Larry Kasanoff, producer: I played the Mortal Kombatarcade game in their office for half an hour. In June 1993, Larry Kasanoff is catching up with friends at Midway Games’ offices, who are high on their new arcade sensation, ‘Mortal Kombat.’ Their follow-up, ‘Mortal Kombat II,’ was in the testing phase, and Kasanoff is stunned by his first look at the series, which had yet to hit home video game consoles.
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“YOU’RE FULL OF CRAP! IT’S JUST AN ARCADE GAME!” He saw a TV series, stage shows, albums and movies all in its future. He envisioned it as a phenomenon on the order of T2. But Kasanoff believed it was destined to be more than just a video game. It was bloody, hyper-realistic and already a sensation at the arcade. The guys at Midway showed Kasanoff Mortal Kombat, a new game they said would beat his T2 record. Among its crowning achievements was the T2arcade game, a slick rail shooter that broke records for Midway. He’d previously worked with James Cameron, turning Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) into a merchandising phenomenon worth millions. That journey began when producer Larry Kasanoffwas visiting some friends at Midway Games in June 1993. Mortal Kombatendured expensive reshoots, broken ribs and screaming executives during its journey from arcade to screen.
The film grossed $122 million worldwide and broke the video game curse as the first adaptation embraced by fans. So it was against all odds when Mortal Kombathit No. The campy Street Fighter (1994) fared better financially but was still years away from earning a cult following on home video. (1993) and Double Dragon (1994) were total bombs - despised by critics and fans alike. Video game movies may be a risky proposition today, but in 1995 they were seen as hopeless.
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