I will say that this guy looks the part of Duke. That much is a good thing.
Mario Goes Hollywood: A Collaborative Timeline
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It's a risk given that he'd be 25 at the earliest for filming, plus he hasn't had any major acting roles yet, but I feel like with the right director, we can get him rolling.
That's what people said about making a film based on Clock Tower. So, maybe this can work.
What? I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING!!!
Now being serious, with a good script John have enough snark for the Duke himself but yeah he would be very on the young side, nothing can't be solved if the movie is the Duke origin history(or one of those anyway,
) how come from rookie to the snarky musclebound badass we all love
-The Casting Director after young John Cena's screen test.
At this point, the only major studio that hasn't made a game movie ittl is MGM and the otl bankruptcy proceedings are only two years away. Can they distribute Duke?
Well, MGM would need a big hit to at least come out okay in recent times, and what better way to do that than to adapt a video game that no one else considered?
-The Casting Director after young John Cena's screen test.
At this point, the only major studio that hasn't made a game movie ittl is MGM and the otl bankruptcy proceedings are only two years away. Can they distribute Duke?
Mortal Kombat: Devastation
Well it has been too long, but school is finally done for the term and I can get back into this story. So here it is: MORTAL KOMBAT 3: DEVESTATION OF THE FALLEN GOD!
As for the film itself, director Paul Anderson was at his limit. He wanted to return to writing his films again but executive producer Lawrence Kasanoff would refuse his scripts for each film. He was prepared to walk off the project in early 2000, but current CEO Robert Shayne would intervene to keep him on the project by signing a check around $15 million to make the film under these conditions. Anderson would refuse the payoff and leave in March with only about 10 minutes of the film shot and sent to print. To fill the hole, Juan Carlos Sato and Jack Soulder; the showrunners behind the HBO spinoff, Mortal Kombat: Chronicles would be given the task filming as directors.
As for the writing staff, John Tobias once again took more of an editorial role for this film as at the time he was in charge of the development staff behind the game that would be coming out alongside the movie, Mythologies: The Rise of Outworld. This game would see players take the role of Shao Zeung, guardian god of Outworld during the reign of Onaga the Dragon King, the campaign against the realms of Tarkata; Zaterra; and Edenia, and the repelling of Khaosrealm. The game would be released as a launch title for the Giga Nintendo Entertainment System, followed by a release to the PS2 and Sega Neptune in December.
Narrator (Kevin Michael Richardson): Five years has passed since Shao Khan’s invasion of Earthrealm and neither realm shows any sign of victory.
*The scene shifts to a battlefield where modern day soldiers open fire on a horde of Hellbeasts. Only ten of these creatures fall to the gunfire before the horde crashes and gores the first wave of soldiers on their horns. The next scene sees a conclave of Saurians fighting off Centaurs with their acid spray. Then, footage from Chronicles is shown with Kurtis Stryker and Kabal are fighting against a red kunoichi throwing spikes of blood made from their fallen squad mates. *
Narrator: The fools don’t even realize that their folly strengthens a greater foe.
*The next scene shows a dark portal opening from the ground of the sky portal. A geyser of green energy bursts from the portal with a chorus of screams. At the end of these screams, Quan Chi (played by Tony Jaa) rises from the portal with a now zombified Sindel, a black ninja with burning green eyes, and a dark green ogre creature wrapped in chains. *
Narrator: “If both sides do not put their differences aside, all realms will suffer a fate worse than death itself.”
MORTAL KOMBAT: DEVESTATION OF THE ELDER GOD
COMING NOVEMBER 14th, 2001.
The film opens within a desolate red valley as three parademons pull on the limbs of a Tarkatan. The tarkatan’s blades were not attached to its body, as one is currently impaled through the head of a fourth parademon while the other is laid on the ground. We hear the body finally tears in two as we begin to zoom onto a cathedral made of bones.
Within the temple, Quan Chi stands in front of an altar as a vein of green energy spills out of his body into the altar. The vein stops flowing and Quan Chi collapses to his knees. After heavy breathing, he looks to a pair of stone doors glowing green with the same energy. This glow however, only goes up about 9/10 of the width of the doors. He smiles at his handywork because he knows he’s almost ready to open the seal of Shinnok, the fallen elder god. Together he will bring all realms into the sweet embrace of death.
???: Quan Chi.
Quan looks up to see a shadow approach him alongside a dark green ogre wrapped in chains. The shadow is known as Noob Saibot, a wraith and former assaassin of the Lin-Kuei clan.
Noob Saibot: “I have brought the leader of the Oni to you. How goes the progress on bringing down Khaosrealm?
Quan Chi: “Patience Saibot, the realm will fall in due time. Earthrealm and Outworld will be the next to fall.”
Moloch roars at both of them and charges at Quan Chi. He promptly shoots a skull ball at the Oni, stabs him with two meat hooks, and chants an incantation that pacifies him. Moloch stands back up with a dead faced look in his eyes. He immediately kneels to the two and Quan Chi smiles.
Quan Chi: “Take Moloch back to his people and send them to the portal, it's time for Queen Sheeva to stop being a thorn in my plans.”
The title then begins with the Mortal Kombat theme playing along with scenes from the first two movies and the chronicles before the title finally comes together.
Sub Zero:
“Finish it.”
Stryker nods and promptly reloads with a new clip. He puts one right between the eyes of the hellbeast.
Stryker:
“What took you so long, Grandmaster?”
Sub-Zero:
“You of all people should understand that preparing for battle takes time, Lieutenant Stryker. These incursions from the Netherworld are not the only threat we have to remain vigilant about.”
Stryker:
“I know, but look at what happened to my men.”
He points over to his squadron and of the 50 men we saw with Stryker, only 15 were still standing. The other 35 were either wounded or dead. Sub-Zero says a command to his men. They gather the dead into a mass pile, and throw an incendiary grenade into the pile. Stryker scowls at the practice but knows its necessary. Every dead man whose body is left somewhat intact can be reanimated as one of Quan-Chi's slaves. He salutes to the pile and then turns around toward the entrance of the shrine.
Once in the shrine, he turns on a flashlight and points it toward a wall. On the wall are murals of several people walking toward the shrine and making a prayer to the Haokah. The next picture shows a blue light shot out from the shrine and engrossed the people. Once they walked out of the shrine, they began shooting elemental attacks from their hands, engrossing their body with the same elements, and showing super human feats. The final part of the mural saw these warriors fighting along with a large man covered in cyan energy against a horned red and black demon.
Stryker:
“I need to show this to Grandmaster Kang and Princess Kitana. This could help us bring the fight to Quan-Chi much sooner.”
He takes a picture of the mural and turns to leave the area only to dodge a missile. He is promptly punched through the smoke. After shaking his head, he sees a figure coming through the smoke.
???: “Earthrealm operative detected. Proceed to execute capture protocol.”
The robots red plates then transform to yellow while the white plates turn black. Once done, he shoots a net at Stryker. Stryker dodges the net and pulls out his handgun. The bullets ricochet off the armor plates but one bullet strikes the eye. It shuts down the eye and forces the robot back a bit. Stryker pulls his shock baton out and swings for the head. The robot ducks, hits Stryker with an uppercut, and then teleports over to where he will land. He opens up his arm to create a buzzsaw. His attack is stopped by Sub-Zero, who creates an ice slide for Stryker to slide out of the shrine.
Robot: “Additional Assailant identified. Kuai-Liang, renegade member. You shall be retaken for processing and conversion.”
He hits a series of buttons on his arms and three more robots appear. One has the red plating, the second has an ice-blue plating, and the final has a grey plating. Sub-Zero plants his feet and moves into a fighting stance. The four robots surround him with capturing tools in one arm and dismemberment tools in the other. Sub-Zero promptly flips out of the ambush with an ice clone, sweeps the leg of the blue robot, dodges a swipe from the grey robots’ pulse axe, only to get caught by an explosion from the red robots’ missile. The yellow robot follows up with a bomb to the face which sends Sub-Zero crashing into the shrine itself. The robots surround him and shoot an electric net that shocks him unconscious. But as the reach for their downed renegade, the shrine glows white, overloads the robots, and promptly teleports Sub-Zero away.
Meanwhile in Outworld...
We join Princess Kitana and her handmaiden Jade in the former arena of Shao Khan. The two were allowed to enter here by decree of the Shokan queen, Sheeva (voiced by Vanessa Marshall). Their purpose, to hand out food and supplies from Earthrealm. Sheeva needs the help of the Earthrealmers to put down the final threat to her rule: the Centaurians and their leader Motaro. In return for the help of their champion, Grandmaster Liu Kang; Sheeva would help the Earthrealmers for their assault on the Netherrealm. But their humanitarian efforts would be stopped cold by a man with glowing green eyes. But the man doesn’t attack anyone, instead he grabs Kitana by the shoulder and speaks:
???: “You have a higher purpose than the Shokan, little kit.”
Kitana recoils in shock as she knows that only person has ever called her little kit: her father.
Kitana: “Who are you?”
???: “Someone with a higher purpose and someone who is being used against their will.”
The man runs off into the crowd and Kitana is shocked at this revelation.
Back in Earthrealm...
Stryker and his men report into the leader of the Outerrealm defense task force: General Jackson Briggs over their last mission. He reports on the ambush by the Lin-Kuei splinter group Saibou, the murals within the shrine, and the sudden disappearance by Grandmaster Sub-Zero. Jax fears that all of this happening is another strike by Quan-Chi due to the fact that no one within their ranks knows how to open a portal into the Netherrealm. He dismisses Stryker and then heads downstairs into an underground lab. It is here that a portal into other realms is being built. This project was helped along thanks to the remnants of Shao Khan’s shadow priests and monitored by Sonya Blade’s squadron. The two volunteer for the next test of the portal but upon activation the portal changes from green to white.
Back with Liu Kang, he is currently meeting with Sheeva’s trusted general, Kintaro (played by Rhassan Orange). The two are looking for a staging area for their assault on Motaro’s main fortress: the living forest along with finding a portal into the Netherrealm. Kang feared that this would be a difficult negotiation due to the fact that Kintaro learned how to fight underneath Goro, but he finds that the tiger striped shokan is a consummate professional. The plan is a pincer attack on the two paths within the forest. Liu Kang will lead the assault on the northern end to cause a panic within Motaro’s forces while his forces will attack the southern entrance. As a liason between both sides, Kabal provides the Shokan and the Shaolin monks with state-of-the-art helicopters to move into position. But as the forces move into position, a green portal opens in front of the advancing soldiers.
Goro grabs a monk and promptly rips him in half. He throws the top half of their comrade at the squadron only for one of the shokan soldiers to swat the half out of the way. This shokan promptly charges Goro only catch him in a bear hug using his bottom arms and begins punching with the top set. Goro only stops when he is struck by a fireball from Liu Kang. Goro roars and charges towards the squad of soldiers, only for Liu to follow up with a flying kick.
Liu Kang:
Continue with the plan, I’ll keep him busy.
Kang ties a headband onto his head and takes a fighting stance against the zombified shokan. Goro stares in response and charges towards the soldiers. Liu Kang shoots another fireball but it doesn’t stop Goro once it connects. Kang promptly kicks Goro in the shin and this causes the shokan to trip and land face first. Liu Kang follows up with a front flip, landing his feet directly on Goro’s head. He moves back to follow up with another kick to the head only for Goro to grab his foot and slam him into the ground multiple times. He throws Kang into the air and connects with a double fisted uppercut. The grandmaster flips backward into the ground, battered and defeated. As Goro moves forward to capture his opponent, a white light blinds him and teleports Liu Kang away.
Liu-Kang:
“Lord Raiden? Was this your past?”
A voice booms into their mind, body, and souls.
???:
“FOLLOW THE STATUES!”
Sub-Zero:
“Who are you and why have we been brought here?”
???:
“FOLLOW THE STATUES!”
Meanwhile in another pillar filled room, Sonya Blade and Jackson Briggs begin walking out in an attempt to get their equipment to work.
Jax:
“No signal for the portal tubes here either Sonya.”
Sonya:
“We need to keep trying Jax. Every minute we spend here not finding a way back allows Quan Chi another attempt to raid our realm and our people.”
???:
“FOLLOW THE STATUES!”
Jax:
“You listen here, this better be a way back to our realm. Otherwise, we’ll find our own way out!”
???:
“ALL WILL BE REVEALED WHEN YOU FOLLOW THE STATUES!”
The two begin to follow the statues and see the same murals that Liu-Kang and Sub-Zero see. After some time, the four earthrrealmers reach a gazebo.
Liu-Kang: “Major Briggs, Lieutenant Blade. Do you have any idea where we are?”
Sonya:” No idea, but we followed the voices for a way to get back to Earthrealm. But what of the offensive on the Shokans.”
Liu-Kang: “I ended up with a fight against Goro when the offensive began, so hopefully its still ongoing.”
Jax: “And why are you here Sub-Zero?”
Sub-Zero: “I was fighting off a group of cyborgs to save your operative.”
???: “If you are done catching up, then it's time for me to explain this summon.”
A crack of lightning streaks through the sky behind him only to wrap around and slam into the center of the hall. When the lightning subsides, Lord Raiden stands up in all of his glory but with his body covered in a blue aura.
Liu-Kang: “Lord Raiden, you are the one who summoned us here?”
Raiden: “I am merely just a messenger for those even higher than me. You all have questions about your realm?”
Jax: “No, we need to get back so we can win this war against the Netherrealm.”
Raiden:” So quick to anger you mortals are, this summon is about the war against the Netherrealm.”
Raiden explains that eons ago, a group of powerful gods came together to banish their creator, the one being. They did so by using the six kamidogu to remove his soul, the closest thing to death that a god can ever feel. The leader of that group was known as Shinnok, but 2000 years ago he began a campaign against gods and mortals alike to bring about death. Raiden was the one who fought Shinnok with the help of a chosen few from each of the realms and this war led to the separation between earthrealm, outworld, edenia, seido, and ideia. While Shinnok was not killed, he was drained of most of his power and banished to the Netherrealm for eternal torment. This should have been the end of it but now that he’s free; nothing will stop him from killing us and all of your realm’s populace. You must stop him.
Liu Kang:
“But how can we kill a god. We don’t even know where the Kamidogu are?”
Raiden:
“It is in a vault within the sky temple. Our vessel will meet you there to show you the way.”
The four are about to be teleported back to Earthrealm only for a group of bones to spike out of the ground. This group opens a portal from which Quan-Chi, Noob Saibot, and a zombified Shao Khan. The four mortals take fighting positions.
Back with Kitana...
After that strange meeting, Kitana returned to her chambers to reflect on what happened up to this point. What could be the higher purpose that the man could mean, and why did he call her little kit? The last time she saw her actual father was when Shao Khan forced her to execute him as a test of loyalty. Kitana curled into a ball and began to cry as she remembered the horrible day her realm was taken by Outworld. The grief was so much that she was only broken out of it when she was grabbed by the throat by a familiar white weave of hair. She was immediately pulled backwards to the floor to see her assailant.
Sindel:
“You are pathetic and weak, girl. But in death, you will serve a higher purpose!”
SIndel screams a sonic blast at the ground, causing Kitana to fall into the catacombs. She is promptly stopped from falling by Sindel’s hair, but it’s wrapped around her neck in a hangman’s noose. Just as she begins to lose consciousness, the noose is loosened as SIndel falls into the same hole as Kitana. Kitana finds herself in the arms of Jade while SIndel is found trying to pull herself off of a stalactite impaled in her gut. The two leave Sindel to explore the catacombs and realizes that much of the ruins within are of Edenians, not Outworld’s. The two eventually find a crypt with a sarcophagus.
Jade:
“Could this be where the royalty of Edenia were interred? I assumed Shao Khan just devoured their souls and then disposed of the bodies with the Tarkatans.”
Jade proceeds to rub some of the dust of the sarcophagus to find a message inscribed: “Tomb raiders beware, the God’s tools are not playthings.”
Jade: “The God’s tools?”
Jade looks around to find Kitana and finds another tunnel that seems to head upward. She calls out Kitana’s name and gets a response at the top of the tunnel’s staircase. Just as she reaches the top a pair of sharp objects fly right by her head
It is Melina but what horrifies Jade isn’t the fact that she has her trademark Sais, but that she’s missing her bottom jaw. The clone charged while Jade pulls out her bo staff and took a fighting position. As the two fight, Kitana separates the two with her fans. The two flee back to the catacombs only to find Sindel with a hole through her stomach and her eyes glowing with green energy.
Back with the elder gods...
Liu Kang and Sonya are back-to-back with each other as Noob Saibot and a shadow clone advances on them. Jax and Sub-Zero have managed to kick Shao Khan off the platform only for Quan Chi to summon him right back. The former emperor promptly shoulders tackles Jax to the ground, swats Sub-Zero away with a sledgehammer strike, and finally impales Jax with an energy spear. Sonya screams in rage and charges Quan Chi. The sorcerer smiles but quickly frowns as he is yanked back by a familiar kunai.
Scorpion: “GET OVER HERE!”
Scorpion follows up with an uppercut to knock Quan Chi down and promptly begins punching the sorcerer's face in.
Quan Chi: “Scorpion, stop. I allowed you to...”
Scorpion: “MY NAME IS HANZO HAZASHI, WARRIOR OF THE SHIRAI RYU! MY WIFE AND MY SON WERE INNOCENT CIVILIANS AND YOU KILLED THEM!”
The blows continued to rain upon them and as Noob and Shao managed to pull him off, it only led to them being set on fire. As he moved back to the subject of his rage, Quan Chi quickly teleported away along with his minions. Scorpion screams in rage and teleports back to the Netherrealm. Sonya cradles Jax in her arms.
Sonya:
“Jax, hold on. We’ll get you back home. Just hold on.”
Raiden walks toward Jax and begins healing him with his lightning. The wound closes and this allow Jax to begin breathing.
Raiden:
“Know this Jackson Briggs, this healing is only temporary. You must hurry to the Sky Temple and claim the Kamidogu of Earthrealm.” He points to Liu Kang and Sub-Zero “As for the rest of you, rally your forces to begin the assault on the Netherrealm.”
A bolt of lightning teleports them back to where they need to be.
Back with Kitana...
Kitana once again finds herself on the backfoot as a now armless Sindel shouts causing stalactites to fall around the crypt. Jade stops the screaming by smashing her staff into Sindel’s throat. She follows up by smashing Sindel in the stomach, an upward swipe to the chin, and a sweep of the legs. Jade prepares to follow up with a stomp through the head only to be run through the gut by Mileena. Kitana screams in horror at the loss of her friend. She charges with her fans and promptly cuts Mileena in half at the torso. She proceeds to punch Mileena’s face in until a green aura oozes out of the Tarkatan clone. Kitana’s bloodlust is only stopped when she is grabbed again by Sindel. She is pulled toward the sarcophagus and laid down on the top. As Kitana struggles to maintain consciousness, she reaches for anything that she can use to cut herself free. She finds herself freed from the choke as Sindel screams in pain. When Kitana looks up, she sees the same man who called her little kit who removes his cloak to reveal Ermac. Ermac pulls out a dagger that has a yellow and white yin yang symbol on the side of the handle and promptly stabs Sindel in the chest.
She screams in pain and collapses on the ground. Kitana rushes towards her and holds her close.
Sindel:
“My daughter, it is good to see you again while my body is within my control. You must stop Quan-Chi before he releases Shinnok on the realm.”
Kitana:
“Mother...”
But before Kitana can finishes her question, Sindel goes limp. Kitana cries over the loss of her mother only for Ermac to put a hand on her shoulder.
Ermac:
“There is no time to grieve, little kit. We must move to stop Quan Chi’s plans.”
Kitana:
“Who are you to call me little kit, only my father would call me that?”
Ermac:
“Well, why wouldn’t I call you that if I wasn’t your father?”
Ermac goes onto explain that during the 1st MK tournament between Edenia and Outworld, he was planning to fight as the main leader and champion to put down Outworld’s war only to be pulled away by an invasion from Ideia, the realm of chaos. When he reached the town that was under siege, they were ambushed by a horde of parademons. The entire army would be lost and merged into one warrior, Ermac and then put through a rigorous torture by Quan Chi. Without their king, Edenia’s guardian god Argus would try to lead his realm in battle but fail ten times straight.
As for how Quan-Chi did this, it was through the use of the NetherRealm's Kamidogu: a scythe and the dark powers held within.
Liu Kang:
“MOTARO!”
Motaro looks over as he continues to punch Goro’s face in and frowns. He throws Goro over to Kang who promptly kicks Goro’s head off and punches a hole into his chest. They feel as if the battle is over only for Goro to get back up as if nothing had hit him. They scowled and took another fighting position only for a centaur with goat horns to ram into Goro. This was Motaro and on his side was another dagger. This was Outworld’s kamidogu.
Motaro proceeds to slash off each one of Goro’s arms, followed by a plunge into the chest. On his face, Goro contorts into pain before while his body dissolves into dust. Motaro turns over to Liu Kang and begins to prepare a charge. But Liu dosen’t return the fighting stance, instead he bows and takes a knee. Kintaro looks incredulous at this action.
Kintaro:
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!”
Liu Kang:
“Great Motaro, on behalf of Earthrealm and Princess Kitana, I wish to parley.”
Despite the plea, Motaro charges with his head forward. Kintaro shoots a fireball in his path, but it doesn’t stop him. Kintaro then grabs Liu and pulls himself out of the way of the charging centaur. Motaro continues to charge and goes straight off a cliff. The Kamidogu of Outworld is now lost to them.
Meanwhile, in the Nethherrealm...
Quan-Chi falls through his self-made portal with a kunai still lodged in his chest. He drags himself toward a small soulnado used for healing. As his wounds begin to close, a booming voice cuts through the air...
???:
QUAN-CHI!
Quan-Chi:
“Yes master Shinnok?”
Shinnok:
“You know that these soulnados are to allow me to return me to full strength.
Quan-Chi didn’t respond as he continued to heal. This brief respite was temporary as he was promptly tackled out of the soulnado. As he looks up, Noob Saibot shoots a ghostball that would connect with his head.
Noob Saibot:
“I have waited so long to do this.”
Saibot teleports out of sight only to grab Quan-Chi and suplex him into the floor. This brief attack has Quan’s wounds reopen. He tries to teleport only to be smacked out of it by Noob, his skull balls are struck out of the air with a shadow katana, and in desperation; Quan begins to chant a mind control spell only to have the katana shoved in his throat.
Noob Saibot:
“No incantation will save your life now.”
He pulls the katana out and decapitates Quan Chi with a second slice. He chants a rite that begins taking Quan's soul into his body, but a sharp kunai cuts his jaw. The kunai embeds itself into the wall with the name Quan-Chi written on it in katakana.
Scorpion walks into view with his arms on fire.
Scorpion:
“You may be innocent of his crimes, but of my death.”
The two begin a massive fight all along Shinnok’s crypt and despite Noob using both his darkness and ice powers to attack, nothing stops Scorpion from backing down.
Mortal Kombat- Scorpion VS Noob Saibot
Scorpion would bring up two hands to hold Noob’s legs and another one to hold his neck in place. He pulls a katana and prepares to stab down in his hated rival’s chest. But just as the sword pierced flesh, Noob stabbed Scorpion in the head with a dagger.
Mortal Kombat: Devastation of the New God
Distributed and produced by: New Line Cinema
Directed by: Juan Carlos Coto and Jack Sholder
Writer: Kevin Droney with script doctoring done by John Tobias.
Based on: Mortal Kombat by Midway.
Release Date: November 14th, 2001.
Budget: $78 Million
Domestic Box Office Total: $ 470 million worldwide. $270 million domestic and $200 million in foreign territories.
Cast:
Robin Shou as Liu Kang
Bridgette Wilson as Sonya Blade
Linden Ashby as Johnny Cage
George Takei as Raiden
Ming-Na Wen as Kitana
Michael Jai White as Jax Briggs
Bryan Clark as Shao Kahn (Voice of Frank Welker)
Tony Jaa as Quan Chi
Brandon Lee as Sub-Zero
Chris Casamassa as Scorpion
Michelle Yeoh as Sindel
Kelly Hu as Mileena
Doug Jones as Baraka
Chris Morgan as Kabal (Voice of Kevin Michael Richardson)
Thuy Trang as Jade
Litefoot as Nightwolf
Chris Conrad as Kurtis Stryker
Kane Kosugi As Noob Saibot (Voiced by Steven Blum)
Ciarán Hinds As Shinnok
Production History:
Midway entered 1999 riding high as a company. The final episode of Rampage: The Animated Series had premiered in November, the home video release of MK: Annihilation had brought in over $400 million worldwide by the end of the year, and the third film was well into production. With all of this in mind, Midway made the decision to make their first public offering in March for about 18% of their stock at $15 per share. Time Warner, which had been in a massive Acquistion spree for the last two years jumped at the stock not only to lock Midway into an exclusive contract with their film rights (Rampage is held by Paramount Pictures) but also prop up their video game division, Time Warner Interactive. Time Warner would buy about 15% of the offered stock, making them a majority shareholder within Midway.Distributed and produced by: New Line Cinema
Directed by: Juan Carlos Coto and Jack Sholder
Writer: Kevin Droney with script doctoring done by John Tobias.
Based on: Mortal Kombat by Midway.
Release Date: November 14th, 2001.
Budget: $78 Million
Domestic Box Office Total: $ 470 million worldwide. $270 million domestic and $200 million in foreign territories.
Cast:
Robin Shou as Liu Kang
Bridgette Wilson as Sonya Blade
Linden Ashby as Johnny Cage
George Takei as Raiden
Ming-Na Wen as Kitana
Michael Jai White as Jax Briggs
Bryan Clark as Shao Kahn (Voice of Frank Welker)
Tony Jaa as Quan Chi
Brandon Lee as Sub-Zero
Chris Casamassa as Scorpion
Michelle Yeoh as Sindel
Kelly Hu as Mileena
Doug Jones as Baraka
Chris Morgan as Kabal (Voice of Kevin Michael Richardson)
Thuy Trang as Jade
Litefoot as Nightwolf
Chris Conrad as Kurtis Stryker
Kane Kosugi As Noob Saibot (Voiced by Steven Blum)
Ciarán Hinds As Shinnok
Production History:
As for the film itself, director Paul Anderson was at his limit. He wanted to return to writing his films again but executive producer Lawrence Kasanoff would refuse his scripts for each film. He was prepared to walk off the project in early 2000, but current CEO Robert Shayne would intervene to keep him on the project by signing a check around $15 million to make the film under these conditions. Anderson would refuse the payoff and leave in March with only about 10 minutes of the film shot and sent to print. To fill the hole, Juan Carlos Sato and Jack Soulder; the showrunners behind the HBO spinoff, Mortal Kombat: Chronicles would be given the task filming as directors.
As for the writing staff, John Tobias once again took more of an editorial role for this film as at the time he was in charge of the development staff behind the game that would be coming out alongside the movie, Mythologies: The Rise of Outworld. This game would see players take the role of Shao Zeung, guardian god of Outworld during the reign of Onaga the Dragon King, the campaign against the realms of Tarkata; Zaterra; and Edenia, and the repelling of Khaosrealm. The game would be released as a launch title for the Giga Nintendo Entertainment System, followed by a release to the PS2 and Sega Neptune in December.
The First Trailer:
Post-production on MK3 would be complete in July 2001 and its first trailer would be attached to the theatrical release of Training Day. A transcript of the trailer is as follows:Narrator (Kevin Michael Richardson): Five years has passed since Shao Khan’s invasion of Earthrealm and neither realm shows any sign of victory.
*The scene shifts to a battlefield where modern day soldiers open fire on a horde of Hellbeasts. Only ten of these creatures fall to the gunfire before the horde crashes and gores the first wave of soldiers on their horns. The next scene sees a conclave of Saurians fighting off Centaurs with their acid spray. Then, footage from Chronicles is shown with Kurtis Stryker and Kabal are fighting against a red kunoichi throwing spikes of blood made from their fallen squad mates. *
Narrator: The fools don’t even realize that their folly strengthens a greater foe.
*The next scene shows a dark portal opening from the ground of the sky portal. A geyser of green energy bursts from the portal with a chorus of screams. At the end of these screams, Quan Chi (played by Tony Jaa) rises from the portal with a now zombified Sindel, a black ninja with burning green eyes, and a dark green ogre creature wrapped in chains. *
Narrator: “If both sides do not put their differences aside, all realms will suffer a fate worse than death itself.”
MORTAL KOMBAT: DEVESTATION OF THE ELDER GOD
COMING NOVEMBER 14th, 2001.
Plot Synopsis:
The film opens within a desolate red valley as three parademons pull on the limbs of a Tarkatan. The tarkatan’s blades were not attached to its body, as one is currently impaled through the head of a fourth parademon while the other is laid on the ground. We hear the body finally tears in two as we begin to zoom onto a cathedral made of bones.
Within the temple, Quan Chi stands in front of an altar as a vein of green energy spills out of his body into the altar. The vein stops flowing and Quan Chi collapses to his knees. After heavy breathing, he looks to a pair of stone doors glowing green with the same energy. This glow however, only goes up about 9/10 of the width of the doors. He smiles at his handywork because he knows he’s almost ready to open the seal of Shinnok, the fallen elder god. Together he will bring all realms into the sweet embrace of death.
???: Quan Chi.
Quan looks up to see a shadow approach him alongside a dark green ogre wrapped in chains. The shadow is known as Noob Saibot, a wraith and former assaassin of the Lin-Kuei clan.
Noob Saibot: “I have brought the leader of the Oni to you. How goes the progress on bringing down Khaosrealm?
Quan Chi: “Patience Saibot, the realm will fall in due time. Earthrealm and Outworld will be the next to fall.”
Moloch roars at both of them and charges at Quan Chi. He promptly shoots a skull ball at the Oni, stabs him with two meat hooks, and chants an incantation that pacifies him. Moloch stands back up with a dead faced look in his eyes. He immediately kneels to the two and Quan Chi smiles.
Quan Chi: “Take Moloch back to his people and send them to the portal, it's time for Queen Sheeva to stop being a thorn in my plans.”
The title then begins with the Mortal Kombat theme playing along with scenes from the first two movies and the chronicles before the title finally comes together.
Act I: Warzone
The film begins with Kurtis Stryker (Chris Conrad) leads a platoon of soldiers. Their mission is to clear out a group of Hellbeasts who have been digging up a group of stone pillars in Millenium Park. The soldiers have been equipped with assault rifles that shoot armor piercing bullets. Once they reach the park, they find that the hellbeasts have dug up more than a group of stone pillars. They’ve dug up a shrine dedicated to Raiden. The two forces clash and only ten of the beasts are killed by the salvo, the other hellbeasts slap the bullets out of the air with their tails before running forward. Each of the soldiers continue firing and in one case throwing a flash grenade. The blinding light gives the soldiers time to fall back into a more advantageous position while Stryker runs forward and strikes one of the hellbeasts with another new piece of weaponry: the Haokah stun baton. The baton connects and sends a pulse of electricity through the beast's body and causing it to fall to the ground. Stryker follows up by shooting the beast in the head with his new pistol. A second hellbeast tries to swipe at him, but is promptly shot by another one of the soldiers. The remaining hellbeasts scatter in an attempt to avoid the next salvo of fire, but each are immediately struck by a group of ice tipped crossbow bolts. Their reinforcements had arrived led by the assassin Sub-Zero (Brandon Lee). He leaps forward and impaled a sword made of ice into the last hellbeast’s tail and turned to Stryker.Sub Zero:
“Finish it.”
Stryker nods and promptly reloads with a new clip. He puts one right between the eyes of the hellbeast.
Stryker:
“What took you so long, Grandmaster?”
Sub-Zero:
“You of all people should understand that preparing for battle takes time, Lieutenant Stryker. These incursions from the Netherworld are not the only threat we have to remain vigilant about.”
Stryker:
“I know, but look at what happened to my men.”
He points over to his squadron and of the 50 men we saw with Stryker, only 15 were still standing. The other 35 were either wounded or dead. Sub-Zero says a command to his men. They gather the dead into a mass pile, and throw an incendiary grenade into the pile. Stryker scowls at the practice but knows its necessary. Every dead man whose body is left somewhat intact can be reanimated as one of Quan-Chi's slaves. He salutes to the pile and then turns around toward the entrance of the shrine.
Once in the shrine, he turns on a flashlight and points it toward a wall. On the wall are murals of several people walking toward the shrine and making a prayer to the Haokah. The next picture shows a blue light shot out from the shrine and engrossed the people. Once they walked out of the shrine, they began shooting elemental attacks from their hands, engrossing their body with the same elements, and showing super human feats. The final part of the mural saw these warriors fighting along with a large man covered in cyan energy against a horned red and black demon.
Stryker:
“I need to show this to Grandmaster Kang and Princess Kitana. This could help us bring the fight to Quan-Chi much sooner.”
He takes a picture of the mural and turns to leave the area only to dodge a missile. He is promptly punched through the smoke. After shaking his head, he sees a figure coming through the smoke.
???: “Earthrealm operative detected. Proceed to execute capture protocol.”
The robots red plates then transform to yellow while the white plates turn black. Once done, he shoots a net at Stryker. Stryker dodges the net and pulls out his handgun. The bullets ricochet off the armor plates but one bullet strikes the eye. It shuts down the eye and forces the robot back a bit. Stryker pulls his shock baton out and swings for the head. The robot ducks, hits Stryker with an uppercut, and then teleports over to where he will land. He opens up his arm to create a buzzsaw. His attack is stopped by Sub-Zero, who creates an ice slide for Stryker to slide out of the shrine.
Robot: “Additional Assailant identified. Kuai-Liang, renegade member. You shall be retaken for processing and conversion.”
He hits a series of buttons on his arms and three more robots appear. One has the red plating, the second has an ice-blue plating, and the final has a grey plating. Sub-Zero plants his feet and moves into a fighting stance. The four robots surround him with capturing tools in one arm and dismemberment tools in the other. Sub-Zero promptly flips out of the ambush with an ice clone, sweeps the leg of the blue robot, dodges a swipe from the grey robots’ pulse axe, only to get caught by an explosion from the red robots’ missile. The yellow robot follows up with a bomb to the face which sends Sub-Zero crashing into the shrine itself. The robots surround him and shoot an electric net that shocks him unconscious. But as the reach for their downed renegade, the shrine glows white, overloads the robots, and promptly teleports Sub-Zero away.
Meanwhile in Outworld...
We join Princess Kitana and her handmaiden Jade in the former arena of Shao Khan. The two were allowed to enter here by decree of the Shokan queen, Sheeva (voiced by Vanessa Marshall). Their purpose, to hand out food and supplies from Earthrealm. Sheeva needs the help of the Earthrealmers to put down the final threat to her rule: the Centaurians and their leader Motaro. In return for the help of their champion, Grandmaster Liu Kang; Sheeva would help the Earthrealmers for their assault on the Netherrealm. But their humanitarian efforts would be stopped cold by a man with glowing green eyes. But the man doesn’t attack anyone, instead he grabs Kitana by the shoulder and speaks:
???: “You have a higher purpose than the Shokan, little kit.”
Kitana recoils in shock as she knows that only person has ever called her little kit: her father.
Kitana: “Who are you?”
???: “Someone with a higher purpose and someone who is being used against their will.”
The man runs off into the crowd and Kitana is shocked at this revelation.
Back in Earthrealm...
Stryker and his men report into the leader of the Outerrealm defense task force: General Jackson Briggs over their last mission. He reports on the ambush by the Lin-Kuei splinter group Saibou, the murals within the shrine, and the sudden disappearance by Grandmaster Sub-Zero. Jax fears that all of this happening is another strike by Quan-Chi due to the fact that no one within their ranks knows how to open a portal into the Netherrealm. He dismisses Stryker and then heads downstairs into an underground lab. It is here that a portal into other realms is being built. This project was helped along thanks to the remnants of Shao Khan’s shadow priests and monitored by Sonya Blade’s squadron. The two volunteer for the next test of the portal but upon activation the portal changes from green to white.
Back with Liu Kang, he is currently meeting with Sheeva’s trusted general, Kintaro (played by Rhassan Orange). The two are looking for a staging area for their assault on Motaro’s main fortress: the living forest along with finding a portal into the Netherrealm. Kang feared that this would be a difficult negotiation due to the fact that Kintaro learned how to fight underneath Goro, but he finds that the tiger striped shokan is a consummate professional. The plan is a pincer attack on the two paths within the forest. Liu Kang will lead the assault on the northern end to cause a panic within Motaro’s forces while his forces will attack the southern entrance. As a liason between both sides, Kabal provides the Shokan and the Shaolin monks with state-of-the-art helicopters to move into position. But as the forces move into position, a green portal opens in front of the advancing soldiers.
Goro grabs a monk and promptly rips him in half. He throws the top half of their comrade at the squadron only for one of the shokan soldiers to swat the half out of the way. This shokan promptly charges Goro only catch him in a bear hug using his bottom arms and begins punching with the top set. Goro only stops when he is struck by a fireball from Liu Kang. Goro roars and charges towards the squad of soldiers, only for Liu to follow up with a flying kick.
Liu Kang:
Continue with the plan, I’ll keep him busy.
Kang ties a headband onto his head and takes a fighting stance against the zombified shokan. Goro stares in response and charges towards the soldiers. Liu Kang shoots another fireball but it doesn’t stop Goro once it connects. Kang promptly kicks Goro in the shin and this causes the shokan to trip and land face first. Liu Kang follows up with a front flip, landing his feet directly on Goro’s head. He moves back to follow up with another kick to the head only for Goro to grab his foot and slam him into the ground multiple times. He throws Kang into the air and connects with a double fisted uppercut. The grandmaster flips backward into the ground, battered and defeated. As Goro moves forward to capture his opponent, a white light blinds him and teleports Liu Kang away.
Act II: The Elder God’s Fall
Liu-Kang and Sub Zero wake up in a room covered by white pillars. The two look up and see statues of various men and women in the room. In between each o the pillars are murals detailing the formation of the realms, A blue and white man being sealed into a tomb. But the most noteworthy mural is of a man wearing a red and green hat fighting another man with a yellow hat on his head and a amulet in his right.Liu-Kang:
“Lord Raiden? Was this your past?”
A voice booms into their mind, body, and souls.
???:
“FOLLOW THE STATUES!”
Sub-Zero:
“Who are you and why have we been brought here?”
???:
“FOLLOW THE STATUES!”
Meanwhile in another pillar filled room, Sonya Blade and Jackson Briggs begin walking out in an attempt to get their equipment to work.
Jax:
“No signal for the portal tubes here either Sonya.”
Sonya:
“We need to keep trying Jax. Every minute we spend here not finding a way back allows Quan Chi another attempt to raid our realm and our people.”
???:
“FOLLOW THE STATUES!”
Jax:
“You listen here, this better be a way back to our realm. Otherwise, we’ll find our own way out!”
???:
“ALL WILL BE REVEALED WHEN YOU FOLLOW THE STATUES!”
The two begin to follow the statues and see the same murals that Liu-Kang and Sub-Zero see. After some time, the four earthrrealmers reach a gazebo.
Liu-Kang: “Major Briggs, Lieutenant Blade. Do you have any idea where we are?”
Sonya:” No idea, but we followed the voices for a way to get back to Earthrealm. But what of the offensive on the Shokans.”
Liu-Kang: “I ended up with a fight against Goro when the offensive began, so hopefully its still ongoing.”
Jax: “And why are you here Sub-Zero?”
Sub-Zero: “I was fighting off a group of cyborgs to save your operative.”
???: “If you are done catching up, then it's time for me to explain this summon.”
A crack of lightning streaks through the sky behind him only to wrap around and slam into the center of the hall. When the lightning subsides, Lord Raiden stands up in all of his glory but with his body covered in a blue aura.
Liu-Kang: “Lord Raiden, you are the one who summoned us here?”
Raiden: “I am merely just a messenger for those even higher than me. You all have questions about your realm?”
Jax: “No, we need to get back so we can win this war against the Netherrealm.”
Raiden:” So quick to anger you mortals are, this summon is about the war against the Netherrealm.”
Raiden explains that eons ago, a group of powerful gods came together to banish their creator, the one being. They did so by using the six kamidogu to remove his soul, the closest thing to death that a god can ever feel. The leader of that group was known as Shinnok, but 2000 years ago he began a campaign against gods and mortals alike to bring about death. Raiden was the one who fought Shinnok with the help of a chosen few from each of the realms and this war led to the separation between earthrealm, outworld, edenia, seido, and ideia. While Shinnok was not killed, he was drained of most of his power and banished to the Netherrealm for eternal torment. This should have been the end of it but now that he’s free; nothing will stop him from killing us and all of your realm’s populace. You must stop him.
Liu Kang:
“But how can we kill a god. We don’t even know where the Kamidogu are?”
Raiden:
“It is in a vault within the sky temple. Our vessel will meet you there to show you the way.”
The four are about to be teleported back to Earthrealm only for a group of bones to spike out of the ground. This group opens a portal from which Quan-Chi, Noob Saibot, and a zombified Shao Khan. The four mortals take fighting positions.
Back with Kitana...
After that strange meeting, Kitana returned to her chambers to reflect on what happened up to this point. What could be the higher purpose that the man could mean, and why did he call her little kit? The last time she saw her actual father was when Shao Khan forced her to execute him as a test of loyalty. Kitana curled into a ball and began to cry as she remembered the horrible day her realm was taken by Outworld. The grief was so much that she was only broken out of it when she was grabbed by the throat by a familiar white weave of hair. She was immediately pulled backwards to the floor to see her assailant.
Sindel:
“You are pathetic and weak, girl. But in death, you will serve a higher purpose!”
SIndel screams a sonic blast at the ground, causing Kitana to fall into the catacombs. She is promptly stopped from falling by Sindel’s hair, but it’s wrapped around her neck in a hangman’s noose. Just as she begins to lose consciousness, the noose is loosened as SIndel falls into the same hole as Kitana. Kitana finds herself in the arms of Jade while SIndel is found trying to pull herself off of a stalactite impaled in her gut. The two leave Sindel to explore the catacombs and realizes that much of the ruins within are of Edenians, not Outworld’s. The two eventually find a crypt with a sarcophagus.
Jade:
“Could this be where the royalty of Edenia were interred? I assumed Shao Khan just devoured their souls and then disposed of the bodies with the Tarkatans.”
Jade proceeds to rub some of the dust of the sarcophagus to find a message inscribed: “Tomb raiders beware, the God’s tools are not playthings.”
Jade: “The God’s tools?”
Jade looks around to find Kitana and finds another tunnel that seems to head upward. She calls out Kitana’s name and gets a response at the top of the tunnel’s staircase. Just as she reaches the top a pair of sharp objects fly right by her head
It is Melina but what horrifies Jade isn’t the fact that she has her trademark Sais, but that she’s missing her bottom jaw. The clone charged while Jade pulls out her bo staff and took a fighting position. As the two fight, Kitana separates the two with her fans. The two flee back to the catacombs only to find Sindel with a hole through her stomach and her eyes glowing with green energy.
Back with the elder gods...
Liu Kang and Sonya are back-to-back with each other as Noob Saibot and a shadow clone advances on them. Jax and Sub-Zero have managed to kick Shao Khan off the platform only for Quan Chi to summon him right back. The former emperor promptly shoulders tackles Jax to the ground, swats Sub-Zero away with a sledgehammer strike, and finally impales Jax with an energy spear. Sonya screams in rage and charges Quan Chi. The sorcerer smiles but quickly frowns as he is yanked back by a familiar kunai.
Scorpion: “GET OVER HERE!”
Scorpion follows up with an uppercut to knock Quan Chi down and promptly begins punching the sorcerer's face in.
Quan Chi: “Scorpion, stop. I allowed you to...”
Scorpion: “MY NAME IS HANZO HAZASHI, WARRIOR OF THE SHIRAI RYU! MY WIFE AND MY SON WERE INNOCENT CIVILIANS AND YOU KILLED THEM!”
The blows continued to rain upon them and as Noob and Shao managed to pull him off, it only led to them being set on fire. As he moved back to the subject of his rage, Quan Chi quickly teleported away along with his minions. Scorpion screams in rage and teleports back to the Netherrealm. Sonya cradles Jax in her arms.
Sonya:
“Jax, hold on. We’ll get you back home. Just hold on.”
Raiden walks toward Jax and begins healing him with his lightning. The wound closes and this allow Jax to begin breathing.
Raiden:
“Know this Jackson Briggs, this healing is only temporary. You must hurry to the Sky Temple and claim the Kamidogu of Earthrealm.” He points to Liu Kang and Sub-Zero “As for the rest of you, rally your forces to begin the assault on the Netherrealm.”
A bolt of lightning teleports them back to where they need to be.
Back with Kitana...
Kitana once again finds herself on the backfoot as a now armless Sindel shouts causing stalactites to fall around the crypt. Jade stops the screaming by smashing her staff into Sindel’s throat. She follows up by smashing Sindel in the stomach, an upward swipe to the chin, and a sweep of the legs. Jade prepares to follow up with a stomp through the head only to be run through the gut by Mileena. Kitana screams in horror at the loss of her friend. She charges with her fans and promptly cuts Mileena in half at the torso. She proceeds to punch Mileena’s face in until a green aura oozes out of the Tarkatan clone. Kitana’s bloodlust is only stopped when she is grabbed again by Sindel. She is pulled toward the sarcophagus and laid down on the top. As Kitana struggles to maintain consciousness, she reaches for anything that she can use to cut herself free. She finds herself freed from the choke as Sindel screams in pain. When Kitana looks up, she sees the same man who called her little kit who removes his cloak to reveal Ermac. Ermac pulls out a dagger that has a yellow and white yin yang symbol on the side of the handle and promptly stabs Sindel in the chest.
She screams in pain and collapses on the ground. Kitana rushes towards her and holds her close.
Sindel:
“My daughter, it is good to see you again while my body is within my control. You must stop Quan-Chi before he releases Shinnok on the realm.”
Kitana:
“Mother...”
But before Kitana can finishes her question, Sindel goes limp. Kitana cries over the loss of her mother only for Ermac to put a hand on her shoulder.
Ermac:
“There is no time to grieve, little kit. We must move to stop Quan Chi’s plans.”
Kitana:
“Who are you to call me little kit, only my father would call me that?”
Ermac:
“Well, why wouldn’t I call you that if I wasn’t your father?”
Ermac goes onto explain that during the 1st MK tournament between Edenia and Outworld, he was planning to fight as the main leader and champion to put down Outworld’s war only to be pulled away by an invasion from Ideia, the realm of chaos. When he reached the town that was under siege, they were ambushed by a horde of parademons. The entire army would be lost and merged into one warrior, Ermac and then put through a rigorous torture by Quan Chi. Without their king, Edenia’s guardian god Argus would try to lead his realm in battle but fail ten times straight.
As for how Quan-Chi did this, it was through the use of the NetherRealm's Kamidogu: a scythe and the dark powers held within.
Act III: Preparation for Invasion
Liu Kang finds himself back in Outworld only a handful of monks are still alive and breathing. The shokans are little better with only Kintaro still fighting on. He sees the shokan holding the undead Goro in a bear hug with his bottom arms while punching with his top fists.Liu Kang:
“MOTARO!”
Motaro looks over as he continues to punch Goro’s face in and frowns. He throws Goro over to Kang who promptly kicks Goro’s head off and punches a hole into his chest. They feel as if the battle is over only for Goro to get back up as if nothing had hit him. They scowled and took another fighting position only for a centaur with goat horns to ram into Goro. This was Motaro and on his side was another dagger. This was Outworld’s kamidogu.
Motaro proceeds to slash off each one of Goro’s arms, followed by a plunge into the chest. On his face, Goro contorts into pain before while his body dissolves into dust. Motaro turns over to Liu Kang and begins to prepare a charge. But Liu dosen’t return the fighting stance, instead he bows and takes a knee. Kintaro looks incredulous at this action.
Kintaro:
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!”
Liu Kang:
“Great Motaro, on behalf of Earthrealm and Princess Kitana, I wish to parley.”
Despite the plea, Motaro charges with his head forward. Kintaro shoots a fireball in his path, but it doesn’t stop him. Kintaro then grabs Liu and pulls himself out of the way of the charging centaur. Motaro continues to charge and goes straight off a cliff. The Kamidogu of Outworld is now lost to them.
Meanwhile, in the Nethherrealm...
Quan-Chi falls through his self-made portal with a kunai still lodged in his chest. He drags himself toward a small soulnado used for healing. As his wounds begin to close, a booming voice cuts through the air...
???:
QUAN-CHI!
Quan-Chi:
“Yes master Shinnok?”
Shinnok:
“You know that these soulnados are to allow me to return me to full strength.
Quan-Chi didn’t respond as he continued to heal. This brief respite was temporary as he was promptly tackled out of the soulnado. As he looks up, Noob Saibot shoots a ghostball that would connect with his head.
Noob Saibot:
“I have waited so long to do this.”
Saibot teleports out of sight only to grab Quan-Chi and suplex him into the floor. This brief attack has Quan’s wounds reopen. He tries to teleport only to be smacked out of it by Noob, his skull balls are struck out of the air with a shadow katana, and in desperation; Quan begins to chant a mind control spell only to have the katana shoved in his throat.
Noob Saibot:
“No incantation will save your life now.”
He pulls the katana out and decapitates Quan Chi with a second slice. He chants a rite that begins taking Quan's soul into his body, but a sharp kunai cuts his jaw. The kunai embeds itself into the wall with the name Quan-Chi written on it in katakana.
Scorpion walks into view with his arms on fire.
Scorpion:
“You may be innocent of his crimes, but of my death.”
The two begin a massive fight all along Shinnok’s crypt and despite Noob using both his darkness and ice powers to attack, nothing stops Scorpion from backing down.
Mortal Kombat- Scorpion VS Noob Saibot
Scorpion would bring up two hands to hold Noob’s legs and another one to hold his neck in place. He pulls a katana and prepares to stab down in his hated rival’s chest. But just as the sword pierced flesh, Noob stabbed Scorpion in the head with a dagger.
The two looked each other dead in the eyes as their souls began to float out of their bodies and into the soulnado. A bright green light shines outside of the crypt and once it subsides, Shinnok picks up the dagger and picks up a blood red scythe. He cuts the corpses of both ninja across the chest and this causes both of them to stand up and kneel before the elder god.
The movie ends with Liu returning to Outworld castle with Kintaro and being informed of Kitana’s disappearance; Jade, Kitana, and Ermac continuing their travel through the catacombs of Outworld; Sub-Zero, Stryker, Jax, and Sonya marshalling their troops for a raid on the sky temple; and in mid-credits scene, a young man with a razor-sharp top hat picking up the Outworld Kamidogu.
TO BE CONTINUED IN MORTAL KOMBAT: DEICIDE
Box Office and Critical Reception:
With the change in directors hampering shooting for about a month, many at New Line considered Devastation a potential flop. But the opening week bringing in $80 million would quell these fears. The film would a successful run of $270 million in box office revenue along with a massive boost in sales for Rise of Outworld. As a first for Warner-Bros, the DVD and vhs release would be included in a boxset that includes the previous two films and Rise of Outworld.
As for the critics, Devastation would only wow Siskel this time around as Ebert had felt that constant fights have run their course and the little sprinkles of character development did not pick up the slack.
Future:
With the success of the film, a fourth film Deicide; would begin shooting in February 2002. As for Chronicles, the final season of the show would begin air on HBO in January with Fire and Ice, a full season detailing the rift between the Lin-Kuei and the Shirai Ryu. On the gaming end, a special trailer for the next mainline MK series would be shown as a special feature on the DVD. This game, Wrath of the Dragon King, would be released alongside the movie in 2003 for the GNES, Neptune, PlayStation 2, and the new platform on the block; the Apple iMac computer.
The movie ends with Liu returning to Outworld castle with Kintaro and being informed of Kitana’s disappearance; Jade, Kitana, and Ermac continuing their travel through the catacombs of Outworld; Sub-Zero, Stryker, Jax, and Sonya marshalling their troops for a raid on the sky temple; and in mid-credits scene, a young man with a razor-sharp top hat picking up the Outworld Kamidogu.
TO BE CONTINUED IN MORTAL KOMBAT: DEICIDE
Box Office and Critical Reception:
With the change in directors hampering shooting for about a month, many at New Line considered Devastation a potential flop. But the opening week bringing in $80 million would quell these fears. The film would a successful run of $270 million in box office revenue along with a massive boost in sales for Rise of Outworld. As a first for Warner-Bros, the DVD and vhs release would be included in a boxset that includes the previous two films and Rise of Outworld.
As for the critics, Devastation would only wow Siskel this time around as Ebert had felt that constant fights have run their course and the little sprinkles of character development did not pick up the slack.
Future:
With the success of the film, a fourth film Deicide; would begin shooting in February 2002. As for Chronicles, the final season of the show would begin air on HBO in January with Fire and Ice, a full season detailing the rift between the Lin-Kuei and the Shirai Ryu. On the gaming end, a special trailer for the next mainline MK series would be shown as a special feature on the DVD. This game, Wrath of the Dragon King, would be released alongside the movie in 2003 for the GNES, Neptune, PlayStation 2, and the new platform on the block; the Apple iMac computer.
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So Warner bought Midway far earlier than otl, very nice and would keep the midway brand ittl too
They currently own about 15% of Midway. By 2003, the merger will have been completed. The next game film for WB I want to do is Gauntlet.
That reminds me. Who owns New Line Cinema? Because I'm hoping it's WB.
That's great! May I request a Tapper series that doubles as an intercompany crossover with all of WB's gaming library?
That would work very well with the upcoming fantasy boom of Harry Potter and TLOR ,
That would have to be a HBO series then
I'll take it if it means we can see Scorpion and Sub-Zero start a bar fight in one of the episodes.
Man, Harry Potter, LOTR, Gauntlet and D&D. Who would've though that the thing to dominate the theaters in this TL would've turned out to be fantasy movies?
Indeed. But whether it will just be a fad remains to be seen.
Now that I got MK3 done, next post I'm writing out is the Giga NES's launch. After that, a brief history of Pokemon up to this point, and then its time to start writing out Final Fantasy's debut on the big screen.
MK3 IS FINISHED? i thought he lacked something, but very nice to see pokemon and the GNES soon too
Oppsie. Just added the ending, reception, and future of the franchise.
Before I turn in, I just want to say congratulations to the NEW and Possibly Final Ring of Honor World Heavyweight Champion, THE OCTOPUS JONATHON GRESHAM!