MK movie update/MK Legacy discussion

Nasty_Freak said:
I'd want the guy who directed the first 2 Hostel movies and 2001 maniacs to direct the next MK movie!!!
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While the Hostel movies were good, MK isn't horror.
I just don't want to see a movie that's supposed to be a fighting tournament, being turned into horror.
 
IMO the fatalities shown in Legacy 2 were fairly decent when compared what's been shown in any live action MK adaptation. That being said, it was because they were brutal but not stupidly over the top which works in movies, as opposed to video games. What needs to be done are fixing the effects of them, because even though the budget was restricted and not the best, my god they were amazingly horrible If they kept the same fatality concept for the movie, with the budget they have, I think it'll be a success and it'll make people cringe in their seats at the theatre.

My thoughts on Tancharoen leaving are simply that I'm not surprised. Legacy 2 wasn't up to par with the first season and WB needs to build the brand a tad bit more. Sure there are enough of us oldies who have stuck with MK since day one and saw the first movie in the theatres, but a new younger audience needs to be introduced to the series and bring back the same level of hype in the mid 90's. Only then will WB see this as a hugely successful/profitable franchise, and I think it's going to take MK 10 or even MK 11 to do so.
 
Taj Gill said:
Sure there are enough of us oldies who have stuck with MK since day one and saw the first movie in the theatres, but a new younger audience needs to be introduced to the series and bring back the same level of hype in the mid 90's. Only then will WB see this as a hugely successful/profitable franchise, and I think it's going to take MK 10 or even MK 11 to do so.
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Agreed, but I thought that MK9 already did that, with it being a reboot of the series to familiarize everyone with the MK brand again.
Anyone who doesn't know a good majority (or ALL) of that MK9 main roster, probably doesn't know Mortal Kombat, and I thought that NRS did a good job of re-introducing casual people to those characters in Story Mode.
Story mode seemed to be more of a thing for casual people who heard of Mortal Kombat, or rarely played it.
Most of us MK fans KNOW the MK1 thru MK: Armageddon story, but for those casual people who never played Deadly Alliance, Deception or Armageddon, MK9's Story Mode allowed them to get familiar with those characters again, and bring the story to a new point in time, altogether.
 
Araknyd_Commander said:
Agreed, but I thought that MK9 already did that, with it being a reboot of the series to familiarize everyone with the MK brand again.
Anyone who doesn't know a good majority (or ALL) of that MK9 main roster, probably doesn't know Mortal Kombat, and I thought that NRS did a good job of re-introducing casual people to those characters in Story Mode.
Story mode seemed to be more of a thing for casual people who heard of Mortal Kombat, or rarely played it.
Most of us MK fans KNOW the MK1 thru MK: Armageddon story, but for those casual people who never played Deadly Alliance, Deception or Armageddon, MK9's Story Mode allowed them to get familiar with those characters again, and bring the story to a new point in time, altogether.
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That's true, and I definitely agree, but I'm just saying that maybe WB wants to see how much better a sequel performs due to the acclaim of MK9 and I guess you can say somewhat "mainstream resurgence" of the series and see how that develops further, before they make the movie. After all, MK was a product of overexposure back in the late 90's, I'm thinking WB doesn't want to make the same mistake and build it up slowly, with the web series and all, and that took a blow due to the disappointing numbers of Legacy 2. And besides, the first MK movie didn't come out til 3 games in.
 
First Just want to point out that this is no update from what I read this is the spot to talk about Mk legacy so if Im wrong then im sorry my mistake:). This post is going to be about trying to make sense of Mk legacy timeline. Everything that I will be typing is all IMO so if you guys have any other ideas on the subject Id like to here what you've come up with :)

Sonya, Jax, and Kano: For obvious reason they did not make it to the tourney all 3 of them are basically hospitalized by the end of there episode

Johnny Cage: Some people complain that changing him from Matt to Caspar ruined it. I treat it the same way I treat Don replacing Terrence in Ironman 2 Actors get replaced it happens

Kitana and Mileena: Not much to talk about the events took place way before all the other episodes did so yeah Next

Raiden:A big thing people complain about with Raiden is that he was played by a white guy in season 1 and played by an Asian guy in season. They way I see it Raiden is an elder god if he feels like change his human body he can lol but seriously you can look at the fact that he change his appearance because he escaped an asylum so in order to not be found he changed his look

Scorpion, SubZero and the Lin kuei: Ok so in Season one the old man was the Grand master of the Lin-K but in Season 2 Subby was GM. So how does this make sense you ask??? simple The Cyrax and Sektor episodes take place after season 2 when it was discovered that Subby was killed so the old man (whom Im guessing is Sektor father) took over and decided to change everything.

Now as for the Scorpion Subby episode in Season 2 it was stated that they live in Feudal Japan. I dont think this is true I think they live in a more rural area of Japan in secret that represents the feudal era.


Now for season 2 :)

One of the big things about season two was the fact that Kenshi was alive in the 1100s. The only explanations I could think of was that A. Ermac did more then blinded him by giving him eternal life never to see and living that way forever. Or B. Kenshi seek to make a deal to live forever so he can have all the time in the world to search for Ermac so he can get revenge

and Last but not least Shang Tsung. He was played by a young guy in season 1 and an old Guy in season 2. So why is that you may ask and how will this make sense story wise. I personally think he just misses his old body and just shapes shifts to it from time to time...

So after going over all this its time to put this timeline together



Event1-Kitana Mileena Episode

Event2-Kenshi lose eye site

Event3-Liu Kangs Fiance dies

Event4-Liu Kang kills the killers and goes to Kung Lao

Event5- The whole ordeal with Scorpion and Subzero and quan chi

Event6- Tsung tries to recruit Cage but fails

Event7- Sonya Jax Kano episode shortly after Striker is recruited by Raiden

Event 8 Raiden Recruits Cage

Event 9 Tsung Recruits Kang

Event 10 Episode 1 and 2 of Season2

Event 11 the Tournament begins

Event 12 Tournament over Cyrax Sektor Episode.

Jeez I think I covered everything I kinda thought of all this in half an hour so It may be possible that I missed something :)
 
Hey everyone,

I don't really know where to post this, as a new member I can't post threads I guess. I haven't been a member of message boards like this in years (since I was 12/13 I believe) but I want to get this out there...

My name is Anthony Pellino and as an up and coming filmmaker here in Manhattan and as a zealous MK fan since the first game released back in my childhood, I have assembled a creative team and have begun pre-production on a fan film entitled Mortal Kombat: The One set here in Manhattan. It follows Rayden a few years before the 10th tournament, desperate to find fighters to train. By blackmailing an even more desperate and on-the-run Sub-Zero, (from the Cyber Initiative) he promises him protection from the Lin-Kuei in exchange for services. Together, they devise a way to lure one of the fighters on their list for a test match to see if he is really up to par.

IndieGoGo campaign goes up soon. If we reach $6,000, we can include a very epic Shao Kahn and Kitana epilogue that I am DYING to put in.

Share it, tell me what you think, I'll be around on the forum, finding re-interest in them haha. Sorry if this is against any rules, just want to get this out to all fellow fans! Thanks!

Official Teaser here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah751ssCQE8
 
MortalKombatTheOne said:
Hey everyone,

I don't really know where to post this, as a new member I can't post threads I guess. I haven't been a member of message boards like this in years (since I was 12/13 I believe) but I want to get this out there...

My name is Anthony Pellino and as an up and coming filmmaker here in Manhattan and as a zealous MK fan since the first game released back in my childhood, I have assembled a creative team and have begun pre-production on a fan film entitled Mortal Kombat: The One set here in Manhattan. It follows Rayden a few years before the 10th tournament, desperate to find fighters to train. By blackmailing an even more desperate and on-the-run Sub-Zero, (from the Cyber Initiative) he promises him protection from the Lin-Kuei in exchange for services. Together, they devise a way to lure one of the fighters on their list for a test match to see if he is really up to par.

IndieGoGo campaign goes up soon. If we reach $6,000, we can include a very epic Shao Kahn and Kitana epilogue that I am DYING to put in.

Share it, tell me what you think, I'll be around on the forum, finding re-interest in them haha. Sorry if this is against any rules, just want to get this out to all fellow fans! Thanks!

Official Teaser here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah751ssCQE8
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You have make atleast 5 posts I think before you make a thread.
 
sub-one said:
I read it and comprehended what he said and the direction he's proposing to take the franchise.

I guess what i'm having an issue with is the fact that once again they're attempting to over-complicate the basic premise. What he's saying, I just disagree with it.

If you remember correctly Annihilation was more of a war flick and it was all over the place.

Mk is not about war. It's about avoiding it through the tournament. Few lives are sacrificed so that many may survive.

It becomes a war in MK3 when Outworld invades Earthrealm, but even then it's still a tournament.

My issue is they have never actually done a tournament movie in the case of MK. Even in the first movie only a handful of the fights were actually tournament fights. Every other fight occurred in between the actual tournament matches.

For MK I wanted to see a tournament movie with fights more like Hou Yuanjia vs Master Chin in Feerless accept less wires, more violence and in game inspired locales. The presence of sorcery in the MK universe makes it more plausible to have fights monitored anywhere and them still be considered part of the tournament. Sorcery should be a main theme not an underlying one. with out sorcery Mk wouldn't have the same feel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8c-IlgkgXw

personally I think they should have hired Sammo Hung or Yuen Woo Ping to direct the fights. oh well

*silently weeps*
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I know exactly what you feel. I was disappointed myself.

Besides, what's /wrong/ with making MK a 'dance' film, anyway? It's supposed to be films like "Bloosport, Enter the Dragon," etc, etc... not the Hunger Games.
 
Kevin tanch had it right with his mk rebirth short, add superpowers to that and BAM the perfect mk movie, a rated R bloodsport tournament style movie, if possible I would hire the entire The Raid movie team to work on the mk movie.
 
So does anyone know if this movie is canceled or in limbo. Seems like the idea of a movie just got tossed out since Kevin left for whatever reason that was.
 
pgd42 said:
So does anyone know if this movie is canceled or in limbo. Seems like the idea of a movie just got tossed out since Kevin left for whatever reason that was.
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I suspect it might be the case, due to (from what I've seen), large amounts of negative reception of Legacy II and the fact that I haven't heard anything about it for awhile, though, it was stated that Kevin left and was not going to be part of directing the MK movie, which seems to suggest it's still in the works by others.
 
Let's hope so and that they're looking for a more suitable talent to direct. I was all for giving Kevin a chance but his directing was way too cliche and cheesy. I'd rather wait for a good movie than have him make anything less than great. This franchise will only get one shot. I think WB knows there's a lot of money to be made from it though.
 
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