True Blood
The relationship between movies and games has always felt frayed. There’s a sense that Hollywood doesn’t quite understand this medium of ours—and there are so many failed game-to-movie adaptations in the rear view that it’s hard to take a new one seriously.
The new Mortal Kombat movie, due this year, is… well, it’s not necessarily set to change that situation much. It’s not shaping up to be a movie with grand, serious ambitions, or Oscars twinkling in its eyes. But it does look like a film that actually understands its source material—not just in terms of story and characters, but in spirit.
“I said it to everyone who came on board ‘We are not changing the DNA [of ],’” explains director Simon McQuoid. “And the DNA is built out of a few different, really
