I'm going to throw out a bit of speculation here, but this looks like ruins and mourning/brooding, like this is after the Shaolin Temple was slaughtered.
It would kinda make sense to have the temple attack happen before the tournament for an adaptation since adaptations tend to mix MK1 and 2 into a single event instead of repeating the tournament plot over again, and the attack is like the most famous thing that happens to Liu and Kung Lao in the first three games.

Maybe what Tancharoen meant about his version of Liu being different from what we expect was angry/bitter/vengeful since he's usually the peaceful enlightened guy?

I have that hoody :O

WTF kind of an ugly dragon is that?

Tekken's Jin Kazama on heroin?

My thoughts exactly, Blacksaibot.
I sure hope they know what they're doing this time...

I like the logo, and the look for Liu Kang.

That's easily possible and with that in mind, it's possible that the MK Logo hear is the OLD logo from the Shaolin's time of running MK. Also, I found these Tweet to Brian Tee and Brian Tee's reply

Same.

Here's the first look at Kung Lao's hat

Now we've got a Kung Lao teaser too! Check it out!

It definitely looks like a different take on Liu Kang. But I'm thinking it might be another case of him running away from the Shaolin like he did in the first movie, which I'm hoping is not the case. Maybe he's just angry that he's the one who has to fight in the tournament and give up his pacifism.

I like seeing the more modern clothes he's wearing though, and I like how they kept the red and black color-scheme so he's recognizable. I think it makes him look more street-smart and less innocent. This Liu Kang obviously has a better idea of how the world really works than his videogame counterpart. He's not the friendly, enlightened monk that we know from MK 2011; at least he's not yet.

But I do hope we see him throw that coat aside and put on a headband to kick some ass as the Liu Kang we all know.

EDIT: Sweetre15, you beat me to it!

Also KT's reply about the hat's blade

I really really like the idea of the blade being hidden. It makes the whole hat thing a little more realistic, and I think it gives Kung Lao the element of surprise.

I don't think it's intended as the series' logo itself, rather than merely the symbol of the tournament.

Seeing as how the series' logo and the Mortal Kombat Tournament insignia are one in the same (the series' logo, in effect, having been fashioned in the likeness of the Tournament insignia), this isn't exactly a valid explanation. Nevertheless, that logo is absolutely fucking hideous. It's like an inbred crocodile and a retarded snake had a baby, and this is the monstrosity that came to be. Why would you even bother altering a logo that has been a staple of the franchise since the beginning? Even "Annihilation" didn't stoop so low as to make such a brash and unnecessary change.

I don't know why this director insists on adding an "urban" overtone to the series. It's like he's trying to transform MK into a low-budget Tekken knockoff (Liu Kang/discount-Jin Kazama assuming a "gangsta" Shaolin guise, for example).

Given this guy's directorial history, I'm mildly astounded that there hasn't been a dance-off between anyone yet. The one thing that continues to baffle me is why Warner Bros./Netherrealm Studios is/are allowing this travesty to persist. *shakes head*

Even though I only quoted part of it, I'll address the whole thing anyway lol 1.You dont get what he's saying......He's saying that this isn't the look of the promotional logo for the show but it's how it's going to look in the tournament "in-universe 2. Well, only two characters really have any "urbanizing" of them so far in this series and that's Raiden and Kang from the looks of it. So I wouldnt say it's in the "whole series". 3. Regardless of a director's previous credentials, Common sense tells them not to turn everything they work on into something derivative of those works. That's like assuming Burton was going to make Batman into a Pee Wee Herman comedy because he directed Pee Wee's Big Adventure prior to that.

Eric Jacobus as Stryker with KTanch and the actor playing Cage: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A9jIQubCMAATfqg.jpg

That hat looks like it's from when Kung Lao and Raiden performed the fusion technique. Kung Raiden?

Looks like javier berdam from no country for old men lol.

Johnny Cage with a beard?
And he's dressed ike an idiot? What about the business suit?
Stryker with a beard?

OK, OK I got it...Ktanch and the rest of the creative crew just think that adding a beard make a character more "mature" and "realistic".

These two are NOT Johnny Cage and Stryker, oh God please, STOP this rape of the MK mythos...

Oh, God, Johnny Cage dressed like a idiot...LIKE A IDIOT, DAMMIT!

Ignoring the fact that I made that comment in jest, the comparison that you made doesn't even come close to being realistic. Tim Burton worked on and/or directed a number of successful films prior to "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" and "Batman", and all Kevin Tancharoen has to this point is a handful of box office failures.

This bloated William Hung lookalike insists on taking a shit all over everything that has made MK into the franchise that it is, so it's only fitting that one would assume that he'd be completely willing to insert some sort of ridiculous and inappropriate dance routine into the foray at some point. Liu Kang certainly looks ready to "bust a move", or more like he just "got served", what with the expression of constipation-related discomfort painted across his mug.

Don't feed the troll, kids.

1 financial successes or not, my point was that just like Burton showed that he can handle different types of material , KT has as well.

2. Keep reaching with robotic arms like you're doing right now.

That doesn't change the fact that, in my opinion, "MKLegacy" is as much a disgrace to the MK that I grew up with as "Annihilation" ever was. Tim Burton is a much more respected director and has been since the beginning of his directing career. Name one film that Kevin Tancharoen has directed that's been a successful box office hit or has even been critically-acclaimed. They are two distinctly dissimilar directors and their careers, aside from being involved in filmography, have literally nothing in common.

I don't even know what in Hell that second point is supposed to mean. That idiom is more akin to idiocy, to be perfectly blunt.

I also find it pretty discriminatory that Zentile, the epitome of societal irrelevance, ignorantly and inaptly labeled me as a "troll", yet whenever someone else states an opinion that is similar to or, for all intents and purposes, is in agreement with mine, I'm the one who's singled-out. I'll just go ahead and excuse your bigoted mindset as nothing more than rampant jealousy. Haters gonna hate.

1 The Burton comparison was only meant for the purpose of saying that a director doesn't make every film like one or two films they've done. I never compared him to Burton in any other way...so don't try to turn this to a pissin contest.

2. I said you're reaching with the whole claim that the characters look like they are ready to breakdance...In which case is the truth because this statement makes you look stupid.

Or maybe a faction logo? What, that's Liu Kang?!



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