t be the first guy one would think of for a chopsocky action film given a resume that includes Fame and, most recently, Glee: The Documentary, the 3D concert movie that didn’t do much business this summer. But both of those guys have earned the work, since it was their unauthorized viral short that breathed life into a dormant franchise.
Uziel wrote and Tancharoen directed the eight-minute short film Mortal Kombat: Rebirth, which starred Michael Jai White as Jax, Jeri Ryan as Sonya Blade, Matt Mullins as Johnny Cage, Ian Anthony Dale as Scorpion and Lateef Crowder as Baraka. Tancharoen did this with the idea that he could prove himself to Warner Bros as an action director and reboot the movie franchise. Initially, Warner Games, which put out a video game reboot in April 2011, wasn’t amused and sought to shut down the project. But Tancharoen’s effort created enough of a demand when it leaked online that the studio’s digital division, Warner Premiere, made a deal with him to generate a 10-episode Web series. Those episodes began airing on YouTube in April 2011.
New Line then went to Tancharoen and Uziel and put together the movie. Mortal Kombat premiered in 1995, and the original film grossed $122 million worldwide. Interest waned with the 1997 sequel Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, which grossed only $51.3 million worldwide. The studio is keeping the plot under wraps. Uziel wrote The Kitchen Sink, a mashup of vampires, zombies and aliens that made the Black List and sold to Sony Pictures and producer Matt Tolmach.
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hell yea!!!!
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I like the MK Legacy series and the first movie is one of my personal childhood favorites. Its good to hear dude accomplished what he was trying to do so I hope it turns out good, at least solid. Ill definitely see it.
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Is this the movie for all them live-action mini-joints on youtube? Oh that ish gon' be ill
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it wont top the first movie music
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mortal kombattttt!!!
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LOL they gotta bring the music back
Reboot? I guess they gonna with the "new" story where Liu Kang aint the main character anymore -
Hmmmm... It better be good.
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MissLeading wrote: »Hmmmm... It better be good.
what you know about mortal kombatttttt!? -
liu kang and kung lao are cousins
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what you know about mortal kombatttttt!?
I played that game allllll the time when I was kid. My favorite nintendo game. Yes, I'm taking back to nintendo. Scorpion was my dude -
it wont top the first movie music
lol... would be wierd, corny and dope all at the same time if they put this in the new movie... -
MissLeading wrote: »I played that game allllll the time when I was kid. My favorite nintendo game. Yes, I'm taking back to nintendo. Scorpion was my dude
since when was MK on nintendo?
lol -
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bankrupt baller wrote: »since when was MK on nintendo?
lol
As I recall it looked something like this:
Excuse me... Super Nintendo...
Do you know how long ago that was??? Lol -
thats super nintendo....not nintendo
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bankrupt baller wrote: »thats super nintendo....not nintendo
Shut up.. You're just being petty.. Smh.. Let me have my memories. I had both systems so whatever. -
MissLeading wrote: »Shut up.. You're just being petty.. Smh.. Let me have my memories.
ok,im sorry.....
ever play halo on nintendo?
? is fire -
bankrupt baller wrote: »ok,im sorry.....
ever play halo on nintendo?
? is fire
I know nothing about halo.
Double dragon, Zelda, streetfighter, mk etc.. I haven't been into games in a while. My little brother loves them. You like "infamous" on P3? That's a cool game. -
MissLeading wrote: »I know nothing about halo.
Double dragon, Zelda, streetfighter, mk etc.. I haven't been into games in a while. My little brother loves them. You like "infamous" on P3? That's a cool game.
infamous is ok....i got it for free when the playstation network got fixed.... -
MissLeading wrote: »I played that game allllll the time when I was kid. My favorite nintendo game. Yes, I'm taking back to nintendo. Scorpion was my dude
oh word?
scorpion aint ? with sub zero tho...
and what you know about infamous!? -
oh word?
scorpion aint ? with sub zero tho...
and what you know about infamous!?
Really?..........Really?
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funkdocdamc wrote: »Really?..........Really?
lol
ive proven it time and time again...lol
that ? even had his own game
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ive proven it time and time again...lol
that ? even had his own game
that game was fire when it first came out -
oh word?
scorpion aint ? with sub zero tho...
and what you know about infamous!?
C/S.....how they gonna ? my favorite character with a bucket of water?......they did him ? . -
I'm prayin for a new Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks smfh