Warner Brothers’ attempt to reboot the “Mortal Kombat” franchise may have hit a legal speedbump.
Larry Kasanoff’s Threshold Entertainment has filed a new breach of contract lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court claiming the company has a deal to develop the third “Kombat” movie but that Warners “has avoided communicating with Threshold and has in bad faith prevented Threshold from utilizing the interest they have in the” franchise.
The rights to the franchise were sold to Warner Brothers last year as part of the company buying Midway Games.
Threshold claimed that Midway’s work was restricted to making the “Mortal Kombat” video game, whereas Threshold was contractually responsible for fleshing out the characters and mythology in the first two films. As a result of Threshold’s work, the company claimed it received a grant of significant intellectual property rights, including the right to develop a third film in the franchise. That suit was resolved around the time that Warners bought the franchise.
But now, according to the latest lawsuit, Threshold has been reading reports that Warners is developing a new movie with Oren Uziel attached as screenwriter.
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