Mortal Kombat Director Teases Shaolin Monks Remaster

It's a day ending in "Y," which means Mortal Kombat fans are once again wondering when the day will come that they can play Shaolin Monks on modern hardware, either via a Remaster, a Remake, or even as simple as a port. However, that day has not yet come, and the title was absent from last year's Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection.

It doesn't help, then, that series director Ed Boon is once again teasing a return to Shaolin Monks.

Taking to Twitter, one half of Noob Saibot asked fans whether they'd like to see Shaolin Monks or Mortal Kombat 9 (2011) remastered first.

So far, 21,355 votes have been cast with 1 day and 16 hours left on the poll. Perhaps most surprising is the fact that the vote total is a lot closer than one would expect, as Shaolin Monks just barely has an edge over MK9, 51 to 49 percent.

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Of course, that could change in the coming hours, but given how well-received Mortal Kombat 9 is, and how it practically saved the franchise, I'd be hard-pressed to believe it'd lose in a landslide.

Shaolin Monks Is On The Minds Of Everyone, Including Mortal Kombat's Live-Action Actors

It was only 10 days ago that Max Huang, who plays Kung Lao in the current Mortal Kombat live-action movies, revealed that he would like to see a big-screen adaptation of the iconic spin-off.

"Something that I personally would love to explore would be a Shaolin Monks spin-off," Huang said in an interview. "Ludi (Lin) has talked about it. I've been talking about it. It would be great to see those two characters' origins and how they were raised by Bo' Rai Cho and trained and exploring the White Lotus. Yeah, the lore of Mortal Kombat is huge."

It also isn't the first time that Shaolin Monks has been brought up by Boon, who teased a return to the spin-off all the way back in 2022. A year before that, it won a poll for most-requested remastered.

As for MK9, it is still active online to this day, and is also locked to older hardware, so its return would be equally welcomed. Still, few things are as popular to MK fans as Shaolin Monks.