Well, you can consider that a rousing 'Mission Accomplished!' for director Kevin Tancharoen.
Evidently unsatisfied with a career spent directing things like Fame and the Glee concert movie and a huge fan of the Mortal Kombat video game series, Tancharoen last year shot a short film that gave the franchise a dark and gritty new look in hopes of convincing the powers that be to let him make a feature. It got their attention but not enough to go full bore, so everyone involved signed up to create a ten part web series - Mortal Kombat Legacy - instead. Fifty million viewers later, Mortal Kombat is headed back to the big screen with Tancharoen at the helm.
The film is still in the development stages with no script yet in place but expect all of the key creative team from Mortal Kombat Legacy to return.
Evidently unsatisfied with a career spent directing things like Fame and the Glee concert movie and a huge fan of the Mortal Kombat video game series, Tancharoen last year shot a short film that gave the franchise a dark and gritty new look in hopes of convincing the powers that be to let him make a feature. It got their attention but not enough to go full bore, so everyone involved signed up to create a ten part web series - Mortal Kombat Legacy - instead. Fifty million viewers later, Mortal Kombat is headed back to the big screen with Tancharoen at the helm.
The film is still in the development stages with no script yet in place but expect all of the key creative team from Mortal Kombat Legacy to return.
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This is great news. i love Mortal Kombat and its goofy mish-mash mythology.
If votes and/or opinions are being at all considered, then I hereby cast my own for a continuation of the hardcore hard-"R" rated grittiness displayed to great effect in the MK Legacy short film. And please, bring back the amazing cast from the short and most of the web series (a better Shang Tsung is in order).
Robin Shou should return as Liu Kang.