1995’s Mortal Kombat has the backhanded distinction of being the best adaptation of a video game ever committed to film. Warcraft may have made more money, but would you rather watch Johnny Cage snark, or watch whoever Travis Fimmel was supposed to be take meetings? That said, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation performed a brutality on the idea of the movies becoming a franchise. But everything old is new again, and Christopher Lambert claims Hollywood is ready for another round, with a particularly bizarre idea.
How bizarre? Lambert is claiming our heroes will now be, literally, punching each other so hard they teleport:
“We are going to be travelling through time but in a very special way. So imagine characters having a battle in the middle of London and then whoosh, you smash through a window and find yourself on the hood of a New York cab.”
That sounds a bit like Mortal Kombat: Inception, but really, this is a movie about a spear-hucking zombie hunting down a human fridge and not letting people with robot parts or the dictator of an alternate dimension inspired entirely by Iron Maiden album covers get in his way. Why not let people punch each other so hard they travel through time?
And to be fair, this isn’t without precedent in the games. When the games were rebooted in 2011, the central conceit of the plot was that Raiden went back in time to rewrite the history of the franchise, hopping around the timeline. That said, though, we suspect the biggest roadblock will be the fact that it’s Mortal Kombat. Then again, if emoji can get a movie, maybe we’re selling the Outworld crew short.
(via Loaded)
