Mortal Kombat remake to be directed by commercials director
New Line has selected a director for the new version of Mortal Kombat, which will be based on the popular fighting game series. According to Variety, this post was suggested by Australian Simon McQuoid, who previously worked on commercial advertising. His assets include advertising campaigns for PlayStation, Halo games, Range Rover and many others. He has no experience in full-length cinema. The movie is produced by James Wang, who directed such popular movies as "The Conjuring" and "Fast and Furious 7." The timing of the project has not been specified at the time of this writing. Recall that the game "Mortal Kombat" was released by Midway Games in 1992. The gameplay boiled down to the fights of characters endowed with various supernatural abilities. A distinctive feature of the series has always been the brutality of the so-called "fatalities" - crushing blows that opponents inflict on each other. The game proved to be very popular and spawned many sequels. In 2015, Mortal Kombat X was introduced to fans. Fighting became the basis for the movie of the same name in 1995, as well as a series called Mortal Kombat: Legacy, which aired from 2011 to 2013. The Topic of Article: Mortal Kombat remake to be directed by commercials director. |
