Karl Urban Says MORTAL KOMBAT II Is the "Most Action-Packed Fun I've Ever Had"
Mortal Kombat II has wrapped production and Karl Urban, who takes on the role of Johnny Cage in the movie, recently opened up about his experience shooting the film. He said on Instagram that it was “the most action-packed fun I’ve ever had” on a film. So, that’s cool! It’s good to hear when actors have fun on they projects that they work on. Urban shared a photo of himself along with the following comments:
That’s a picture wrap for me & Johnny Cage on Mortal Kombat 2 ! Massive thanks to our incredible crew , cast and phenomenal stunt team . Hands down the most action packed fun I’ve ever had on a film ! Can’t wait for y’all to see it . Special thanks to everyone offset who helped make this time here on the Gold Coast Australia such a pleasure .
The movie is directed by Simon McQuoid, who also directed the first film, Urban is joined in the film by Lewis Tan as Cole Young, Jessica McNamee as Sonya Blade, Josh Lawson as Kano, Tadanobu Asano as Lord Raiden, Mehcad Brooks as Jax, Ludi Lin as Liu Kang, Chin Han as Shang Tsung, Joe Taslim as Bi-Han/Sub-Zero, Hiroyuki Sanada as Hanzo Hasashi/Scorpion, and Max Huang as Kung Lao.
New characters for Mortal Kombat 2 include Martyn Ford as Shao Kahn, Ana Thu Nguyen as Queen Sindel, Tati Gabrielle as Jade, Adeline Rudolph as Kitana, Desmond Chiam as King Jerrod, Damon Herriman as Quan Chi, and C.J. Bloomfield as Baraka.
The script was written by Jeremy Slater, who previously worked on Moon Knight and The Umbrella Academy. When previously talking about the sequel, Slater said:
"I feel like the gore in Mortal Kombat is awesome and it's part of what people come for, you always have to find that balance between fun gore and gross gore, right? Because there's times where you rip someone's heart off or the best kill in the first movie is Kung Lao's spinning hat just sort of slicing her in half and that's the perfect example of fun gore because it's disgusting, but everyone laughs at the same time, right? You want to make sure that everyone is sort of laughing at the sort of audacity of the gore and they're not sitting there sort of sickened by close ups of dripping entrails and visceral and things like that.
“There's a tongue in cheek aspect of Mortal Kombat in terms of the violence and in terms of the gore, there's a little bit of winking at the audience and saying like, ‘Yeah, we know this is ridiculous, but it's really fun and we're all in on the joke together.’ And when you find the right balance, I think that's where you get moments like that incredibly bloody first battle that opens the first movie with score with Hanzo sort of tearing through all the assassins or you get the hat gag or things like that. So we're looking at how do we emulate those gore moments from the first one that were really, really successful and got huge audience reactions and how do we give the audience even more this time around."
Mortal Kombat II has yet to set a release date.