Theme: Whispers in the Forest
Jan 04, 2011 3:35pm by Fuzz in Mortal Kombat General Discussion
Fellow FDMK affiliate The Kombat Pavilion has decided to share with the MK kommunity a copy of the original Mortal Kombat movie script from 1994. According to Pavilion owner |{ombat, the original script has quite a few differences from the final cut of the movie. For example, there is a scene where Shang Tsung morphs into a cobra for an animality, and instead of Liu Kang hurling Reptile into the stone statue near the end of the movie, the two appear to be fighting in the Living Forest where Liu Kang throws him at a tree, resulting in Reptile becoming part of the forest itself (see below).
CAPTAIN
Yes, sir?
SHANG
Is it so difficult, Captain, to prevent
a noisesome female from disturbing me in
my quarters?
CAPTAIN
I... she... There were three of them.
SHANG
I?m impressed. You can count to three.
I was humiliated just now... forced to
apologize to a Being I detest. Do you
know how much I loathe apologizing,
Captain?
CAPTAIN
I?m sorry, sir. It won?t ever happen
again.
Kano loses interest in the fruit and stares.
SHANG
I believe you.
The Captain transforms into a huge rat! Then Shang blinks.
We hear the strange clamoring of many voices in anguish, chantlike, atonal... yet strangely musical.
WIDER
Shang transforms into an enormous cobra, coiling and rising until the hooded head brushes along the bulkhead, moving toward the rat/Captain, who squeals and cowers in a corner, his own rodent eyes transfixed by the hypnotic gaze of the serpent/sorcerer. The cobra hovers over the rat another long moment, then lunges...
KANO
swallows the bite of fruit in his mouth as he watches in horrified fascination. The squeals of the rat are now muffled...
Reptile tires to spew acid, but Liu twists his neck around and it sprays away from him. Reptile thrashes and changes hews four, five six times... then finishes a ghastly moonlight white, red eyes staring defiantly. Reptile tries to claw Liu?s eyes, squealing like a wild boar, but Liu grapples with him. The two spin and squirm across the forest floor, then Liu hurls him hard into the cleft of the ancient, blasted tree.
THE TREE
seems to hold Reptile in some invisible force field as he tries break away. Then, in the blink of an eye, his face and body are covered with rough bark, his hands reach out like branches, which then sprout leaves! Liu thinks its just another camouflage attempt.
If you have some free time and would like to read the script, you can download it in Microsoft Word format here.
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Posted Jan 04, 2011 10:58pm by UBA88
The script for the actual movie that was made is better. I could have done a better job.
Posted Jan 06, 2011 2:36pm by PsychoScorpion
Seem's kind of weird to me, like it would be hard to understand. Some parts seem pretty fucking stupid, like a Captain turning into a rat? What the fuck!
Posted Jan 06, 2011 3:42pm by UBA88
Seem's kind of weird to me, like it would be hard to understand. Some parts seem pretty fucking stupid, like a Captain turning into a rat? What the fuck
I wrote a five-page Mortal Kombat screenplay that was better than that. That script looked like some 7-year-old came up with it.
I wrote a five-page Mortal Kombat screenplay that was better than that. That script looked like some 7-year-old came up with it.
Posted Jan 06, 2011 7:36pm by Scorpion Lives!
Well remember they were trying to make available to a wide audience instead of making it good for a R/NC-17 audience....
