MORTAL KOMBAT 2 Director Shares a New Teaser Photo From The Set
The director of Mortal Kombat 2, Todd Garner, has shared a new photo from the set of the film and it teases Scorpion’s return. The character was played by Hiroyuki Sanada in the first film, and of course, the sequel was going to bring this classic franchise character. You can check out the photo below which features the characters’ harpoon-like weapon called The Kunai.
I wish I was excited about this sequel, but that first film that was released was a huge disappointment. It’s a shame that the studio doesn’t hire filmmakers that would actually know what to do with the franchise.
Simon McQuoid, the director of the last film, is back to helm the sequel, and the script comes from 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."
The cast for the film also includes Karl Urban as Johnny Cage in the film, Lewis Tan as Cole, Chin Han as Shang Tsung, Joe Taslim as Sub-Zero, Josh Lawson as Kano, and Jessica McNamee as Sonya Blade.
Mortal Kombat 2 has yet to set a release date.