As any of you who have read my articles should know by now, I am a die-hard Mortal Kombat fan and currently am writing a fan script. Kevin Tancharoen has brought life and new interest in a Mortal Kombat reboot. He did it with Mortal Kombat: Rebirth, a short film that ruined everything that made Mortal Kombat cool by making it realistic. He then came out with Mortal Kombat: Legacy, a web series that had a mix of realism and fantasy that made for an overall pretty good web series and he was announced as director of the reboot. But, there are a couple concerns I have with this. Here I will explain why I am loosing/lost faith in his "vision" of the Mortal Kombat franchise.
1: Budget
This is the biggest reason why there is no release date or real casting announcements yet. They haven't settled on a budget. This for any movie is a real problem. No crew, no movie. No budget, no movie.
2: His "vision"
There are many problems with his vision. The best example is the picture above. Want to know who that is suppose to be? Baraka. Yes, a tarkatan (a human, demon hybrid). His vision is a black guy whom is a surgeon who wents nuts and surgically attached blades to his arms. Yes, he wants things real. I also want to put my foot up his.. nope nvm. I'm gonna keep this PG, but you get the point. This is not the person who should be helming the rebooted adaptation to my favorite videogame franchise.
3: Premise
Don't even get me started: "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." I am going to take a wild guess and say that the rumor is true. At that point, I wanted to commit suicide (not really, but that's what it felt like). I really shouldn't have to explain why this is a bad call.
4: Season 2 expectations, Johnny Cage
I understand they had to do an origin episode for Johnny Cage. But, from what I can tell. This will have NO humor at all, maybe a slight chuckle here or there but that is it. No comedy from the comic relief. Are you kidding me? Plus, their gonna have Rain and Kenshi as well as Kung Lao and Lui Kang. Lui Kang and Kung Lao should be immediates. Rain would be pretty nice but they should have waited longer for Kenshi.
5: Pronunciation
They pronounced the realm of Edenia wrong, they pronounce Sindel wrong! How do you do that? The pronunciation is already in the games, how do you screw that up???
I apologize if this comes off more as a rant. But overall, I had some faith in the reboot because of the web series. I look at everything now, despite the web series still being good overall. I have lost any faith in this reboot that I ever had. I'm confident (but not in a cocky way) that my fan made script is what would make a successful MK movie. Not the crap that their churning up. Give Ed Boon the control that they gave J.K Rowling for the Harry Potter movies. Sure, Netherrealm Studios is owned by Warner Bros. but should that mean he bows down to them? I call bullcrap on the whole thing.
What do you think? Comment below.