Mortal Kombat Reboot To Be Like An "R-Rated Avengers"

So in keeping up with the current trend (because it's working sooo well!) Hollywood is going to give us a rebooted Mortal Kombat movie that they are describing as an R-Rated Avengers...of course, you probably already picked up on that from the title of this post, right?  I have to admit, I loved the first Mortal Kombat movie.  I was a HUGE Christopher Lambert fan after watching Highlander and he was hilarious as Lord Rayden.  The sequel, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, was horrible.  Won't even talk about it here.  If you had to gauge the reboot against the previous films, I hope that it'll be at least better than Annihilation.

New Line Cinema announced back in 2011 that a reboot was in the works, and that Oren Uziel was going to be writing the screenplay.  While on a recent press tour to talk about his latest movie for Netflix, Shimmer Lake, Uziel spoke with Collider about his efforts on penning the reboot six years ago, and had this to say about the script:

“Well, and again I don’t know what remains of this, but I know that it was going to be—it’s almost like if you took The Avengers, or if you took a storyline like that and set it in a sort of hard-R, over-the-top violence and hard-edged world of Mortal Kombat. It was a little bit like that, it was a little bit like a Wanted-type story that brought together a bunch of these characters and just pulled zero punches, and had a tone that was still fun but very dark.”

This makes sense...I mean, comparing it to the first Avengers film.  They basically have the same storyline.  A group of heroes that have never worked together, butt heads, eventually come together as a group to fight a common evil.  See?  Almost identical.  As far as the R-Rating goes, does this really surprise anybody?  Look at how violent the video game is!  If they don't make it an R-Rated film, they might as well not even bother making it.  Uziel also talked about the script that he wrote in the past tense, so we may not even get that particular story for the film.  Regardless of which script that they decide to use (and since it's a movie based on a video game, which usually doesn't translated very well into a movie!) let's just hope that it turns out better than Street Fighter and Mario Brothers!