Yes, James Wan is producing a Mortal Kombat film. We’re living in wonderful times.
Badass characters like Scorpion, Raiden, and Kitana are ready to battle on the big screen in a feature film reboot of the Mortal Kombat franchise, and Variety reports tonight that a director has finally been found. Simon McQuoid, primarily known for directing commercials, is in talks to helm the fight flick for New Line Cinema. Greg Russo penned the script’s most recent draft.
We don’t yet know much of anything about New Line’s plans for the property, but back in August, James Wan told IGN that he’s hoping to explore the world introduced by the video games.
Said Wan:
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.
Previous adaptations of the Mortal Kombat video games include two feature films: Paul W.S. Anderson’s Mortal Kombat in 1995, and sequel Mortal Kombat: Annihilation in 1997. The box office failure of the latter led to the plug being pulled on the franchise. Most recently, the kickass web-series “Mortal Kombat: Legacy” put a grounded-in-reality spin on the MK universe.
Michael Clear will produce for Atomic Monster, along with Todd Garner and Jeremy Stein through their Broken Road banner. Lawrence Kasanoff is executive producing.
