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Could we get an R-Rated Mortal Kombat movie?

May 23rd, 2017 by Marc Comments

Could we possibly get an R-rated Mortal Kombat movie? If the reboot that’s been kicking around Hollywood for a few years resembles anything like the original script, then there’s a good chance we just might.

In an interview with Collider screenwriter Oren Uziel sat down to discuss his forthcoming directorial debut Shimmer Lake, when talk soon turned to the Mortal Kombat reboot, and the fact Uziel was the first screenwriter tapped to write the film after writing the short film Mortal Kombat: Rebirth.

If you haven’t seen it you may want to check it out (below).

Fan reaction to Rebirth spawned the digital series, which got Hollywood considering the video game property for the big screen again:

“I ended up writing a short for him that he shot and it became kind of a big thing, and I know he used that to convince Machinima to make the digital series which I didn’t have anything to do with, and then after a couple years of that New Line came onboard to actually make a feature version again. And it was at that point that Kevin called and New Line called and said, ‘Hey, you were there at at the beginning, do you wanna come back?’ I said, ‘Sure’, so I wrote them a feature that has been the basis of what the Mortal Kombat movie will be, but it’s been kicking around for a little while now.

“I know James Wan came on to produce, so that to me was a good sign that maybe things were heating up again, but beyond that I really don’t know the specifics.”

The interesting tidbit though is when Uziel starts to describe the movie he wrote for New Line:

“Well, and again I don’t know what remains of this, but I know that it was going to be—it’s almost like if you took The Avengers, or if you took a storyline like that and set it in a sort of hard-R, over-the-top violence and hard-edged world of Mortal Kombat. It was a little bit like that, it was a little bit like a Wanted-type story that brought together a bunch of these characters and just pulled zero punches, and had a tone that was still fun but very dark.”

Though we really don’t know how much of his original vision will remain intact once the film actually starts shooting, it sounds like a movie that would have finally done the franchise justice. That’s a movie that I for one, want to see.

Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….