GET OVER HERE! The Mortal Kombat movie reboot has found its director!

Fingers crossed we actually get a GOOD MK movie.

^I've never seen an MK movie, what's it like?

Cheep budget, with some connections to the games in the first one.

The second one is pretty much the same but worse in every way.

Yeah, the only attempts at a decent MK movie have been severely lackluster. I'm hoping with James Wan as producer, they focus on a serious, dark tone. I mean, Mortal Kombat is anything but lighthearted. I too and praying for a decent film this time.

^If those two MK films had lighthearted moods, I may not watch this one

I think it was just a case of people not really knowing how to move a game to a movie. I think both are pg-13 something that a mortal kombat movie should never be, and they basically took the characters looks in the first one, some bits of the story, and just tried tried to work with it, I can somewhat forgive the first, as an almost decent movie, but the second is just trash pretty much.

Exactly. I don't think anyone really took the project seriously with the first one. Look at the upcoming Assassin's Creed film adaptation - looks unreal! If Assassin's Creed can generate that kind of quality, surely Mortal Kombat can. The lore alone is extremely rich, with so much source material to draw from. 

I would actually love for them to create a series of anthology films the way Star Wars is doing. The first one, this reboot could focus on the conflict between the Lin Kuei clan and the Shirai Ryu, which ultimately led to the classic Scorpion vs. Sub-Zero feud. I'd love to see that.

I should add I'm a bit of an MK fanatic. Here's a pic of me from this past year's Toronto Fan Expo (essentially Canada's Comic-Con):

^lol

Yeah, so my expectations for this film are already pretty high. Haha

^Yep.  xD

At base at least for the first movie it should be easy to follow the story from the first game. Hell just watch the opening to MK Shaolin Monks.

I think it's later on that difficulties could arise storywise, with it getting to convoluted with characters and other realms.

It could, but I mean if the games can follow a coherent storyline why can't films? 

The first film should and likely will focus on Liu Kang, Kung Lao and Johnny Cage in the first Mortal Kombat tournament. That way the concepts are explained and the main characters are introduced.