Board Thread:Mortal Kombat (Alternate Timeline)/@comment-26050254-20161107025545/@comment-422853-20161128013939

MortalKnightsForever wrote: The idea of a new Mortal Kombat movie is exciting, if done right. There's a lot of potential.

I just hope that they stay close to the by-now-more-layered history and storyline, but at the same time I hope Liu Kang isn't the protagonist again. Personally, I find him to come off unfortunately bland when he's not corrupted/a Houan zombie/a revenant. It would be nice if they could adhere closely to elements of the canon that weren't established at the time of the first film, while also putting their own spin and creative interpretation on it (just hopefully not like MK9... Ugh).

I remember hearing a rumor at some point that they wanted to make a movie focusing on the younger Sub-Zero, Kuai Liang. I think that could be really awesome. Maybe even Johnny Cage or Cassie Cage. They might even be able to bring back the cast from the first movie and ignore the second movie if they want to go the MKX route, but if it's a reboot that may not be likely.

I think Kuai Liang would be one of the best choices for a movie protagonist because his adventures and character development in the original timeline were very interesting. It's a real shame that so much of that got snuffed out in the new timeline, but at least he more or less became sort of the same by MKX. If they were to adapt the storyline of MK1 for this reboot like the first film or something, they'd pretty much have to have Liu Kang as the endgame protagonist. As far as the original films I didn't mind it since Robin Shou got me to like Liu Kang more, while at the same time, Johnny Cage stole the show with his victories against Scorpion and Goro. Cage vs Goro was actually better than how Goro got beat in the real canon, imo. As such, I'd prefer this new movie to still have some different fights than what the games' story had, to maintain some element of surprise and things.

Never heard about that Sub-Zero movie rumor, but sounds interesting. And yeah, this has pretty much been implied to be a reboot, so unlikely that any of the original cast would return, much as I'd love to have Lindon Ashby as Johnny Cage again. Cassie should be stayed away from as far as possible tho, imo.