Get a have a look at Johnny Cage, Scorpion, Kitana and Shao Khan within the sequel to the 2021 Mortal Kombat adaptation.
Mortal Kombat director Simon McQuoid is again on the helm for the sequel Mortal Kombat 2, and whereas the preventing game-inspired sequel wrapped manufacturing again in January of 2024 after a bumpy trip by means of the 12 months of the strikes, that they had to return for some reshoots final summer season. The anticipated component for this installment, moreover the precise match in fact, is the inclusion of fan-favorite Johnny Cage, who shall be portrayed by Karl City, who’s equally beloved.
Entertainment Weekly has unleashed a small batch of recent photos from the upcoming online game adaptation. Whereas we’ve already gotten a have a look at City as Cage within the fake film poster for Uncaged Fury, we now see him within the flesh with returning characters Jax, Sonya Blade and Liu Kang, performed once more by Mehcad Brooks, Jessica McNamee and Ludi Lin. We see Hiroyuki Sanada return as Scorpion, however we now additionally get a brand new peek at Adeline Rudolph as Princess Kitana and Martyn Ford as Emperor Shao Khan. Take a look at the pics beneath.
Ed Boon, Mortal Kombat co-creator and head of gaming developer NetherRealm Studios, gushed about Johnny Cage making his grand entrance to the story, “You finally get to see Johnny Cage. His integration into the Mortal Kombat story and universe is a big part of what this movie explores. He’s a washed-up Hollywood guy thrown into this magical, ultra-violent thing. Karl, his depiction of Johnny Cage is different than our games in some ways. He’s adding his own flare to it, but I think it’ll feel fresh. There’s like a novelty factor in there.”
Cage will function the viewers surrogate for the match, simply because the character of Cole supplied for the primary movie. Boon boasts that Cage’s introduction is “ridiculously hilarious,” and says it acquired “some of the biggest laughs” from the early screenings of Mortal Kombat 2. In the meantime, director Simon McQuoid would attempt to discover a approach to make Cage full and never an all-out farce, “We wanted a character that wasn’t just completely silly, comic book…It’s a character that could instantly go there and become too light and throwaway if we were to lean too much into the kind of cheese. The casting of Karl Urban for that role allowed that character to have more depth.”
