Quote (jadeoshbogosh @ May 25 2019 07:09pm)
There's no feasible way to make this not suck. Either they land an amazing writer, who pulls something out of their ass that has NOTHING to do with MK, but uses the characters and this ends up surprising people by not being total dogshit, or they try and make it a tournament / go into the backstories a bunch and it all goes straight to fucking hell. The villains and heroes in this series are cheesy as fuck, it's a great fighting game (not a fan of the latest installments tbh), but they need to stop making movies out of games.
I feel like the game to movie adaptation is possible, but they need to stop fucking around with this dumb shit. You could do a space thriller/horror type thing if you toned down on the action A LOT for like Deadspace. Or you could make something like Splinter Cell or Metal Gear Solid work, MGS with Reeves would be pretty sick.
They could do it like I've seen a few animes do it. Through backstory flashbacks.
There is a tournament where the fighters show up, and each episode highlights a fight in the tournament. A character's backstories are explored when that character's match in the tournament is featured in that episode.
As the tournament advances some characters have had more focus and they become your main characters, whom you also learn previous connections for through the flashbacks as well.
Season 1 finale a huge connection is shown that links characters together
Season 2 the flashbacks stop and the plot only moves forward
This is like an episode format though.
I don't think there is a good way to do a movie.
This post was edited by FroggyG on May 25 2019 11:26pm