Mortal Kombat director Simon McQuoid is again on the helm for the sequel Mortal Kombat 2, and whereas the combating game-inspired sequel wrapped manufacturing again in January of 2024 after a bumpy journey by the 12 months of the strikes, that they had to return for some reshoots final summer season. The anticipated component for this installment, in addition to the precise match in fact, is the inclusion of fan-favorite Johnny Cage, who will likely be portrayed by Karl City, who’s equally beloved.
Final week, Warner Bros. Video games and NetherRealm Studios added new pores and skin DLCs (downloadable content material) to the Mortal Kombat 1 online game, that are at the moment obtainable for buy on Xbox and Ps 5 platforms. The brand new skins are character designs from the upcoming Mortal Kombat 2 movie and may be utilized to Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Kitana, Johnny Cage and Shao Khan (who is named Normal Shao within the present incarnation). Whereas Scorpion and Sub-Zero’s designs look to be carried over from the primary film from 2021, now you can get full-body appears to be like at Shao Khan, Kitana and Karl City’s Johnny Cage within the sequel.
We’ve already gotten just a few peeks at these characters when some photographs have been launched a pair months again. The stills featured Karl City as Cage with returning characters Jax, Sonya Blade and Liu Kang, performed once more by Mehcad Brooks, Jessica McNamee and Ludi Lin. We additionally noticed Hiroyuki Sanada return as Scorpion, with a brand new peek at Adeline Rudolph as Princess Kitana and Martyn Ford as Emperor Shao Khan.
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 offered for the primary movie. Boon boasts that Cage’s introduction is “ridiculously hilarious,” and says it bought “some of the biggest laughs” from the early screenings of Mortal Kombat 2. In the meantime, director Simon McQuoid would attempt to discover a technique 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.”
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WB Video games, NetherRealm Studios
