With the WB throwing money at the already dying Midway game studio to outright buy the rights to most of their library of games, the speculation began as to which of the popular titles they would attempt to adapt to films. Mortal Kombat would have been their most popular, but lets not leave out such concepts DYING for adaptation like Spy Hunter and Joust.
But the rumours seem to point in one direction, and that would be Mortal Kombat 3.
Warner Bros. has bought most of Midway Games’ assets in a bankruptcy court fire sale for $33 million, including the rights to some of their most popular video games like MORAL KOMBAT, SPY HUNTER, and JOUST. WB’s plans for those properties are kept secret for now but they didn’t buy Midway development studios in San Diego and England.
Former actor and karate teacher Chris Casamassa, who was a stunt performer playing Scorpion in the original two Mortal Kombat movies. Cassamassa said that he’s set to start filming MORTAL KOMBAT 3 in September.
Now keep in mind this is some wild speculation and the off the cuff statement of a stunt actor doesn’t mean the movie is actually happening.
But if it was happening, is there any life left in the fanbase of Mortal Kombat to justify a film? Even with the wildly successful relaunch of Street Fighter 4 didn’t help The Legend of Chun-Li springboard an ongoing franchise of Streetfighter films (which I had to assume was the intent leaving out their most popular characters) so is there anything worth while in another Mortal Kombat film?
I didn’t mind the first film. It wasn’t great. But Mortal Kombat Annihilation was the first film I was ever tempted to walk out on. Walking out of a film denies you any right to have an opinion on it, so I never do. But that one was close.
Would you want to see Mortal Kombat 3? What if they rebooted it?
