The remake, reboot, reimagining of Mortal Kombat as a brand new movie franchise is now entering development full swing and it has its release date. The movie, which Eurogamer claims has a confirmed budget just shy of $50 million, will release at sometime in March 2021.
The original Mortal Kombat game was released back in 1992 and it proved very popular with its digitized live-action animations and brutal fatalities. It was only three years later that the first movie adaptation appeared and true to '90s video game movies, it was pretty terrible. Its enjoyable today in an ironic sense and some of the fight scenes are passable, but no one would call it a good movie. The least said about the 1997 sequel the better.
But now with decades of time to forget and many great Mortal Kombat games released in the meantime, the movie franchise is making a comeback and it'll do so in 2021. Despite the 24 year gap between movie releases, this has been a long time coming. A short web series called Mortal Kombat: Legacy was released on YouTube in 2011 to much acclaim and a movie reboot has been a sort-of working project since 2016.
An early draft of the script suggested that a down-on-their-luck boxer is recruited to take part in the tournament, but that was reportedly a story that has since been further developed and perhaps even scrapped entirely. Other details about the story remain thin on the ground, though we'd expect franchise favorites like Sonya Blade, Johnny Cage, Kano, and Shang Tsung to make appearances.
What would you like to see in a new Mortal Kombat movie?