Summary
Mortal Kombat 2star Ludi Lin hypes the upcoming sequel and teases what audiences can expect from Karl Urban’s Johnny Cage performance. Based on the iconic video game franchise, 2021’sMortal Kombatmovie from director Simon McQuoid, who returns to helm the sequel, follows MMA fighter Cole Young (Lewis Tan) as he assembles a team of warriors to do battle against the enemies of Outworld.Mortal Kombat 2’s castfeatures a handful of actors returning from the first film, but is also set to introduce a number of newcomers into the mix.
In a recent interview withScreen Rantto promoteThe Art of Eight Limbs, Lin touches on his experience filmingMortal Kombat 2. According to the actor, filming on the sequel is still ongoing, and Urban, in particular, is really leaving it all on the table with his performance as Cage. Check out Lin’s comment below:
I hope you guys are ready for the next one. We’ve been shooting this one forever, I’m back in Australia still shooting MK 2. I was here for almost a year last time. Yeah, it’s gonna be pretty immense, everything is going to be bigger. The story’s going to be great. Karl Urban as Johnny Cage, I hope you guys are ready, because he’s going to blow your socks off.
Just from the experience that actors like Karl, actors like Nicholas [Hammond, his co-star in Art of Eight Limbs] brings on set… He mentioned that, in The Art of Eight Limbs, they really changed the script - started tweaking it - after they found out that they’d nailed an actor like him to play the role.
You can tell, as soon as he comes on it really fills out the entire movie, he fills out the role, just like Karl does with Johnny Cage. There’s just a level of expertise, there’s some toolbox, the essence that they bring to the role just adds another dimension to it. In both cases I really look up to actors like this that can really bring a movie to the next level.
Karl Urban’s Johnny Cage Could Take Mortal Kombat 2 To The Next Level
The First Movie Left Room For Improvement
2021’sMortal Kombatmovie featured a number of beloved characters from the video games, and also a lot of the violence that players have come to expect from this particular franchise. The first film introduces audiences to new takes on figures like Raiden (Tadanobu Asano), Jax (Mehcad Brooks), Sonya Blade (Jessica McNamee), Sub-Zero (Joe Taslim), and more, and was generally well-received by viewers for its portrayal of theMortal Kombatvideo game world. The film, for example, enjoys a strong 86% audience score onRotten Tomatoes.
TheMortal Kombatvideo game franchise was previously adapted into a movie in 1995, an adaptation that was generally very poorly received.
Although audiences tended to enjoy the film, theMortal Kombatcritics' reviewswere mixed at best. Commercially, too, the film underwhelmed, grossing only $84.4 million worldwide on an estimated budget of $55 million. Though the film was severely hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s evidently room for some improvement, andMortal Kombat 2could end up delivering.
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With his ongoing role asBilly Butcher inThe Boys, one of Prime Video’s most popular original shows, Urban has remained a popular figure in the modern entertainment landscape.Urban’s casting alone could be enough to draw some audiences toMortal Kombat 2, especially since his role as Butcher is similar in some ways to the character of Cage. With Adeline Rudolph joining as Kitana and Tati Gabrielle as Jade,Mortal Kombat 2will evidently be a bigger and bolder experience, and it could end up being a greater success.
Mortal Kombat II
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Mortal Kombat II: A sequel to the 2021 film Mortal Kombat, this movie continues the saga of Earth’s champions as they face new threats from the Outworld. Building on the original’s mythical universe, the film delves deeper into the lore of the Mortal Kombat tournament and its legendary fighters.
