MORTAL KOMBAT 2 Movie Producer Teases Karl Urban's Johnny Cage in New Photo
Mortal Kombat 2 movie producer Todd Garner recently shared a photo on social media offering a first teaser look at Karl Urban’s Johnny Cage. The photo only features Cage’s belt buckle that spells out “CAGE”.
Thanks to producer Todd Garner, we now have the first glimpse of the movie star-turned-Earthrealm protector. As you can see below, Karl Urban’s character is taking cues from his video game counterpart with a big belt buckle that spells out 'CAGE' and while it’s not much, it sure to put a smile of the faces of Mortal Kombat fans.
Urban is the perfect actor to bring this character to life, and it’s going to be a lot of fun to see how exactly he does that. Urban’s involvement is the only reason why I’m interested in this movie because the last one that was made was very disappointing.
Simon McQuoid, who directed 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."
Mortal Kombat 2 has yet to set a release date. Are you excited about seeing Urban take on the role of Johnny Cage?