Oh boy can't wait how this goes... I'm keeping low expectations until the trailer comes out. Not very confident of the choice of the writers.

I like Wan and what he's done thus far with his career. If he's involved, it'll definitely be dark and I think that's a good thing given where the franchise has gone as of late.

Will stay skeptical but optimistic.

Different directors and producers have been attached the the idea of a follow up movie for as long as I can remember. This usually doesn't ever mean anything in terms of getting the greenlight from a distributor, especially if that distributor happens to be New Line Cinema (didn't even know they still are around).

I just don't think enough people care anymore for it to really matter. The martial arts film boom that was big several years ago is over and it's been close to 18 years since Annihilation.

"Sin City" was a highly successful surprise hit. People were clamoring for more movies. It took 9 years for "A Dame to Kill For" to hit the big screen and is considered a pretty big box office failure (despite comic based movies still being fairly popular).

If you don't stay in people's minds, interest wanes and you're forgotten. Movies based on video games are rarely good nor are they typically highly regarded/reviewed. I just don't see a movie based on video game revitalizing the currently dead martial arts film genre.

I just hope the casting is better, and the plot isn't focused on Kang, SOnya,Kitana only with thebarely any screen time for Sub-Zero, Scorpion etc.

Also dont cast some 20 year old k pop model to play sub-Zero ffs. Scott Adkins would be a great choice to play him.

This Is A 5th Time We All Heard Of A New Mortal Kombat Movie A It Has All Fallen Through Like A Fissure During An Earthquake. I Hope For The Hearts Of All The Mortal Kombat Of This Skipping Record!

Well I'm glad to see an Asian man with a well received film career will be producing the reboot, but I don't like what the rest of the article says. Mortal Kombat should contain an ensemble cast. It shouldn't just focus on one male protagonist! Who would that be anyway??? Liu Kang or the original Kung Lao? That's why I'm feeling skeptical for now.

If James Wan is not directing I hope someone with a well received directorial record will helm it. Like Zack Snyder or Joon Ho Bong.

Please resurrect Stanley Kubrick and make him do the movie!

"plot remains tangentially related to the fiction of the hugely successful video game series, centering around a "seemingly harmless guy" who discovers his hidden powers, and uses them to enter the tournament. The film has reportedly been described by the studio as "a departure from the mythology"

Sounds boring. Why not just do the first three games?

If one medium can make a good Mortal Kombat, I'd have to go with the television series medium. MK1 all the way to Armageddon after hereafter. You have enough time to develop characters and add new scenes to fill in plotholes that were never closed in the video game franchise instead of cramming it into one movie while staying true to the original game lore. Something like an ANIMATED HBO series like Todd McFarlane's Spawn back in the 1990s.

Mixed feelings on it.

The news is good. Wan sounds good. Plot is questionable. History of this sort of thing popping up is a huge negative. (tancheroen did pretty ok, i enjoyed it overall)

What would be interesting is if they made this film about Takeda's MKX story. I could accept something like that. I don't want another Lui Kang lineage movie. Just the same, following the Cage's around seems questionable because their thing is kind of comical.

A Sub-Zero Scorpion thing could be interesting, but I think a more youthful shift is in order. One that has enough ties to the old stuff to give the history, and deviate in a more natural progression.

I dunno....mixed feelings on it.

This just sounds.. awful.

The plot does sound awful. Between this movie being in development hell since 2001 and after seeing video game adaptation movies flop time and time again, I would rather this movie not get made. I don't trust Wan, nor the writers to get this movie right.

This has been stuck in development hell for nearly eighteen years for a reason, folks.

I hear it's going to be called Domination.

Fans are right to temper expectations, but there are a few simple things that definitively separate this news from the past couple of decades:

- In 2010 the Mortal Kombat IP changed owners (to New Line parent WB).
- This iteration has been in various stages of active production in that time.
- MK2011 and MKX games have given MK clear numeric value.
- James Wan is fast becoming an 'it' name. The closest MK has come to that level of 'it' talent is 20 years ago.
- All indications have been they aren't aiming for big budget blockbuster.

Im happy he's asian. just what NRS needs now, 1 or 2 asian dudes that love MK. But unfortunatly they remove the mythologies part.

Malaysian born, raised in Australia. Lets not get too excited. It's not like they got a Shaolin monk in. His insights may not be entirely unique.

How about a Mortal Kombat movie instead?

I didnt knew, thanks for that info. ill wait it up.

BC it was listed 12 years ago on IMDB?

Warner Bros should do a Mortal Kombat writers room for the movie.

Yesterday Steven DeKnight, former showrunner on Daredevil and current member of Paramount’s Transformers writer’s room, told us about the arrival of the Punisher to the second season of Daredevil. Today he has talked to other outlets about the Transformers project, and his comments help us understand who’s doing what (such as Jeff Pinkner writing Transformers 5 with Akiva Goldsman) and how the whole system is laid out.

DeKnight is part of the writer’s room along with Pinkner, Zak Penn, Robert Kirkman, Art Marcum, Matt Holloway, Andrew Barrer, Gabrial Ferrari, Christina Hodson, Lindsey Beer, Ken Nolan, and Geneva Robertson-Dworet.

That “brain trust” reports to Goldsman, and producers Michael Bay, Steven Spielberg, and Lorezo di Bonaventura. The idea is to produce not just “core” Transformers sequels, but also spin-offs, prequels, and possibly even animated films as part of a “Transformers Cinematic Universe.”

DeKnight spoke to IGN about the system at Paramount:

It’s that wonderful thing where features are now taking a page from television and getting people together to really try and plan things out. It was a wonderful experience. Akiva Goldsman was fantastic and Jeff Pinkner, who’s co-writing the fifth [Transformers] movie with him, was phenomenal. Zak Penn... It was just a room full of brilliant, funny, amazing people. And we spent two and a half weeks in physically the best writers room I’ve ever seen in my life. Paramount pulled out all the stops. It was phenomenal! We laughed and joked and told stories and plotted out...

In other words, most of the big work of the brain trust has been done, and Paramount has a plan in place for a whole set of films. What are they? Good question. Not all the films conceptualized by that group will be made, so we’ll have to wait for details on the ones that do get the green light.

I can’t say what we plotted out, but it was all very exciting and in the next few months we’ll see what moves forward and what doesn’t move forward. But it was a fantastic experience. One of the best experiences of that was when Steven Spielberg popped by one afternoon to just sit and talk and hear what we were working on. Everybody was about to throw up, they were so excited.

http://www.slashfilm.com/transformers-5-writers/

just get this movie goin already!

we don't just want it....we need it.

man, i love the first movie so much.....really seemed like an awesome throw-back to older martial arts movies.

just get the guy from the Raid to do it.

please!!!!!!!!

Yeah.