woah, woah, slow down mate.

i really appreciate your enthusiasm about the movie (and the franchise) and I don't doubt you are some kind of insider with reliable sources, but you're mixing up facts with big, fat ass opinions.

Let's start with the production: Australia is a."meh" choice at best. It may be cheap and safe to work in kangaroo-land, safer than China and Hong Kong and Thailand for sure, but one of the key aspects of the MK lore is its eastern roots, aesthetic and mythology. Australia, at least in exteriors, doesn't add up to that one bit, unless they are to use their already low budget to build asian exteriors from the ground up.

Also, Wan may be a talented director, don't doubt that, but he is simply a producer for this movie. No director of Earthrealm loves to waste money. If he is financing the movie it's because he believes that, most likely, he will get back what he spent and something more.

The director only directed commercials in his career. A good director is the brain of a movie. Experience for sure helps directors at being good.

In 1995 Paul Anderson already had a couple of important films under his belt, if I am not mistaken.

Secondly, the cast. Cristopher Lambert was a major box office bait that helped the first movie to be succesful as it was. No one is asking for Hollywood's A-listers like Leo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Scarlett Johansson, etc and not even some B-listers (RD Jr, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth).

But you need at least one, single hollywood bait. I have no idea of who might accept any role in this film, but I am no James Wan or casting director either, so it's not my job.

The avtors' list you posted above, while technically correct, it is not "honest". Everyone of them who appeared on Marvel movies did it for a cameo. Lewis Tan in Deadpool 2 was a two scenes.joke, one of those involving his death.

The other asian guy was a Yakuza boss killed in less than a minute in Avengers Endgame.

None of the people you mentioned has ever starred in a.major role in a major hollywood movie. Even Mechad Brooks, who is the most recognizable of the cast, only appeared in supporting roles in so-so TV shows (Supergirl, True Blood).

Many of those actors accepted the role because this movie may be their breakthrough into Hollywood mainstains.

Basically, MK Legacy had a better cast with Carey Tagawa, Casper Van Dien, Brian Tee, Mark Dacascos and Michael Jay White. And it was a Machinima show released for free...

About the last sentence in the spoiler tag...That's your opinion, but without the support and the word of mouth of the most supportive MK fans, this movie is deemed to fail, with or without James Wan.

The simple fact that they haven't announced a Johnny Cage cast and haven't fully debunked the sad Cole Turner rumor, is indicative of how low quality and direction-less this movie is. Hope to be wrong, though.

What part of "reboot" have you missed? Keep an open mind. You will be bedazzled and amazed.

"Asian roots" doesn't always have to mean the buildings with rounded roofs. There is a wildernous in Asia. Recall Plate techtonics. Australia has ALOT of the same vegetation as Asia. Reason for that.

Boon lost the core MK fanatics long ago. It's a new era, a new generation of MK fans, specifically with DC. There are more of them than us. We will had to embrace or lose grace. Us vs them. You're either with us in this or stuck in the 70s-90s with them. The days of Mortal Kombat being a ripoff of Enter the Dragon (Roger & Ebert stated this in 1995) are long gone... at least for this film.

Responding to both your statement in why Wan chose this project and this: "That's your opinion, but without the support and the word of mouth of the most supportive MK fans, this movie is deemed to fail, with or without James Wan.":

In the film business... if a movie gets more $$ back than what was put into it... that's called a commercial success. So again... HE DOESN'T NEED WORD OF MOUTH FROM THE MOST LOYAL FANS. WELCOME TO HOLLYWOOD MATE - JAMES WAN > WORD OF MOUTH

Here in the states, Christopher Lambert was a nobody. Famous for Highlander ONLY IF you were a scifi/fantasy fan. Still is a nobody here unless you're a MK fan. Bridgette Wilson was well-known from both Adam Sandler (still one of Hollywood's biggest paid actors) and as Schwarzenegger's kickass daughter in Last Action Hero. Shitty film but people will eat Arnold Schwarzenegger's shit too no matter what he was in, back then anyway.

James Wan IS the biggest name attached. There is always room for cameos by big names if they must.

Cary Tagawa and the rest of Legacy's cast were popular but waxhed up in their own rights. I forgot all about Casper Van Dien since Startroopers. I watched Tagawa in alot of B action martial arts films in the 90s. Micheal J. White is only known to martial arts movie fans and he was too old to do Mortal Kombat right when he was in Legacy.

The only thing Legacy got right is it fueled the public's interest and ignited Warner Bros into making a Mortal Kombat film live action film. People keep talking how suckass it was except for fans newer to the MK franchise who didn't know what we knew.

And in response to your last sentence:

You are, in many ways, both right and wrong. You won't know until you see Mortal Kombat (2021) or Mortal Kombat (2023?)

speaking of legacy yeah they made liu kang into a joke who not even a choses or how about when thy killed of kuail liang off or did you like making raiden trapped in the asylum the only good story arc was the kitana arc

Dunno why you're acting so PR like this, but I have to wake you up about something: EVERY (read it with Gary Oldman's voice in Leon the professional) movie needs word of mouth in order to be successful. No exceptions.

Even MCU movies need good PR, advertising, promotion and fans' word of mouth.

MK reboot now more than any time else needs good word of mouth from the fans, old and new alike, James Wan or not.

Also, let's be honest, Wan is a good director, but alone is not going to sell a movie, especially if he is producer.

How can I trust a movie to be good if the director never directed a full feature film, when one of the most popular and loved characters is not even casted and when rumors about unnecessary original characters are stirred up in the internet?

The 1995 worked. Don't fix it if ain't broken. Just add gore to it and find good actors with a decent resume and filmography.

Christopher Lambert in 1995 was a great name in, 1995. And Paul Anderson was a decent director.

No matter the time or the ideas, if a movie lacks direction, casting and promotion (the latter being too early I know), it is deemed to fail, 1995 or,2019, James Wan or not.

Paul Anderson decent directer huh is this the same director huh is that same director that runied the re movie series by having his wife bigger roles then the game directors also the same director that ripped off RE with a orginal screenplay called the undead only changed some stuff to make it a RE movie

Oh... not to mention Paul Anderson only had one movie under his name before Mortal Kombat - Shopping - a British film no one here in the states heard of.

Paul didn't have James Wan on his side. Larry Kasanoff but not James Wan.

If you knew anything about this business you'd know a director is second to a producer. In other words, Simon may be the director by title but trust me, all the other producers and Exec Producers have a say during production.

ANY. DAMN. TIME.

So, especially with Kasanoff and Wan always there with him or just a phone call away, nothing is going to go wrong.

Like you said... Wan wouldn't have taken this project if he hadn't intended to make his money back.

It's a film already based on an existing well-established and commercially successful franchise. If it pisses off some of the most vocal obsessed, fanatics, "supportive fans," as you call, who cares. Can't please everyone. Every die-hard fan wants it this way or that way.

Don't know where've you been sincd MK9 when things changed completely but with MKX and MK11 changing the game, Moryal Kombat is stronger than ever.

Anything's better than Legacy.

He also made Event Horizon

I will say that this movie is in a little bit of trouble. You have casting way off the chart and characters aren't being cast in roles they fit with. On IMDB there is now an uncredited role called Audience Fight Scene. What in the world is going on with this film!?! Lewis Tan is not even been credited as anything. With the photos of businesses paying homage to Sindel and Cetrion, I'm wandering if this movie will be like the CastleVania 2 novel I read as a kid. In that novel a kid (gamer) gets sucked into the world of Simon Belmont and follows him on his adventure to kill Dracula. In other words...I'm wandering if Lewis Tan is telling us a story of MK or he is imagining the myths and legends passed down to him and we're watching those events unfold by him telling us his story. Right now, I'm very worried about this film and the direction it is heading.

from what i heard we seeing the universe of mortal kombat from his eyes it not like those resident evil flims where the main charachter wa he focus while the game charachters took a backseat everbosy will have a role of some or plus the story form i heard is more orgin stories but a different take the lore will still be here but might a little different

After reading a copy of an earlier draft of the script the ideas behind this film make me want to pass on it all together. It isn't the Mortal Kombat movie I'd want to or like to see. It isn't even based off of the story idea of any of the games so what's up with that? I was hoping more of a similar take of the story from either the first game or MK9 told in a fashion of the way Enter the Dragon was done.

Hopefully this draft I read is not what we'll be seeing. It does do some characters justice but others it turns them into wackos and one character, the most beloved and possibly trademarked character of all isn't even in the film and he's been in nearly every game and was in the original game!

In closing I want to say if this is the actual film we're seeing and this script is true, you will only see 5 characters of the main roster in the film! Technically 6 because one you'll see on a poster, but only 5? Keeping fingers crossed a lot of this crap has been completely redone because I'm not as excited now for this film as I was earlier on in development.

did you read the 16 draft or the 18 draft because from i heard the 18 draft is much better as for wanting a take one a regular adaption that fine but to me that pretty borning i want to new take on the mk universe as for johnny nobody is replacing him as for why he not in the movie he oculd fliming a shittity movie while this stuff going on keep in mind this movie is not about the tourmeant but set up everthing the torument

The version I read was very similar to a Resident Evil film version of Mortal Kombat. Lewis Tan's character is the main hero much like Alice was the main heroin in the Resident Evil film franchise. We are following him as he takes his journey to find a dragon medallion to enter and compete in the MK tournament to prove he is a good boxer. He is on the verge of eviction, his daughter is in the custody of his in-laws and his wife is deceased. The first MK fighter he meets is Jax. Jax mentions a lot of popular MK3 fighters were mentioned as being dead already in the beginning of the film like Nightwolf, Kabal and Stryker to name a few because they had been assassinated to get their medallions.

The story was interesting to read but it did not stay true to the MK lore that we all know. It borrows the title, a few small choice of popular characters and the dragon medallions from the games but it is a stand alone story that does not follow any story arch from any of the games.

Does this help determine which version I read without giving away too heavy of plot details? Sorry I don't know how to enter a spoiler.

okay you might of the 16 draft then the 18 draft from i understand is different like he not a boxer anymore also form what i heard he wont overshadow the other fighters as well but also the core concept form the 16 draft is there but much of lewsi characther was change

aslso yeah doesnt follow any story arch becuase they want this potianl universe to be it own thing

It sounds like the 2016 draft, although the 11/18 draft did keep Tan as a boxer, so that changed sometime after that date. What's the date on the cover page of the draft you have? Honestly, to make him an MMA fighter, all they had to do was change like a couple of words and BINGO he's no longer a boxer, just a MMA fighter. But to have added characters or refined roles, although in writing would be easy, it's not likely they did that from 11/18 to the newer draft.

The SPOILER TAG is right above the white box you type your message in. In the future if you can't find that tag use SPOILER in all caps.

That's good though. Don't get me wrong if this script was not an MK movie it wouldn't be too bad.

As far as this being its own universe I'm still not okay with that. For me I want to see the MK story be brought to the screen correctly. The story is there and can be told very effectively if done right. The first film did that okay with the exception of it not being violent, Sub-Zero dies at the hands of Liu Kang rather than Scorpion and Shang Tsung dies completely at the end of the film. It is sad when Hollywood gets games like Mortal Kombat that has a very powerful and effective story that a majority of the fans would want to watch come to life only to have them create their own thing.

Why don't they take a look at some of the older martial arts films of the past and see how those were developed and take the original story from 1, 2 and 3 or the new line from 9, 10 and 11 and tell us a trilogy of tales. My opening would be similar to the first MK movie except it would feature Goro and the Great Kung Lao fighting with Great Kung Lao loosing and then it would cut to the opening of Cage and Liu Kang's journey to the boat followed not too far behind by Kano. Read John's original comic and bring that to the screen. Now this sadly makes me even more un-excited for this film.

I don't have it with me at the moment for I'm at work but I can tell you it had numerous writers attached to the cover with one writer's last name being Oren Uzeil who of course wrote the Rebirth story. It must be the 2016 one then. There were at least 3 to 4 writers on the cover or so. If that doesn't help I'll look at it when I get home here soon and let you know.

those are great idea but im tired of seeing the same stuff being told over and over again im want something new and competly different and i get it and who know maybe this movie will star it owen universe to compete with marvel beccuase god of sick and tired of marvel movies anyay leave your opion here in this thread https://www.mortalkombatonline.com/t/media/mortal-kombat-2021-reboot-official-opinion-rant-thread/LwLo8s1Zn6YA

Yep. You have the 2016 script.

oh wow the 2016 script had that gladitor scence correct?

I do have the 2016 script. This would be a good stand alone movie if you could change the characters around a bit.

dont worry about the 2016 most of the stuff where changed in 2018 draft if not much better from i heard gorolives and this person read the new draft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhsQEdyUgpA&t=337s

The movie has been mived up to January from March. So, realistically, when are we supposed to see a trailer?

I'm guessing around May to July