If the movie doesn't follow the original game or the reboot game (2011 I think right?) then I won't be too interested in it. I absolutely don't want a Lewis Tan original fighter in the film. Why try to make up a story when the original story or any of the game stories are pre-made for a movie. If they were doing a true reboot then go back and do the 1st film with a slightly updated script and better and longer fight scenes or do MK9. At least doing MK9 would give us all the entire 1 - 3 story-line in the first film allowing either the 3D era to follow or the new games we have now. I did hate the leaked script. None of it made any sense to me as a MK fan and sure you cannot please everyone but straying too far from the original story we all know would almost certain kill this franchise in the media. Keeping my fingers crossed something good comes of this new project but I too feel it is already doomed by MK fans/players standards.

Surprise, surprise.

Expect nothing and you'll never be surprised. Or, in this case, expect nothing and you'll never be disappointed. My hope for this film to remain loyal to the video game off of which it's based was dashed when they started focusing on being very liberal in their effort to meet diversity standards presented to filmmakers by the current political climate in Hollywood. It'd be so much easier to do a more professionally written/directed adaptation of MK9, as trynax mentioned. I don't know why filmmakers take it upon themselves to deviate from the source material with a complete disregard for the existing fan base.

Ah well. These days, movies are mostly shit, anyway. Remakes, reboots, and copycat films overwhelm what was once a wide-ranging industry. The industry will either continue to gradually correct itself as political correctness fades, or keep on playing second fiddle to the video game industry.