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FINISH HIM! Short Film MORTAL KOMBAT: REBIRTH Getting Its Own Series
Director Kevin Tancharoen blew us all away last summer with his gritty, realistic take on the MORTAL KOMBAT franchise in the form of a short film (dubbed MORTAL KOMBAT: REBIRTH) that went viral in a big way. The director became the "twitter" phenome of the week and talks of a rebirth to the film franchise was instantly water cooler talk in the gaming and film community everywhere...
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Now accourding to a new press release from Warner Premiere, the film that started it all is getting turned into a web based mini series. Find our all the details as well as the original trailer below:
Press Release: Warner Premiere today announced development of a live-action digital series based on the best-selling Mortal Kombat videogame franchise. Directed by Kevin Tancharoen, known for his popular unofficial fan short Mortal Kombat: Rebirth which garnered over 10 million views online, and in conjunction with the upcoming Mortal Kombat videogame, this action-packed, digital series will take gamers deep into the history of warriors they know and love such as Scorpion, Johnny Cage and Liu Kang. Shooting for the digital series will take place in Vancouver starting in early February.
Mortal Kombat is one of the most celebrated videogame franchises of all time. Since its debut in 1992, it has spawned four arcade games, 10 console-based videogame titles, two movies (Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation), two televisions series (Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm and Mortal Kombat: Conquest) and an animated prequel Mortal Kombat: The Journey Begins. Additionally, a new Mortal Kombat game will be coming out April 19, 2011 on the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.
Available this spring through online digital retailers from Warner Bros. Digital Distribution, the Mortal Kombat digital series is an anthology of multiple live action shorts, each providing never-before-revealed insights into characters featured in the upcoming videogame as well as the game’s universe. Additional details, including casting, will be announced in the coming weeks.
The latest iteration of the award-winning videogame, Mortal Kombat, marks a triumphant return to the series’ mature presentation and a reinvention of its classic 2D fighting mechanic. Driven by an all new graphics engine, the fan favorite Fatality is back and presented in more gory detail than ever before. In addition, Mortal Kombat introduces a number of new game-play features including tag team and a deep story mode. Mortal Kombat is being developed by NetherRealm Studios, led by Mortal Kombat creator and creative director Ed Boon.
Source: DreadCentral
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Is there any news on that? I heard they were remaking it into an R rated movie?
Who cares about this faux-Mortal Kombat crap. Obviously they don't have enough faith in it to get a deal with HBO (which did Spawn and is use to gritty stuff) or Showtime, Starz, and so on.
GIMME THE FILM! And have Trent Reznor and Marilyn Manson do the music for it.
Thanks for posting though HB.
Ghastly (member of the MK community since 1996)
I also didn't know they owned HBO. Learn something new everyday.
I wonder what they would do it under, like branch of the company, and if it would have it's own website. Probably.
The whole realistic MK thing from this short isn't that appealing to me. I mean, it looks cool, on its own, but I want to see the series based on the actual game. Does that make sense?
I know they tried to do it with the other movies, and when I was younger they were okay, but I'm older now and wanna see the bloody version, lol.
But, given all the gritty reboots, like Batman and so on, this may be the only path people are interested in taking, since it seems to be "in" at the moment.
No one said it'd be A PG rated thing haha. In an interview with the director of the Rebirth short, he said he wants to make it vicious and have the martial arts that made the series something spectacular. Now, I'm not saying I wouldn't rather see evil mystics from another realm but I'm glad that we got something. There won't be a new MK movie for a while since Threshold Entertainment is trying to screw WB over with rights issues.
It comes down to this. If there ever was going to be a sequel to that god awful Paul WS Anderson series it would've been a flop anyway. The only options were this or a reboot of the film and at the moment a film isn't quite feasible. Who knows though, this may inspire WB to take care of whatever bullshit is going on with Threshold and crank out a HARD R MK movie.
I guess from that stand point you make a great point though: this could open the franchise up to more theatrical possibilities, and if this is all I'm gonna get, then I'll accept it gladly, but I'll continue to hope for something else somewhere down the line.
If they really had faith in it, they'd just do it.
I mean, they obviously have the fanbase to do a show on HBO or something. And them owning HBO has nothing to do with them putting it out on there or not. To everyone else HBO is just a name, they don't know who owns what, and if they own it, it's not a big deal to put it out in television format, and it would sure as hell garner more viewers.
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