What’s that? Chris Casamassa says filming starts in September this year? This isn’t the first time rumors like this have cropped up for this film, no doubt. Back in May 2004, we published an article that cited Chris emailing a now defunct Mortal Kombat fan website of the ‘possibility of MK3 starting filming in 2004, possibly’. Right-o, Chris.
However one interesting dynamic has come into the picture for this vaporware of a film. Rumors have long plagued this cultish and strange franchise for over 10 year, and now a proper stir has come into the equation that can key us to what direction things might actually been going. In early July Midway game filed bankruptcy proceedings and speculation of the franchise was in full twirl, for but the games and the movies.
Warner Bros. comes along and snags up the shambles of Midway (or, atleast its very few marketable assetslike MK) for 33 million. In perspective, the rights to the classic game franchise Tomb Raider was bought by Square Enix for 120 million. I don’t ever believe the TR franchise has been relevant to the industry or to gamers, past its dominant first release on the PC over a decade ago.
Interestingly enough, Warner Bros is also a movie production company. In fact they tend to make better movies than games (Lego Batman, F.E.A.R. 2). To add more mixture to the stew brewing, their own subsidiary New Line happen to have produced the two MK movies from the 90s, way back when.
Though it’s been painfully obvious to fans around the world that Threshold has done nothing with its part of ownership of the MK franchise, but that doesn’t stop them from suing everybody and wanting a piece of the pie. The Mortal Kombat Online News Feed, a network of which this site is proudly apart of, has a great article on the details of Threshold’s legal action amidst the buyout of Midways. Lawrence “D-Bag” Kasanoff claims on making the aliases of Liu Kang, Scorpion and Sonya Blade into recognizable named, and speculates there’s been 4 billion in revenue over the years. Keep hittin’ that purple stuff, Larry.
Aside from that debacle, the buyout went through and we are looking at new owners of the MK license. What will the next 10 years of rumors entail?
