Producer James Wan’s Mortal Kombat will feature R-rated fatalities!

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

Producer James Wan and director Simon McQuoid's live-action adaptation of MORTAL KOMBAT is set to shoot in southern Australia later this year. And today, the film's screenwriter, Greg Russo took to Twitter to let us all know that this new MORTAL KOMBAT will be rated R!

Since it's already been stated by other members of the team, I'm gonna put this one to bed. MK WILL be R-Rated and for the first time EVER, FATALITIES will FINALLY be on the big screen (and no I'm not gonna say which ones) You'll just have to wait for the movie & see!!! 😉

This news comes on the heels on THE RAID star Joe Taslim joining the cast as Sub-Zero!

Mortal Kombat is one of the most successful fighting franchises in the history of video games but I know the series best by director Paul W.S. Anderson's 1995 adaptation starring Linden Ashby, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Robin Shou, Bridgette Wilson, Talisa Soto, and Christopher Lambert.

That film's synopsis went like this:

Lord Rayden (Christopher Lambert) handpicks three martial artists — federal agent Sonya Blade (Bridgette Wilson), Shaolin monk Lui Kang (Robin Shou) and action movie sensation Johnny Cage (Linden Ashby) — and mentors them. After intense training, Rayden transports the trio to Outworld, the site of an inter-dimensional fighting tournament. There, the three humans must defeat the demonic warriors of the evil Shang Sung (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) — or allow Sung to take over the Earth.

This new take on the game supposedly centers on 

a male protagonist who becomes drawn into the interdimensional tournament, and who begins to realize his true potential as a result of the experience.

MORTAL KOMBAT will be the feature directorial debut for award-winning commercial director Simon McQuoid, who will be working from a screenplay written by Greg Russo and based on the video game franchise. Wan is producing the film with Todd Garner. Larry Kasanoff, E. Bennett Walsh, Michael Clear, and Sean Robins serve as executive producers. The flick is currently in pre-production and is set to begin filming in Australia on September 16th before being unleashed in a theater near you on March 5, 2021.