MORTAL KOMBAT II Poster Reveals First Look at Karl Urban as Johnny Cage
We’ve got two posters to share with you for the upcoming film Mortal Kombat II and one of them gives us out first official look Karl Urban as Johnny Cage.
Urban previously said that it was “the most action-packed fun I’ve ever had” on a film, which wads great to hear. He added:
“I 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.
