Those sound like some great ideas.

Thanks!

Your Welcome

I feel the same way.

Sometimes I wish I had the power to direct Mk3. What this movie needs is a TRUE FAN involved with the project.

Mk has SO MUCH story potential .HUGE! 1/30 is just not enough!!!

Mk should be an epic film. It has so much more then just fights, it’s a war between the realms, its mythology, its got everything it needs to make the biggest epic film in history (even more then the lord of the rings).

More then one movie is required. More then just 1/30.

It should have alot have all that mush mush blah blah epic and better fight scenes too. Like mix Robin Shou's choreography with almost Matrix style fights. digitized or not, they have to be faster paced. also you could mix the epicnessness into the fight for instance, Scorp vs Subzero in mk4. Scorp is chasing Sub all over the place, throwing punches but missing and going straight through a wall. all the while Sub is evading trying to convince Scorp that it wasn't him who killed his family. Suddenly, Scorp finally grabs him, takes out his spear and jabs it straight at his neck. Just as it pokes the skin of his jugular, Quan Chi comes out of nowhere and tells him of what realy happened (with the song in the background from when Lui was talking to Shang before he knocks him on to the spikes) and a big BUM BUM BUUUUUM when Quan says," It was I! HAHAHAHAHA!"

I want each actor who portrays the characters in Mortal Kombat to learn their character's martial arts style and do research on their character. If an actor was to play Sub-Zero they must know that he has a dark past and that he was betrayed before, Sub-Zero should be a lonley character who does not trust many people, the only people he does trust are Raiden, Liu Kang and the other Earthrealm warriors.

I want the special effects people to study anatomy for the fatalities. Make the tearing of limbs and decapitations of heads look real. It would be a huge shock to the audience and even the fans of Mortal Kombat. Blood should be poured like water in this movie.

Have a protagonist and an antagonist in the film. I like the idea of having Sub-Zero as the protagonist but it's up in the air on who should be the antagonist. Mabey Quan Chi or have The Deadly Alliance together?

Music is key to capture the mood and atmosphere in a scene, in fights the music should be adrenaline pumping but with classical instruments has anyone heard the song O Fortuna? Songs in that category should be played in the epic fight scenes. Why not recruit Dan Forden to write some music for the movie?

I also think that the Mortal Kombat team should be a part of the production of a movie. They would make the movie alot better by telling the director how the story goes and what they could do and what they can't do, (Look at MKA, there should be limits on expanding the story from the game and the movie.

I also think that the movie shows each character's view on the conflict in the movie, what their feelings are towards each other and what their personality is like. Mortal Kombat 1 captured the main characters personalities very well.

I also feel that if this MK movie has the same sortof cheesey feel to it like MK:A then we are screwed as far as the MK franchise goes in the Moives sector.

EXACTLY I've been thinking the exact same thing. I agree fully. MK has incredible potential. So much that it's sad, because it seems like the movie producers are blind to this. This was especially obvious with the heart beaking MK: Annihilation (I wo'nt even go there). And I do agree that MK3 should only be worked on by people who are in love with the series. MK has too large of a fanbase to be produced by someone who does'nt give a crap. MK has all the ingrediets of an epic film. There's no reason, in my mind, that the film should be inferior to the Lord of the Rings. It definitely has the potential to be even geater. All it takes is passion, dedication and hard work.

Couldnt agree more, let us pray for the epicness...

What the movie-team needs is a true fan involved in the project.

A core problem with MK movies is that directors and production teams seem to think that we want to see 1.) pointless violence 2.) "special moves" 3) as many characters as they can possibly cram into one movie, despite the absence of adequate character development and 4.) more unnecessary violence.

What I think we want is:

1.) Acting...

2.) RELEVANT violence...

3.) A director with a passionate vision for MK. (now, the way I see this is: even if a director isn't a diehard MK fan, they might simply be inspired by the massive amount of lore/mythology which surrounds the series, thus being provoked to shed some light on a few areas of MK that even FANS are oblivious to. Anyone with vision, who takes this project very seriously, is a winner in my book. If you're looking at the movie as "just another directing job", why bother?)

4.) A good story that actually stays FOCUSED on what it's trying to accomplish...

5.) A relatively small, well-selected cast of characters/supporting characters that each play an important role in the unfolding of the film...

6.) and perhaps a few special moves...????

So, all in all, I believe we want more than a Mortal Kombat movie that is merely..."good for what it is". We want a good MOVIE!

Dude, I could had not said that better.

I 120% agree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Like I said, a true fan must be involved.

Yeah MK3 needs to be dramatic, needs not to be called mk3 either. We need a new start. Fresh take........

check my concept out:
http://www.mortalkombatonline.com/content/forum/showmessage.cds?id=34300

I agree, they shud make it more dramatic and they need to do that with the characters so that people can actually KNOW y a certain character died or needs to die...if they understand the story and make it DEEP, and make sure the characters have a bold plot, it'll be great.....for example, in X2, wen Jean dies, we knew y, we knew everything and it made it cool....same in Spiderman movies, wen the villains die, even tho they are bad, they make it seem super WOW! get wat im sayin?

Yeh man!

In reality please director of MK3 take the time to understand what we really want in an MK film.

Finally some people who are making sense. I've been saying this over and over again, but some people just want a 90 min piece of crap and techno. MK has the ability to quite awesome and epic on the Lord of the Rings scale, but it would have to be handeled properlly.

A fan doesn't necassarily mean a good movie though.
See Daredevil, Batman & Robin, and the coming soon Fantastic Four movie.

Besides there is soo much MK stuff outthere, you can't possibly try to present it all. That just wouldn't work. You have to try to appeal to the general movie public.

Besides though, very few films get a theatrical sequel after a bombing of their previous film. So chances of MK3 are quite small. Also half of the actors in the MK movies are looking for work anyways, so if they hear of a MK3, of course they're gonna want to talk and hope its happening, but honestly I don't see it happening. Esp with the epic scale in mind, some serious cash would have to be put into the film. Not saying it couldn't be done (I could do it).

I seem to agree that Mortal Kombat 3 should be more dramatic. If you know movies then you know that there is one and only one rule to drama and that is the almighty rule that "conflict equals drama". In the first Mortal Kombat movie. Every character had a destiny that was either prolonged or fulfilled during the movie. For example, Sonya was after Kano for killing her partner, Johnny Cage was out to prove he wasn't a fake, and Liu was about to avenge the death of his brother. These were the elements that, if mortal kombat was just a fight to the death tournament, with no story elements like that, then I most certainly can guarantee you that we would've never had an MK:annihilation.
Another thing that people deathly ignore is that, the music to the next mortal kombat movie is totally essential. The parts of the movie ie: fights, romantic scenes, dramatic endings should all have what the experts call "mood fitting songs". The songs I think fit into the movies were the tribal melody that played when they were on their way to Shang Tsung's island, The dramatic beat ( that was mentioned by someone else on the forum) when Liu is just about to knock Shang into the pit of nails, and the Mortal Kombat theme is inevitable. MY WORD: IF I PAY FOR THE MOVIE AND I DON'T HEAR THE THEME SONG, I WILL ASK FOR A REFUND AND BEGIN A SEARCH AND DESTROY MISSION FOR THE DIRECTOR! I think the dumbest song was the song in MK:annihilation, when Jade had just started to fight Liu Kang after seducing him...that song bite sounded like it should've been in a porno movie, but overall MK usually has an average mix of good movie songs and i expect the same from the next.

the script mk-a new dawn posted on mkrevolution.net is based on the dramatic and epic style. just like the original poster of this thread wanted. i mean, i dont know how many people who read it or liked it for that matter who posted or has read this thread, but if you havent or enjoyed it alot, go check it out. and for all those who liked it, the sequels been sent and the webmaster should be reading it soon or is in the middle of reading it.

just my thoughts

mk1

- scenes changing continuously
- variety of characters
- a decent story

mk2

- shit story
- over cooked with rhealms and wierd balls traveling through earth
- but one good thing they intoduced was cyrax and a few other new characters.

mk3:

- should have the same concepts as MK1
- costumes should be similar to the game
- good storyline, not too korny like mka
- blood
- a fatality
- if they do an animality ..they better make it a good one mka sucked balls
- some intense weapon fighting
- change in scene, e.g fighting on the edge of a cliff...to fighting in a city and jumping from building to building
- action techniques and computer animation from the two following movies
matrix
blade : trinity
- a bit of black humor never hurt

nice thread by the way
cheers

It seems that alot of people agree that the first MK was hands down better than MK:A, and it was. Do many people know why that is, from what I've learned I think I know.Threshold andNew Line Cinema both produced the film, but Threshold had a bigger role in the first film so they had more freedom, so I guess they wanted to follow the MK story. New Line Cinema of course had a bigger role with MK:A.
As I understand there were problems with Threshold and New Line about another movie. So Threshold just waited until New Line's rights to MK was up, so now Threshold has control. So my best bet is that if you liked the first MK, then the third should be just as good if not better than first. Especially with todays technology and filming. I'll try to find a reliable source for this info, I just can't remember where I got this info from. But I think it's legit.

So what your saying is Threshold should have more control over the prouduction? Well if they were responsible for MK1 i think they should have more control definately.

I'm not saying Threshold SHOULD have control, but that they are in control, the rights now belong to them. They make the big decisions.

http://mk3movie.mortalkombatonline.com/mk3movieiandt.html

check out this page, it should be very informative.

I got a brillant IDEA how about for once make a Mortal Kombat Movie Rated R

why in the world did the first two movies about a game that is based around a tournament that fights to the death be rated pg 13 oh i know now


to line some pockets with cheese



seriously make the movie rated R and if you kill off peoples favorite characters make it so brutal that people will turn there heads


you know like those rated X horor movied were they make you watch a guys head get cut off

Im not sure if that makes MK3 dramatic and epic