NetherRealm Studios have announced the upcoming release of the second Fighter Pack DLC for their hit fighter title Injustice 2. As with Fighter Pack DLC 1, The Fighter Pack 2 DLC will bring three new and familiar characters to the game and will come as part of the Injustice 2 Ulitmate Edition or be able to […]
How do video game movies get made?
It’s been a question on the mind of video game fans around the world for many years: why are most video game movies the way they are? Well a new book titled Lights, Camera, GAME OVER!: How Video Game Movies Get Made from Flickering Myth’s Luke Owen looks behind the scenes of some of the […]
Affleck signs on for Batman trilogy, Thanos in Avengers 4, first look at Domino in Deadpool 2 and more – Daily News Roundup
BATFLECK TRILOGY BACK ON THE CARDS? Just prior to San Diego Comic Con, the trade papers began to report that Warner Bros. and DC were having concerns with Ben Affleck as Batman in their DC Extended Universe, but the actor himself dismissed the rumours. According to a new – and very dubious – report, Fortress […]
Exclusive – Mortal Kombat: Annihilation director talks about the James Wan reboot
James Wan is currently in Australia and England shooting DC Extended Universe outing Aquaman, but another adaptation on his plate is the live-action reboot of Mortal Kombat. Wan was announced as the producer on the movie in August 2015, with Simon McQuoid in talks to direct. Not a lot has been said on the movie […]
Mortal Kombat reboot writer says his script was The Avengers with “over the top violence”
Mortal Kombat was one of the first video games to get translated onto film, and depending on who you ask, the result wasn’t half bad (that’s not counting the infinitely worse Mortal Kombat: Annihilation). Two decades later, and we are now hearing about the franchise returning to the big screen in the form of a hard […]
The Highest Grossing Video Game Movies of All-Time
Luke Owen keeps track of the biggest video game movies… To go along with our Highest Grossing Superhero Movies of All-Time list, I felt we should also keep tabs on the video game movie adaptation. Since their debut in 1993, they’ve mostly come with a bad reputation, bad reviews and often bad box office results. […]
The Mortal Kombat movie reboot finds a director
It looks like the long-gestating movie reboot of the hit video game series Mortal Kombat could finally be moving forward, with Variety reporting that commercials director Simon McQuoid is in talks with New Line Cinema to helm the film. Mortal Kombat is being produced by James Wan (The Conjuring), who took over the project following […]
James Wan says the Mortal Kombat reboot is still “cooking away”
We’ve not heard much from Aquaman and The Conjuring 2 director James Wan since he was announced as the new producer of the Mortal Kombat reboot, but he has finally broken his silence. “It’s still cooking away,” Wan told IGN. “With that particular project, that’s a really cool property that I loved growing up as a […]
Christopher Lambert says Mortal Kombat reboot is actually a sequel and will feature time travel
A couple of weeks ago we brought you a rather dubious rumour / fan-casting for New Line Cinema’s long-gestating Mortal Kombat reboot, and now we’ve got another report which seems equally outlandish, although this one comes from the mouth of actor Christopher Lambert, who portrayed the thunder god Raiden in the 1995 original. According to […]
Vin Diesel, Megan Fox, Jason Momoa, Ronda Rousey and Liam Neeson rumoured for Mortal Kombat reboot
Take this bit of news with a pinch of salt, but there are some rumours floating around the Internet that the Mortal Kombat reboot has a cast in place – and it’s pretty star studded. According to website Frag Hero – who claim this story to be confirmed – Vin Diesel (Guardians of the Galaxy), Megan Fox (Teenage Mutant […]
