Our First Have a look at Mortal Kombat II Is Precisely the One You Wished

When individuals consider the video game Mortal Kombat, a couple of iconic characters immediately pop to thoughts. Scorpion and Sub-Zero, after all. Raiden. Sonja. Liu Kang. Principally everyone from the first game. And whereas a number of of these characters have been within the 2021 movie adaptation, a major star was missing… till now.

Mortal Kombat II, the sequel to the 2021 remake, opens in October and our first look is right here. However it’s not a nonetheless from the film or perhaps a poster for the film itself. It’s a film poster from the world of the film, for the one and only Johnny Cage. He’s performed by none aside from Karl City of Dredd, Star Trek, and The Boys fame. Take a look.

For anybody taking part in catch-up right here, Johnny Cage is a Hollywood actor turned Mortal Kombat contestant from the unique 1992 online game. The 2021 film, starring Lewis Tan (Cobra Kai), Hiroyuki Sanada (Shogun), and others, ended with a tease of Tan’s character Cole Younger (invented for the film) saying he’s going to Hollywood to seek out Cage. So, all of us knew a sequel would function the character. Urban was cast in the role in 2023 and now, lastly, we now have our first look.

The earlier movie was truly fairly superior, significantly better than anybody anticipated it to be. It has enjoyable motion, nice reverence for the sport, is superbly shot, and may be very, very violent. That’s why regardless of it solely being a reasonable hit throughout its pandemic launch, Warner Bros. determined to make this sequel. That movie’s director, Simon McQuoid, is again, as are a lot of the surviving solid members. All of which you get from the credit on this poster, which breaks the phantasm of this being only a poster for Johnny Cage’s Uncaged Fury. No, it’s actually the teaser poster for Mortal Kombat II, and it’s coming October 24.

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