Mortal Kombat Writer Talks About Original Reboot Script
Jonathan Barkan
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It’s been known for a while that Mortal Kombat is in the process of getting a new adaptation. The last we heard was that Simon McQuoid would be sitting in the director’s chair. Now, writer Oren Uziel has spoken with the folk over at Collider about the original script and what it featured. From the sound of it, the film was going to be rather epic in scope!
Uziel’s relationship with Mortal Kombat has been going on for a while. He was the scribe behind the the short film Mortal Kombat: Rebirth, which saw the creation of the Machinima online series “Mortal Kombat: Legacy”. Talking about that, Uziel explains, “I know [Kevin Tancharoen] 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.”
While Uziel’s script was the basis of the upcoming adaptation, it’s uncertain just how much remains. But what he explains sounds incredibly interesting! “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,” he explains.
As for now, we’ll just have to wait and see what comes next from this project!
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