Mortal Kombat causing a real world stir

Remember the Mortal Kombat movies from the 90s? They were considered terrible but they still cleaned up at the box office when released, well the first one did anyway. The production company responsible for them is called Threshold Entertainment and they are sueing Midway Games to try and stop the franchise from being sold to Warner Bros who have made an offer of $33 million.

Lawrence Kasanoff from Threshold Entertainment is trying to block the sale by claiming that he owns the rights to the fighting game movie and TV spinoffs. He is obviously worried that Warner will begin producing more Mortal Kombat movies if it owns the rights to the game along with the rest of Midway. He also reckons that he owns the rights to some of the characters from Mortal Kombat which he believes that the movies made famous and not the games. Pretty bold statement there considering that the movies were only made because the games were so popular.

"The Mortal Kombat series, as it stands today, is far more a creation of Threshold and Kasanoff than of Midway," reads the lawsuit. "Midway's creative input was almost entirely limited to the videogames. On their own, the videogames provided only minimal back-story and mythology, and only flat, 'stock' characters. Kasanoff and Threshold were responsible for virtually all of the creative input that went into turning the videogame concept into a multimedia enterprise."

Frankly I hope he loses.