MORTAL KOMBAT 2 Set Photo Features Karl Urban Who's Playing Johnny Cage
Ed Boon, the creator of Mortal Kombat and the creative director of the upcoming Mortal Kombat 1 game, recently visited the set of Mortal Kombat 2. While there, he took a photo with Karl Urban, who is taking on the role of Johnny Cage in the film.
Cage will make his big debut in this next film, and Urban is the perfect actor to bring the character to life! This is our first look at Urban on the set of the movie giving fans an idea of what to expect. We’ll just have to wait a little longer before we see him in action.
I also included photos that Boon took with some of the other actors who are working on the film including Lewis Tan as Cole, Chin Han as Shang Tsung, Joe Taslim as Sub-Zero, Josh Lawson as Kano, and Jessica McNamee as Sonya Blade.
I’m a huge fan of the Mortal Kombat franchise, and while I was hyped for that 2021 movie, it ended up being super 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. With Urban on board this movie, I really hope the sequel is better than the first movie.