How did the studio let this happen?

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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Mortal Kombat: Annihilation

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That_Other_Guy1 — 10 years ago(July 23, 2015 08:07 AM)

With they first movie They built a successful vidoe game movie that pleased fans, viewers, critics, and made buckets of cash at the BO.
So for the sequel they recast most of the oringinal actors, hire a first time director, and approve an apparenty terrible script??
Why not take some of that 35 million which was not a bad budget for 1997 and hire some proven writers, get paul back to director or atleast a proven director, and pay the oringinal actors enough to come back?
This movie even on paper aside from the larger budget looks like they tried to make the worst sequel possible for a successful movie.

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tito-the-titan — 10 years ago(September 03, 2015 03:02 PM)

Nobody knows for sure what happened in part 2. Threshold blames New Line for the disappointing reception, talking about forced release dates, limited budget, no understanding of anything.