Last August, we reported that James Wan (Insidious, The Conjuring, Saw) was going to act as the producer on a new Mortal Kombat film. Since then, nothing. Zip, zilch, nada.
However, in a recent interview with IGN at the Television Critics Association, Wan gave an update assuring us that it’s still happening but that it’s all a matter of doing it right.
It’s still cooking away. With that particular project, that’s a really cool property that I loved growing up as a kid. Besides the game, even the movies as well, I kind of enjoyed them for what they are.
The key here is to try and do it right. I don’t want to rush into it. So right now, we’re just trying to take our time to make sure it’s heading in the right direction. I think that’s more important than trying to rush through it and pump up something that no one likes.
The Mortal Kombat web series “Legacy” was a smash success, drawing a lot of praise for its gritty and more realistic approach to the property.
Wan however is more interested in the “fun” aspect of the series, saying, “I love the characters. I think they’re such colorful characters. It’s such an amazing take on, basically, Enter the Dragon. It’s that fantasy version, the video game version, of Enter the Dragon. And in doing so, they ended up creating such interesting characters and I think that is such a cool world to explore. This really mythical, bigger world that lives on another dimension on top of ours. I think that’s really fun to play with and so we’ll see.”
Just recently, Christopher Lambert, who played “Raiden” in the original 1997 film, was supposedly quoted as saying that there was a very interesting time-travel concept being bandied about. However, game creator Ed Boon quickly put the kibosh on that with an emphatic “Nope”.