Mortal Kombat movie producer's "dream" is to do a Marvel with the famous fighting game franchise

UPDATE 6TH MAY 2021: You can rent the movie premiere of Mortal Kombat at home from 6th May, so we're re-publishing our interview with the filmmakers, below.

ORIGINAL 17TH MARCH 2021: As the new Mortal Kombat movie approaches (it's due out in the US at cinemas and on HBO Max on April 16th, and is "coming soon" to the UK), thoughts are turning to what's next. Is this promising-looking martial arts fantasy film a one-off? Or is it the start of something more?

Based on the recently-released trailer, Mortal Kombat looks right up fans' street. This is an R-rated movie - it's the first Mortal Kombat movie to get such a rating - and so there's plenty of gore. And there are even fatalities (Kano rips someone's heart out, as he does in the games). This is in keeping with the source material, of course. But it's a world (or should that be realm?) away from the cult classic 1995 Mortal Kombat movie - a film I love even now, over 25 years after it came out. That film was silly, stupid fun but its fight scenes had a cool factor kids who were way too young to be playing Mortal Kombat at the time - like me - lapped up.

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