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[Astrex]

Sub Zero is going to be awesome!

If you manage to pause the video at 7:12 you get a quick glimpse of Sub-Zero.  He looks like Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Cobra Commander

Holy shizzle! I completly missed that! I really love Sub Zero always have had a hard on for him... I hope he's not the bad guy.

I love the Human Element to MK this time around instead of them being superhuman and freaks etc etc 

[nCogNeato]

I really love Sub Zero always have had a hard on for him... I hope he's not the bad guy.

I think he will be the bad guy.  At least the villian to Scorpion's anti-hero. 

[GamerMan316]

Mortal Kombat video chap has film vision

The director of the live-action Mortal Kombat short that had the internet all aflutter earlier this week has said it was shot in two days - and that he has a vision for a proper film based on the beat-'em-up material.

Kevin Tancharoen is best known for directing music videos and the 2009 version of Fame, but he told movie site Collider that his original loves were karate, comic books and videogames.

"It took over a two-month span of time," he said of the short, in which Jax and Sonya Blade are seen interrogating Scorpion about a recent spate of killings. "I shot this whole thing in two days on two Red cameras that were donated to me with a group of friends who all believed in the cause...

"I know that there's definitely a handful of purists that have their opinions on the mysticism and the mythos of Mortal Kombat. But I do have an answer for that: this is just a prelude to what my movie version would be," he continued.

"Now, in a movie version, I am going to have that mysticism there, but it has to be done in a very tasteful way. I wouldn't like it too campy or too cheesy. I know this is a weird analogy, but it's the best one I can think of right now. It's kind of like when in Harry Potter, there's two universes that coexist with each other.

"There's the real world, and then you get on the train and then you go to Hogwart's, and that's where all the magic is. It was actually kind of similar in the first Mortal Kombat, too. They had to get on the ship and go to the island, and that's where all the crazy stuff happened."

Yesterday Jeri Ryan, who played Sonya in the short, explained that it was "made for the director to sell [rights-holder Warner Bros.] on his vision for a re-imagined MK film".

[nCogNeato]

Yesterday Jeri Ryan, who played Sonya in the short, explained that it was "made for the director to sell [rights-holder Warner Bros.] on his vision for a re-imagined MK film".

What a genious way to secure a job.  Get the internet to promote your vision before you even have a contract.  Far more effective than 'pitching' scripts.   

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Yesterday Jeri Ryan, who played Sonya in the short, explained that it was "made for the director to sell [rights-holder Warner Bros.] on his vision for a re-imagined MK film".

What a genious way to secure a job.  Get the internet to promote your vision before you even have a contract.  Far more effective than 'pitching' scripts.   

bring on the future of movie making and long live the power of the internet the last free nation.

[GamerMan316]

Saints Row film to launch with next game

THQ's executive vice president of core games Danny Bilson has said that the publisher intends to do a Saints Row film.

Not content with that, he hopes that it will launch on the same day as the third Saints Row game, which doesn't have a date yet but should be out before March 2012.

Speaking in a conference call this week recorded by GameSpot, Bilson said a "major filmmaker" will be involved.

At the beginning of last year, rapper 50 Cent said he was optioning Saints Row for a movie. Fiddy had his own game Blood on the Sand published through THQ.

Saints Row 2 is famous for being good and quite fearsomely insane, and also stuck two fingers up to Grand Theft Auto on a regular basis.

THQ has been pushing its "transmedia" efforts recently, having signed a deal to produce a two-hour TV movie based on Red Faction, which could turn into a TV series if successful.

[GamerMan316]

[nCogNeato]

That has to be a mockup.  No way the voice actors would actualy portray the characters in a Hollywood production.  I do like the poster though.  Very Valve-esque.   

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Saints Row film to launch with next game

THQ has been pushing its "transmedia" efforts recently, having signed a deal to produce a two-hour TV movie based on Red Faction, which could turn into a TV series if successful.

Red Faction FTW!

[GamerMan316]

That has to be a mockup.  No way the voice actors would actualy portray the characters in a Hollywood production.  I do like the poster though.  Very Valve-esque.   

Yep, it's a mockup, just thought i'd post it.   

[nCogNeato]

That has to be a mockup.  No way the voice actors would actualy portray the characters in a Hollywood production.  I do like the poster though.  Very Valve-esque.   

Yep, it's a mockup, just thought i'd post it.   

You tease.   

[GamerMan316]

Akira Movie To Be PG-13?



Well, The Dark Knight was PG-13.

It has been confirmed that Albert Hughes of the Hughes Brothers directing fame will be helming the project without his brother. It was previously thought that Allen Hughes would be taking the lead on the project. According to the film's producer Andrew Lazar, he is not, and Albert will be flying solo this time.

Originally released in 1982, Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira debuted. The manga become a feature film anime, directed by Otomo. Akira changed the way many outside Japan thought about Japanese animation. Over the years, Akira has gotten several video game adaptations, including 1988 Famicom game as well as a PS2 title.

Instead of trying to cram all of 2,000 plus pages of the Akira manga epic into two hours, Warner Bros. is planning on releasing the film in two parts. Each part would cover three volumes of the manga. Albert Hughes, however, seems only interested in directing the first part.

"I'm not into sequels," he said in a recent interview. "I don't even know if I wanna be around for the sequel. I'm just focusing on the first movie."

It was also thought that the guys who wrote the first Iron Man flick would be adapting Akira. Things have changed, and scribe Albert Torres has been brought on to pen the script. He has a couple projects in development, but his only produced screenplay is Henry Poole Is Here.

[GamerMan316]

IGN's Top 25 Animated Movies of All Time

and not a crappy Shrek film among them, quite right too

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IGN's Top 25 Animated Movies of All Time

and not a crappy Shrek film among them, quite right too

I would take Shrek over The Lion King, Also no Simpsons movie?

[GamerMan316]

IGN's Top 25 Animated Movies of All Time

and not a crappy Shrek film among them, quite right too

I would take Shrek over The Lion King, Also no Simpsons movie?

I'd have the first Shrek film maybe, the sequels are awful.

I think The Simpsons Movie gets a lot of stick because it's basically an extended episode, it doesn't feel like a movie, still bloody funny though.