Mortal Kombat (2021) Pitch Meeting

[Music] so you have a movie for me yes sir i do mortal kombat oh that's the game where you mash a bunch of buttons and then somebody's spine explodes and you need a bit of therapy that's the one sir so i figure since the game is still super popular we make a movie about it it has been a while since we tried that so what happens in this thing we're gonna start the movie in 1617 japan right and sub-zero's gonna show up and kill scorpion's family oh extremely rude very impolite for sure and so in chinese sub-zero's gonna be like hey i ended your bloodline you sucker and scorpion's gonna be like i'm japanese i have no idea what you're talking about but let's fight oh boy so then they do fight and sub-zero ends up stabbing scorpion real bad and then leaving oh bad guys love leaving before making sure their enemy's really dead yeah and so if he had stuck around he would have seen that scorpion was crawling towards his hidden baby and then turns into fire and disappears as of the bloodline is still going exactly and then after that really intense first scene everything's going to kind of go downhill from there sure if we start strong we'll have people's attention and we could kind of stop trying story-wise from there on out so we're going to meet this not very good mma fighter named cole young right oh i don't remember him from the game that makes sense because i made him up oh you did because this way the audience is gonna have someone to identify with you know someone who's learning the rules of the world at the same time as them i mean there are like a hundred mortal kombat characters can't we just pretend like one of them is learning about this world for the first time we could but instead we're gonna spend a bunch of time developing this guy and his family they're gonna take screen time away from the characters that fans came to see oh most definitely a ton of them well okay then so cole is actually a descendant of scorpion and he has this little dragon birthmark on him and he keeps seeing flashes of scorpion when he looks in the mirror okay and because of this mark sub-zero's gonna show up and try to kill him oh no but then this guy jax is gonna show up and he's gonna be like hey you gotta go find sonya blade and don't stay with your family cause dark forces will murder them sounds like solid advice it is and so then sub-zero rips off jax's arms and leaves before making sure he's dead so that's like this guy's whole thing it is so then cole goes to see sonia blade and she has a whole wall of exposition to show him i mean she's all equipped for this exposition dump so what does cole learn well there's this big tournament between a bunch of realms and this bad guy shang tsung wants to kill all the champions before the tournament because he's a big fat cheater so what decides who's a champion oh anyone with a dragon mark is a champion and either you're born with it or you kill someone who has it so if you kill someone who has a mark you automatically get it exactly that's what happened with this criminal guy kano that sonja captured so like if a 95 year old senile grandpa accidentally runs over a champion he will then have to fight to defend the earth realm yeah i guess so well let me ask you something can we make that movie instead well i kind of worked hard on this one fair enough so what else happened so anyway kano knows where this guy raiden has a temple so they all head to that general area okay and then this guy lou kang shows up and he's like it's my job to find champions and i found you guys i mean sounds like they're pretty much there he didn't really do any of the work yeah well he's gonna take credit for it well good for him so then this raiden guy is gonna be like all right you all have this thing called arcana it's like a super power you gotta unlock it and that'll help you in the tournament okay okay but sonia doesn't have a mark but she still gets to hang out oh he lets her hang out raiden sounds like a pretty chill guy he's not oh okay so they start training a whole bunch and kano he unlocks a laser beam eyeball he's real happy about it how does he manage that by arguing about egg rolls what but then things aren't really working out for coal because he's the worst so raiden is like all right you got to get out of here cole go back to your family and he's like all right i'm going home now bye but there are still dark forces coming for him because of the mark right so he goes back to his family but his old thing about going was so that they'd be safe yeah he forgot about that part so he goes back to his family well okay then but while he's back home this big monster goro is going to be sent to kill him oh i remember goro he was like a big boss guy gonna be tough to beat him actually it's gonna be super easy barely an inconvenience oh really yeah see when cole's family's in danger that's when he unlocks his superpowers so he defeats goro no problem oh so he becomes scorpion now he gets a cool little outfit made entirely a plot armor okay kind of seemed like you were building up to him becoming scorpion yeah that may have seemed like the cooler and more logical point to build towards but instead coal is going to transform it to coal with a cooler sweater sure that may as well happen anyway so meanwhile kano betrays everybody and lets the bad guys into raiden's temple oh no so they start kicking everybody's butts and that shang tsung guy grabs this guy kung lao what's he gonna do to him well this one guy's like oh he's about to get his soul sucked oh getting your soul sucked don't say it oh getting your souls please please stop it's just that's kind of my thing every meeting i say that something is tight i know it's just kind of my catchphrase i'm gonna feel weird all day if i don't get it out no i know it's just sometimes it's random but sometimes it's kind of gross so maybe just get that out later when i'm gone oh getting it out later when you're gone is tight okay so then what happens well then raiden teleports all the good guys to this white void where the bad guys can't go but there's a white void where the bad guys can't go why didn't they train there because there's this whole thing where raiden's not allowed to intervene but he's intervening now he is yeah okay so the group is like listen up guys we need to fight these bad guys again but this time we gotta win how what's changed we'll see the movie's almost over so all the good guys are gonna be much better fighters now okay great also that jax guy had little robot chicken arms but now he has big big big robot arms how did that happen magic magic gave him robot arms magic gave him robot arms that's right so then one of the good guys is like hey raiden you can teleport anyone anywhere right he can do what he can teleport anyone anywhere so he's like okay i'm gonna teleport these bad guys to various locations and then we'll fight them boy doesn't he teleport the bad guys into a volcano or to the bottom of the ocean okay so see that would be an instance where he couldn't intervene but he can separate them with teleportation so they're defeated in battle that's right so does he teleport each bad guy to a different location and have all the champions gang up on that person and just kind of work his way through the line like that no see that's a way he wouldn't be able to intervene oh i'm very unclear on how this guy's allowed to intervene so what does he do well he sends them all to like 1v1 fights because that's like the game kind of that's like the game kind of it is so then sonia is going to defeat kano and get her superpowers immediately how come she gets her superpower at the same time as her mark i don't know fair enough and then sub-zero sub-zero's gonna freeze cole's family which is maybe something that people will care about maybe and then scorpion's gonna show up from hell and he's gonna be like get over here what did he take english lessons in hell he took some very specific english lessons in hell that's right so then they're gonna have this really cool fight while cole just assaults his frozen family in the background what and then they're gonna team up and manage to defeat him oh wow wow wow wow wow and so yeah that's about it what do you think wait so a bunch of the big bad guys were killed they were yeah so if we want to make a sequel we can't use any of those guys well we're going to say that death is just another portal so oh so none of this matters yet none of this mattered and we could just keep making more and more and more and more of these i mean let's not get crazy okay okay but what if we did get crazy though oh interesting oh yeah okay [Music] hey everybody ryan here that's me thanks for watching the video and if you liked it feel free to click the like button and the subscribe button and all you know buttons of that nature you can also leave a comment down below letting me know what other movies you want to see pitches 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Keywords: 2021, Mortal kombat, cole young, fatality, film, finish him, get over here, goro, jax, josh lawson, kano, kung lao, lewis tan, liu kang, pitch meeting, plot holes, raiden, ryan george, scorpion, screen rant, sonya blade, sub-zero, super easy barely an inconvenience, video game, screenrant

Id: 157_gef0P10

Length: 7min 44sec (464 seconds)

Published: Sun May 02 2021