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FINISH HIM: Mortal Kombat Is Heading Back To The Big Screen!

The title says it all!

This HUGE piece of news was announced earlier today. According to the Hollywood Reporter, New Line is hiring the filmmakers of the popular Mortal Kombat digital series, made earlier this year by corporate bling Warner Bros. Digital Distribution, to take on a new adaptation of the clasc 1990s fighting game.



Kevin Tancharoen will be directing the new film. Tancharoen, who is probably best known for being the choreographer for Madonna and Britney Spears, was responble for directing the 2009 remake of Fame and more recently the Glee concert movie.

The choreographer/director tried to pitch a movie based on the video game earlier in the year when he released the short film Mortal Kombat: Rebirth. Being a huge fan of the video game (and knowing Hollywood wouldn't give him a shot at the title), he enlisted Oren Uziel to write the short and hired actors such as Michael Jai White and Jeri Ryan.

The short as you may recall landed on YouTube and was a HUGE success - tallying up an incredible 10 million views, and although no movie deal materialized, he was asked to direct the 10-episode web series, which debuted on the Tube this past April. To date the series has attracted over 50 million views!

As a result, Warners and New Line execs thought it was time to try to revit a big-screen effort. Uziel will be returning to write the new movie, which is still in the early development stages. No actors have been attached nor will the new story will not serve as an extenon of the game or digital series.

Source: the Hollywood Reporter
Anonymous Thursday 9/29/2011 at 10:44 PM | 83497
It's about damn time.
syko2k2 Thursday 9/29/2011 at 10:59 PM | 83499
no shit , finally. i can not wait for this.
cainn marko Thursday 9/29/2011 at 11:51 PM | 83508