Karl Urban To Play Johnny Cage in MORTAL KOMBAT II
Karl Urban has landed a fun role that he’s going to be great in! He will be taking on the role of Johnny Cage in New Line’s upcoming film Mortal Kombat II. Even if the movie sucks, at least we’ll get to watch Urban play Johnny Cage!
Simon McQuoid, who directed the 2021 film, will return to helm the sequel, and the script comes from Jeremy Slater, who previously worked on Moon Knight and The Umbrella Academy. I was not a fan of that last Mortal Kombat movie that was made. It just felt lazy to me. But who knows, maybe the sequel will be better. The post-credits scene teased that Johnny Cage would be coming in the sequel.
We have no idea what the sequel will entail, but Lewis Tan, who played Cole Young in the last film, says he’s been "training [his] ass off" for the new film. He also teased that the sequel is going to be “absolutely insane. Way bigger.”
Slater also previously shared his unique approach to the franchise, saying:
"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,'" Slater continued. "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."
Johnny Cage is a brash and arrogant action movie star and martial artist and he is one of the most popular characters in the franchise to date. Are you excited to see that Karl Urban is playing this character!?
Source: The Wrap
