MORTAL KOMBAT 3 Starts Production This Year?

This past week, Variety reported that Warner Bros. has bought most of Midway Games’ assets in a bankruptcy court fire sale for $33 million, including the rights to some of their most popular video games like MORAL KOMBAT, SPY HUNTER, and JOUST. WB’s plans for those properties are kept secret for now but they didn’t buy Midway development studios in San Diego and England.

Long before the despicable Hitman and the disappointing Max Payne hit theaters, the first 2 Mortal Kombat movies made history by being the worst video game movies ever made. I watched one of them again the other night on Cable, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and I couldn’t get past the first 2 scenes, it’s like I’d rather torture myself watching an opera or a ballerina show than watching another minute of that abomination they called movie

There’s a San Gabriel Valley Tribune article that firstshowing, about former actor and karate teacher Chris Casamassa, who was a stunt performer playing Scorpion in the original two Mortal Kombat movies. Cassamassa said that he’s set to start filming MORTAL KOMBAT 3 in September.
slashfilm reminds us of what director Chris Morrison told Moviehole on how MORTAL KOMBAT 3 was in the money stage and on the drawing board

If there’s anything that Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li taught us this year is that not a remake, not a prequel, not a sequel in the world could save video game-based movies.
Are you actually anticipating MORTAL KOMBAT 3?