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Mortal Kombat 3 - A film by Roger Christian

post #1 of 77
6/17/04 at 3:21pm
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Well, Christopher Lambert´s site confirms he (Lamby) will be Rayden in Mortal Kombat : Domination...

http://www.christopherlambert.org/currently.htm

IMDB lists Roger Christian (from the classic Battlefield: Earth) as the director, which is clearly a sign of impeding doom. MK2 was bad enough, but with this guy at the helm, i can´t even begin to wonder what it´ll be like...

What happened with Drew´s script, by the way? Are they still using it? Should be interesting to watch the movie with that in mind. Wonder how AICN would follow this...

On a happier note, Lambert is in the new Luc Besson film. This flew under the radar to me:

http://www.atonimage-lefilm.com/
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post #2 of 77
6/17/04 at 4:37pm
The first one was fun and Christopher Lambert stole the show in a good way.

The second one was so stupid it was hilarious.

The third one? I'm there opening day.
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post #3 of 77
6/17/04 at 4:47pm
Seeing as Battlefield: Earth is an American Comedy Classic, there's no stopping me from seeing this opening day!
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post #4 of 77
6/17/04 at 4:50pm
Battlefield: Earth made my eyes bleed.
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post #5 of 77
6/17/04 at 4:53pm
Holy shit!

Roger Christian?!

My prayers have been answered!

Seriously... I pray he does it. It will be the perfect way to break that anal cherry of mine. Having the "director" of BATTLEFIELD EARTH direct something I wrote would guarantee absolute apocalyptic hilarity.

Pleasepleaseplease let this be true.
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post #6 of 77
6/17/04 at 4:53pm
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Originally posted by MoriartyAICN
Holy shit!

Roger Christian?!

My prayers have been answered!

Seriously... I pray he does it. It will be the perfect way to break that anal cherry of mine. Having the "director" of BATTLEFIELD EARTH direct something I wrote would guarantee absolute apocalyptic hilarity.

Pleasepleaseplease let this be true.
Shit, that'd be like Jan Debont doing something I was involved in!
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post #7 of 77
6/17/04 at 4:57pm
MK II is the only movie I can remember falling asleep in. oh look shao khan is........zzzzzzzzzzz. The first one was alright, but the second one merits eternal damnation from the horned one himself.
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post #8 of 77
6/17/04 at 5:02pm
From a male unicorn? That's not quite punishment, if you ask me. Not punishment at all.
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post #9 of 77
6/17/04 at 5:04pm
Perhaps he's refering to Matthew Barney in Cremaster IV? I bet that would be pretty cool too.
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post #10 of 77
6/17/04 at 5:05pm
Heh, I knew about this a few weeks back. A guy on another forum I frequent claims he was slated to direct this, but he was told to use a previous directors storyboards and so was unable to have his own 'vision' (For a Mortal Kombat movie? Give me a fucking break).

He then left the project and has a 'Space Trucker' movie that has Kelsey Grammer(!) interested.

And I'm really not making this up.
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post #11 of 77
6/17/04 at 5:06pm
I bet the other dude is, though.
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post #12 of 77
6/17/04 at 5:08pm
Shit, if this happens, I say we all get loaded and crash the premiere.
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post #13 of 77
6/17/04 at 5:10pm
Shoudn't there be a law somewhere forbidding video games that don't make any money anymore from becoming movies? Mortal Kombat is off the map if you ask me.
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post #14 of 77
6/17/04 at 5:12pm
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Originally posted by juan23
Shoudn't there be a law somewhere forbidding video games that don't make any money anymore from becoming movies? Mortal Kombat is off the map if you ask me.
I'm on the phone with Tom DeLay as we speak.
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post #15 of 77
6/17/04 at 5:18pm
Oh come on, Roger Christian will do just fine! ...assuming he learns how to point the camera, as opposed to that tilted view bullshit... and he learns to direct actors... and he gets a decent special FX team this time around...

See? The odds are slightly better than winning Power Ball
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post #16 of 77
6/17/04 at 5:45pm
Just the fact that Roger Christian is directing again I find bewildering.
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post #17 of 77
6/17/04 at 5:47pm
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Originally posted by Night Ranger
Does Roger Christian have a sister?
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post #18 of 77
6/17/04 at 5:52pm
Magnificent.
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post #19 of 77
6/17/04 at 5:52pm
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Originally posted by Nordling
Shit, if this happens, I say we all get loaded and crash the premiere.
It'll be real hard to show up at everyone's house when the VHS tape is released.
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post #20 of 77
6/17/04 at 5:53pm
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Originally posted by fabfunk
Just the fact that Roger Christian is directing again I find bewildering.
TYPED BY YODA.
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post #21 of 77
6/17/04 at 5:58pm
I could die happy if Linden Ashby returns as Johnny Cage.

Shit...what is Bridgette Wilson doing? Cause I can only watch Extreme Ops so many times, you understand...
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post #22 of 77
6/17/04 at 6:11pm
Did roger ever learn to hold the camera straight?
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post #23 of 77
6/17/04 at 6:12pm
No. He failed that part of the personality test.
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post #24 of 77
6/17/04 at 6:14pm
Can't believe this guy is directing after BE. The casting couch must still exist.
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post #25 of 77
6/17/04 at 6:24pm
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Originally posted by Nordling
Shit, if this happens, I say we all get loaded and crash the premiere.
Hey I could do my Darth Vader shadow trick!
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post #26 of 77
6/17/04 at 6:33pm
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Originally posted by Nordling
Shit, if this happens, I say we all get loaded and crash the premiere.
And someone should bring the jar of moths, eh?

Beauty.
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post #27 of 77
6/17/04 at 7:04pm
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post #28 of 77
6/17/04 at 7:06pm
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Originally posted by juan23
Shoudn't there be a law somewhere forbidding video games that don't make any money anymore from becoming movies? Mortal Kombat is off the map if you ask me.
Interesting. Deadly Alliance sold millions of copies and Deception received a couple of best fighting game at E3 awards. It's still a very huge franchise.
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post #29 of 77
6/17/04 at 7:15pm
Worthy of Mr. Christian's direction for the movie.
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post #30 of 77
6/17/04 at 7:20pm
So if Roger Christian does turn out to be the director of Mortal Kombat 3, does that mean Drew and Scott are obligated to rewrite the script in order to better suit the "sensibilities" of Christian as a director?

Think of how chafed and red that brown-eye would get by page 50. I guess that's the benefit of having a co-writer on board so you can switch off every fifteen pages or so, waiting until the other writer has finished off another king-sized greaser courtesy of Long John Silver's and El Pollo Loco. Hell, those two places are worth a good twenty six wipes a piece...
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post #31 of 77
6/17/04 at 7:21pm
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Originally posted by Vemsie
Interesting. Deadly Alliance sold millions of copies and Deception received a couple of best fighting game at E3 awards. It's still a very huge franchise.
I think Deception was only in the top 5 or so... Considering there were like, 10 fighting games at E3... It´s no surprise MK was listed. Hell, the Fight Club game (!!!) was in the top 5 or so too!

And MK still sells, because most fighting games nowadays are too deep for the average, lazy, button-masher consumer. MK games are easy to learn and they have blood. Instant money.

Even old good franchises (Soul Calibur, DOA) are getting dumbed-out engines, because that´s where the money is.
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post #32 of 77
6/17/04 at 7:26pm
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Originally posted by Vemsie
Interesting. Deadly Alliance sold millions of copies and Deception received a couple of best fighting game at E3 awards. It's still a very huge franchise.
Yes, but the movies sucked.
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post #33 of 77
6/17/04 at 7:49pm
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Originally posted by Orin_Quon
Even old good franchises (Soul Calibur, DOA) are getting dumbed-out engines, because that´s where the money is.

DOA didn't get dumbed down. It was already there.
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post #34 of 77
6/17/04 at 8:08pm
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Originally posted by E.C.
DOA didn't get dumbed down. It was already there.
DOA was never that deep, but DOA1 and 2 have a longer learning curve than DOA3.
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post #35 of 77
6/17/04 at 8:13pm
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Originally posted by Orin_Quon
And MK still sells, because most fighting games nowadays are too deep for the average, lazy, button-masher consumer. MK games are easy to learn and they have blood. Instant money.
Actually MKA did the opposite, where it used to be a button masher, now you had to learn the combos. You couldn't just string together random punches and kicks anymore. Which admittedly took the fun out of MK, although having swords was cool.
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post #36 of 77
6/17/04 at 8:56pm
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Originally posted by YeLLoWsAmUeL
Actually MKA did the opposite, where it used to be a button masher, now you had to learn the combos. You couldn't just string together random punches and kicks anymore. Which admittedly took the fun out of MK, although having swords was cool.
Well, they tried. Didn´t succeed, though. MK3 and on were just "fake" games. Enough to make the casual players feel like they´re playing something more complex.
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post #37 of 77
6/17/04 at 9:00pm
To my knowledge, mortal kombat had a mythology to it in the first couple of games. I don't think anyone knows nor cares what it is now. So trying to make a movie now, in this day, means three words, straight to video, and all of these posts are moot.
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post #38 of 77
6/17/04 at 9:17pm
Where the hell is my Street Fighter sequel, though?
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post #39 of 77
6/18/04 at 12:48am
Not that it matters, but I think McWeeny said a long time ago that they aren't using his script.
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post #40 of 77
6/18/04 at 12:58am
Raiden has LEVERAGE!
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post #41 of 77
6/18/04 at 1:04am
The first two sucked so bad this is definetly heading into Worst Trilogy Ever.

except Lord of the Rings..
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post #42 of 77
6/18/04 at 1:27am
Say what you will about part 2 but part 1 was actually a good movie. It got the mythology right and up until that time, the best video-game to movie ever (actually I think it still is but what kind of honor is that?). All we can hope for with part three is that it is a trainwreck of epic proportions. And please please please bring back the animalities .
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post #43 of 77
6/18/04 at 6:50am
Really like the first MK (it did pretty much everything right). This one better be at least better than the second. Have some decent fx work or something.

Also don't waste the best characters. Whats the point of having Rain if he isng going to toss lightning? Ermac if he isnt going to throw people around with his mind? Noob Saibot if he's just going to be some basic ninja in black???

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Well, they tried. Didn´t succeed, though. MK3 and on were just "fake" games. Enough to make the casual players feel like they´re playing something more complex.
Fighting games were best when it was all about the fireballs and dragon punches and "GET OVER HERE". This memorizing 100 button presses in a row shit isn't anything close to "fun".
Haven't actually enjoyed an Mk game since Mortal Kombat Trilogy, but I've got high hopes for Deception (BARAKA IS BACK!!)

- Fate
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post #44 of 77
6/18/04 at 6:54am
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To my knowledge, mortal kombat had a mythology to it in the first couple of games. I don't think anyone knows nor cares what it is now. So trying to make a movie now, in this day, means three words, straight to video, and all of these posts are moot.
Yea the mythology is really fucked now. What the hell ever happened to Shao Khan? These new "boss" characters are terrible (Quan Chi, Shinok, bleh.....)

The MK3 storyline could have made a really cool movie, with Outworlds armies taking over the world and hunting down Earths best fighters. Pretty unfortunate what we actually ended up with.

- Fate
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post #45 of 77
6/18/04 at 7:02am
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Originally posted by EL duderino
So if Roger Christian does turn out to be the director of Mortal Kombat 3, does that mean Drew and Scott are obligated to rewrite the script in order to better suit the "sensibilities" of Christian as a director?

Think of how chafed and red that brown-eye would get by page 50. I guess that's the benefit of having a co-writer on board so you can switch off every fifteen pages or so, waiting until the other writer has finished off another king-sized greaser courtesy of Long John Silver's and El Pollo Loco. Hell, those two places are worth a good twenty six wipes a piece...
Dude... our work on this thing finished two years ago. Threshhold's been doing whatever they've been doing ever since.

They can't afford me now. All I have left to do is show up at the first show, first day, completely hopped up on goofballs so I can cheer at the magnificent horror of the thing.
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post #46 of 77
6/18/04 at 7:49am
DREW YOU GOT MY TERMINAL PREMIERE TICKETS!!!!!!!!!!!!
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post #47 of 77
6/18/04 at 7:56am
It'd be great if you got a screen credit. You'd never hear the end of it.
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post #48 of 77
6/18/04 at 8:22am
Well most of the people who would "scream" at Mori about it allready know he co-wrote it. I was the one who discovered it almost two years ago in imdb.com and when i told the guys in the AICN chat room they were all laughing at me callimg me crazy. Yeah thx, the crazy-o... tsk tsk

Anyway even if the movie bombs and it is totaly crap I don't see why we should blame Drew, he co-wrote it simply for money a long time ago and he never took it seriously(as much as i know).

Anyway Drew hows your "zombie-theme park" script going? Is it sitting on the shelf or are we ever going to see it happening?
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post #49 of 77
6/18/04 at 9:06am
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Originally posted by thx777b
Anyway even if the movie bombs and it is totaly crap I don't see why we should blame Drew, he co-wrote it simply for money a long time ago and he never took it seriously(as much as i know).
I didn't mean we should blame Drew, and I certainly won't. It's not like Roger Christian has a spotless record. I simply meant that Mori would get shit for it, regardless of how much or how little of what he wrote actually made it to the screen.
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post #50 of 77
6/18/04 at 10:23am
You have a point there mate...
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