James Wan was announced as a producer in August 2015 and McQuoid was hired as director in November 2016. Pictures and New Line Cinema began developing a new film, with Kevin Tancharoen serving as director from a script written by Oren Uziel in the wake of their short film Mortal Kombat: Rebirth (2010). Concerned for the safety of his family, he seeks out a clique of fighters that were chosen to defend Earthrealm against Outworld.įollowing the critical and commercial failure of Mortal Kombat Annihilation (1997), a third Mortal Kombat film languished in development hell for a period of nearly two decades. The film follows Cole Young, a washed-up mixed martial arts fighter who is unaware of his hidden lineage or why the assassin Sub-Zero is hunting him down. It stars Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Tadanobu Asano, Mehcad Brooks, Ludi Lin, Chin Han, Max Huang, Joe Taslim, and Hiroyuki Sanada. The film serves as a reboot and as the third installment of the Mortal Kombat film series. Mortal Kombat is a 2021 American martial arts fantasy film co-produced and directed by Simon McQuoid (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Greg Russo and Dave Callaham, based on the video game series of the same name created by Ed Boon and John Tobias.
