The original Mortal Kombat movie was a piece of shit  (the soundtrack wasn’t though!) – nothing new to movies spawned from video game properties. I would even go so far as to say the games themselves were shitty, keeping the youth chucking quarters in order to see Babalities more than any solid piece of programming. It’s heartening then, maybe, that someone loved these games so much they got a bunch of well-known actors together over a weekend to shoot a trailer-as-pitch for a reboot of the franchise. The video now sits with over four million views, but is that enough to get Warner Bros (the rightsholders) to take a second look? The New York Times talked to the man behind the trailer, Kevin Tancharoen, about how he came to produce the video and a total ignorance as to the studio’s warmth towards the unproject. One can…hope?

Mortal Kombat original theme