{"id":77717,"date":"2026-05-08T11:31:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77717"},"modified":"2026-05-08T14:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:37:11","slug":"mortal-kombats-bizarre-history-of-movie-and-tv-adaptations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77717","title":{"rendered":"Mortal Kombat’s Bizarre History of Movie and TV Adaptations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s beginning to feel like the late ’90s all over again. The latest entry in the uber-popular fighting game series, Mortal Kombat II<\/a>, is now in theaters, Street Fighter is getting a new movie<\/a> (that we can’t wait for based on the trailer), and Resident Evil<\/a> is being rebooted on the big screen too.<\/p>\n

In light of all these big developments, and with MK back on the big screen, we thought we’d look back at the franchise’s long, colorful and occasionally baffling history in film and TV. Check out our slideshow below or scroll down for a closer look at all the Mortal Kombat adaptations and how closely (or not) they followed the source material.<\/p>\n

Mortal Kombat (1995)<\/a><\/p>\n

The original Mortal Kombat movie<\/a> is widely regarded as one of the best video game adaptations to date. Which, granted, is a very dubious honor. Even so, the movie still stands as a solid example of how to bring the series to life in live-action. It presents a reasonably faithful retelling of the original game’s extremely barebones storyline, while drawing in elements of Mortal Kombat II and some of the backstory from the tie-in comics. Like many adaptations, it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s beginning to feel like the late ’90s all over again. The latest entry in the uber-popular fighting game series, Mortal Kombat II, is now in theaters, Street Fighter is getting a new movie (that we can’t wait for based on the trailer), and Resident Evil is being rebooted on the big screen too. In…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":77719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77721,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77717\/revisions\/77721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}