Mortal Kombat Rebooted

Rumors suggest the franchise fatality wasn't fatal.

by Christopher Monfette

January 25, 2010 - If we had a quarter for every quarter we'd dropped into a Mortal Kombat arcade machine back in the day, we'd probably have broken even to the tune of hundreds upon hundreds of dollars. Thankfully, however, we only had to pony up about seven bucks to see the wonderfully campy and technically awful big-screen movie adaptation that was released in 1995. And we still think that somebody owes us our money back for the sequel.

Our friends over at Bloody-Disgusting are reporting that Warner Bros. is currently in talks with writer Oren Uziel to pen a reboot of the Mortal Kombat theatrical experience. Industry enthusiasts might remember Uziel's name from the 2009 Black List – a compendium of the year's best unproduced scripts – on which he was credited for a screenplay called Shimmer Lake.

We join our colleagues in praying that Warner Bros. gives us a full-on, big-budget, hard-R bloodbath complete with gory and eviscerating fatalities. Stay tuned to IGN Movies for more as the project develops.


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