Serious Mortal Kombat trilogy by grounding it to a degree
The Great Shaolin Tournament
The Emperor's Tournament
The Great Shaolin War
500 years ago, The Great Kung Lao (Jet Li) defeats Shaolin monk, Shang Tsung (Miyavi) to become the third Shaolin Champion. Until, Tsung brings in a new challenger. The Nephilim, Prince Goro. Half angel/half human who stands at 12ft tall and has four arms. After Lao's death, the Shaolin monk Shang Tsung takes up black magik and brings a darkness into the Shaolin tournament.
Present day, Sonya Burke (Jessica Chastain) with her partner Jackson Briggs (Anthonie Mackie) are on the hunt for Kano (Tom Hardy), a American-Japanese who is extremely proficient with martial arts, knives and blades, he is the hitman for the Black Dragon Yakuza. Liu Kang (Ng Chin Han) is a rebellious Shaolin monk and is training for the tournament coming up, he enters along his cousin Kung Lao (Donnie Yen), an elderly Asian beggar brings together his team consisting of Johnny Cage (Tom Hiddleston), the best P4P MMA Fighter/Hollywood actor, In the year 1997, a ninja belonging to the Lin Kieu, an outcast clan due to their use of black magik attempts to assassinate Hanzo after a slight insult, but ends up burning his house down, killing his wife and daughter and giving him life-long third degree burns. The incident sends him mad, as wears dirty yellow straps around his typical ninja garb, Hanzo enters the tournament wearing the skull of his wife as a mask plated in gold and made to breathe from, it also sticks to his face. Not apart of any clan, Sub-Zero takes offense to his ash-covered, primal, yellow colors, mocking his clan's blue colors. Beneath his yellow straps, a small spring-loaded-like "spear guns" which can take out an eye, or the heavier one which can bring a person towards you. With no name. He is given the name The Scorpion. Reptile is a demonic creature summoned up by Shang Tsung to spy on the fighters from Raiden's clan.