Christo­pher Wing­field Mor­ri­son, a. k. a. mink, will obvi­ously do Mor­tal Kom­bat 3. What has this guy done before? Accord­ing to IMDB he has directed Into the Sun, star­ring Steven Sea­gal, and Full Clip, star­ring Busta Rhymes. Whatta whop­ping list of A-class movies. Any­way, there’s a Moviehole report stat­ing that the project is a “re-envisioning(if that is a word) of the Mor­tal Kom­bat fran­chise from top to bot­tom”. Appar­ently, the Pro­duc­ers are in the process of work­ing out their deals with the stu­dio and arrang­ing their financ­ing. After that is squared away “all cast­ing options will be explored”.

Drew McWeeny said on AICN that he hasn’t heard from the pro­duc­ers for years now even though IMDB still men­tions him as a writer. I won­der if there will be a con­nec­tion with the next install­ment of the video game which should be announced this year. This ver­sion will be set after the events in MK: Armaged­don and will fea­ture a com­pletely new char­ac­ters, sto­ry­lines and fatal­i­ties. So, both the movie and the game will start with a clean slate. At least accord­ing to the infor­ma­tion that’s avail­able right now. Hm. I won­der if Christo­pher Lam­bert will return as Lord Rayden …

Against bet­ter knowl­edge I watched that movie last week. It seems like I was right when I said ear­lier that I don’t trust peo­ple say­ing Boll actu­ally did some­thing right. I have to admit though that the movie was bet­ter than I expected. It has a cheap look and feel and it was quite rem­i­nis­cent of the Eragon movie which too sucked big time. But then, I didn’t expect any­thing else. It’s just the same as with all Boll movies. The music often was plain dis­tract­ing and I wished for a remote with a work­ing mute button.

In the Name of the King is loosely based on Dun­geon Siege; unfor­tu­nately, the film had lit­tle to do with the game. The spe­cial effects were pretty cheesy although I liked the way wiz­ards can travel if need be. The depicted land seemed bleak and quite depress­ing. The enemy – the krugs – looked very bad; I could eas­ily dis­cern the cos­tumes. As far as the act­ing is con­cerned, I won’t go into details. It was hor­ri­ble. To be hon­est, I felt like I was watch­ing a workprint. That’s a shame. Still, more edit­ing efforts might have turned Boll’s lat­est flick into some­thing watch­able. If only …