MK Legacy director, Kevin Tancharoen, gets green light to produce new MK movie

[Tim Static]

Mortal Kombat is heading back to the big-screen.
New Line is hiring the filmmakers of the popular Mortal Kombat digital series, made earlier this year by corporate sibling Warner Bros. Digital Distribution, to take on a new adaptation of the classic 1990s fighting game.

The movie deal marks the end of a journey for Kevin Tancharoen, who will direct the new film. Tancharoen, a choreographer for Madonna and Britney Spears who directed the 2009 remake of Fame and more recently the Glee concert movie, directed a short film Mortal Kombat: Rebirth as a proof of concept for a Kombat movie he tried to pitch. A huge fan of the video game (and knowing Hollywood wouldn’t give him a shot at the title), he enlisted Oren Uziel to write the short and hired actors such as Michael Jai White and Jeri Ryan.
The short was viewed more than 10 million times on YouTube, and although no movie deal materialized, he was asked to direct the 10-episode web series, which debuted in April, attracting more than 50 million unique visitors.

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Thanks to hecterific and Kevin himself and all the MK fans for spreading the word on Twitter!

 

[RollTide8569]

I never got around to watching the MK: Legacy shows

I hope the movie will be awesome

 

[Pikachu]

This movie will only apeal 15 year old boys and fanboys. You can't make a good out of video game let alone MK. It will probably sell alit tho. But quantity isn't the same as quality right Static...

 

[Tim Static]

This movie will only apeal 15 year old boys and fanboys. You can't make a good out of video game let alone MK. It will probably sell alit tho. But quantity isn't the same as quality right Static...

not even close to being the same thing.....

 

[Pikachu]

I'd say about as close as the bieber vs cod thing.

 

[Tim Static]

I'd say about as close as the bieber vs cod thing.

there was no bieber vs CoD. it was CoD being garbage. I was saying like CoD, Bieber sells billions of records, but that doesnt make him, or CoD quality. So i guess if you mean if this new MK movie sells a ton it wont mean its good?

 

[Pikachu]

You don't get it do you. Maybe if you ate more bacon

 

[Dreamcatcher]

I really liked the short... but I didn't like the Legacy series at all. I'm sure I'll see it.

 

[Tim Static]

You don't get it do you. Maybe if you ate more bacon

lol more? i dont eat bacon. Still my comparison was spot on. Garbage sells well, its doesnt mean its good.

 

[Dreamcatcher]

Garbage sells well, its doesnt mean its good.

This is quote of the fucking year.

 

[GoldenOreos]

this is prob going to be good but make no sense what so ever. legacy series imo was done well but in terms of mk it was like wtf im

 

[Dreamcatcher]

this is prob going to be good but make no sense what so ever. legacy series imo was done well but in terms of mk it was like wtf im

Yeah, Raiden is a psych ward patient. Enough said.