KT, please stop with your own 'vision'. + maybe we need a DIRECT reboot.

Making Scorpion a silent assassin would be horrible, he's probably my favorite character and has the most interesting backstory of them all. I much prefer to give the characters back stories, that was my main problem with the first films, too many characters were just thrown on screen with no explanation as to who they were.

"And it made me wonder, would I do the same? What would I sacrifice to be loved? Not my balls."

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It was going well until he made Scorpion and Subzero childhood friends -rolling my eyes- . First of all, Subzero is chinese, the Lin Kuei is well duh...Chinese. Idk if the reboot movie happens theres a 50% chance that it will be good.

While I agree with your premise (i.e. KT's "vision" for MK is not needed and should probably be doing his own thing), you defending the first theatrical MK movie as supposedly getting Scorpion more right than this series is incorrect. You are not familiar with the games. The first movie simply made him and Sub-Zero minions for Shang Tsung which they most certainly were not in the games. This series, even though it has a lot of problems via KT's "vision", portrays the Scorpion character much more accurately according to the games than the first theatrical movie.

He filmed the pilot episode on his own dime. To me, that indicates a high level of fondness for the franchise. While I wasn't thrilled with the notion of it being a pilot for the game, I'm glad that it led to him being able to helm this series. I'm only two episodes in (trying to pace myself) for the new MK Legacy but I see nothing wrong with it thus far.

As for not needing his vision/resenting change:

I'm old enough to have played the first one in the arcades when it was new. Since then, I've:

Bought all the main games + MK vs DC. (Yes, even the stinky MK4)
Watched both movies.
Watched Mortal Kombat Konquest
Read the Malibu comic series (all of them).
Watched one episode of that craptacular cartoon.

I say there is room for his vision of Mortal Kombat. Yes, it changes things but so did the movies and the TV series and the comics. Even the games have retconned a number of things.

To me, I passed my Ahsoka Tano moment long ago when it comes to wanting "one pure canon". There is room for different takes on the canon and, thus far, I'm glad we're getting his vision.

I was never sold on Kevin's vision for Mortal Kombat. To me, he either doesn't understand the world of Mortal Kombat (though he claims to be a huge fan) or he just doesn't have faith that the games would work as a movie, so he had to twist and change things to what he thought was more appropriate. Either way, he was a bad fit.

I absolutely HATED his Rebirth pitch. The idea of going the "Dark Knight" route and making everything more realistic, eliminating the fantasy, was appalling to me. His Legacy Web series brought back some of the mysticism but he still changed too much and the quality of the series was just mediocre. I understand that he didn't have a big budget, but it was still bad. I was shocked at how awful Season 2 was. The only things that were improved were the atmosphere and the fighting.

In my opinion, they need to take the original film that Paul W.S. Anderson directed, and add in the bloody gore, as well as focusing more on character development. Those were really the ONLY things missing from that film. Do that, and I truly believe you've got the perfect MK movie.


The good news is though, KT is officially done with Mortal Kombat. He walked away from the movie, and I assume Legacy isn't getting a third season. I don't know if anybody else plans to step in or not, but I'd rather have no MK movie at all than one with KT attached to it.