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Kindred

Let Be Be Finale Of Seem
Cole is definitely about to kill Goro. That is a god damn shame. You can have a villain show up in a movie without instantly killing them.
I think a bunch of characters that will be introduced will be killed off quickly. I think the filmmakers realize they cant give every character a full on backstory and some of them dont have that much of a complex story in the game anyway (like Reptile for instance)
 

Art Lean

Kombatant
Poster was probably released in an area that doesn’t have HBOMax.
Like where I live on the tiny British Channel Island of Jersey! :cool:

Oh man this is going to be so good I can't wait! Let me just check the listings...

18087

Fuck. :mad:


You know I've just realised I've been cursed my whole life to never see Mortal Kombat at the cinema.

I remember seeing the trailer for Mortal Kombat in 1995 before Waterworld (ugh) and was desperate to see it, but here in Britain it was a 15 (no one admitted under that age, unlike in the US where you can go with an appropriately aged adult to see an R) so had to wait a round a year to get my dad to rent the VHS when it was finally released.

Mortal Kombat Annihilation was released in 1997, in February, just a few weeks before my 15th birthday in March. At last, MK on the big screen!!! Hell that was my plan for my birthday party that year... though when it finally came to my birthday, MKA had shockingly already left the cinemas which back in those days seemed ridiculous, I was certain films were meant to last for weeks if not months at the cinema! Had to wait a year again for the VHS... then immediately realised why it left the cinema so quickly. What a crushing disappointment that turned out to be. Was ultimately relieved I hadn't wasted my birthday on it, but hindsight's 20/20.

Finally 24 years later, after decades of development hell we finally get a new MK movie, to be released simultaneously online and in the cinema!!!

Except that online service isn't available outside America and our local cinema closed down because of Covid. Then the land got sold so it's going to be knocked down and will never reopen. And I'm on a tiny island so there's no other option.

Sigh.

Can't wait to watch it on a 720p pixelated stream from an Eastern European piracy site on my 13" MacBook air that keeps bombarding my desktop with Bongacams pop-ups every time I click anything on screen. :coffee:

Why does the world never want me to see Mortal Kombat on the big screen? :(
 
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Pizza

Thrill Kill
I don't think there's much reason to keep Reiko around, really. But Kabal and Goro could just get severly injured and return later in a sequel.
 

StormGoddess

Your mind tricks won't harm me!!!
I don't think there's much reason to keep Reiko around, really. But Kabal and Goro could just get severly injured and return later in a sequel.
There's always Quan Chi and his revenants as a plot device for returning dead MK characters for sequels.
 

NickDaGreek1983

Oh, my days !
Does anybody know WHERE on this planet are cinemas open?

Can each one of us here tell us about whether or not theaters are open in his country ?


In Greece, cinemas are closed up since October '20.
 

Art Lean

Kombatant
I don't think there's much reason to keep Reiko around, really. But Kabal and Goro could just get severly injured and return later in a sequel.
Oh my god... I've worked it out as to why Reiko doesn't have his makeup and what's going to happen in the sequel!!! :eek:

Reiko dies, but is brought back from the dead by Nightwolf's eagle Hana and during a melodramatic montage applies his famous harlequin eye makeup in the mirror to avenge the death of his beloved Mileena... and THAT's how he gets his makeup. Remember you read it here first! :cool:


18088

So beautiful, so tragic. :(
 

Barakall

Apprentice
I don't think there's much reason to keep Reiko around, really. But Kabal and Goro could just get severly injured and return later in a sequel.
indeed! Goro’s death in the first movie, particularly how easy it was after the nut punch, is still one that was just stupid and unnecessary.
 

Barakall

Apprentice
Wow now I can definitely appreciate this and it is weird, though the 1st movie proved he can be more of a subtle egomaniac. But with the heavy Asian origin focus, throwing in Johnny would’ve been odd and for sure in a sequel giving him a reason to jump aboard is much more fun. Watch the fans spin this into some racism anti-white woke argument and get all pissy.
 
After following most of the news on the movie, I figured why they left Johnny out for a rational reason and it's probably why we haven't seen others like Kitana, Jade, Baraka etc.

It seems like they're really set out to try something different because they want the movie to get it's feet wet first and handpicking only a portion of the roster can probably help them out with that.

Although, it does feel a bit weird having an MK story without him, but at the same time, after looking how well they planned and first introduced spiderman in the MCU from captain america: civil war, this could probably work out the same way in Johnny's favor.
 
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Kindred

Let Be Be Finale Of Seem
After following most of the news on the movie, I figured why they left Johnny out for a rational reason and it's probably why we haven't seen others like Kitana, Jade, Baraka etc.

It seems like they're really set out to try something different because they want the movie to get it's feet wet first and handpicking only a portion of the roster can probably help them out with that.

Although, it does feel a bit weird having an MK story without him, but at the same time, after looking how well they planned and first introduced spiderman in the MCU from captain america: civil war, this could probably work out the same way in Johnny's favor.
I found this article where Todd Garner (producer) mentions why Johnny cage isnt in the movie

"The reason we held back on Johnny Cage is because he's a very egotistical guy, he's a scoundrel, he's funny, he's bigger-than-life...and so is Kano. So are we going to have two guys competing and trying to [be funnier or more egotistical] or do you hold Johnny Cage because, God willing, we're able to do another one?" Garner explains. "Rain and Reptile? They both cloak and you don't want two cloaking guys; first of all, it's expensive and, second, they do the same thing. You unwind it that way, with people we can see later. There are also characters with such complicated backstories with other characters, you want to give them more service."

https://www.cbr.com/mortal-kombat-why-film-didnt-cast-johnny-cage/
 

Swindle

Philanthropist & Asshole
Oh my god... I've worked it out as to why Reiko doesn't have his makeup and what's going to happen in the sequel!!! :eek:

Reiko dies, but is brought back from the dead by Nightwolf's eagle Hana and during a melodramatic montage applies his famous harlequin eye makeup in the mirror to avenge the death of his beloved Mileena... and THAT's how he gets his makeup. Remember you read it here first! :cool:


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So beautiful, so tragic. :(
It can’t Reiko all the time.
 

StormGoddess

Your mind tricks won't harm me!!!
We’ve Seen the First 13 Minutes of MORTAL KOMBAT and It’s Flawless

Rosie Knight
Wed, March 17, 2021, 11:30 AM·8 min read


Mortal Kombat has been notoriously hard to adapt to film. In the ’90s, we got a brilliant B-movie; its faults included the wild casting of Christopher Lambert as Raiden. A few years ago, we got far closer to what fans wanted with Machinima’s limited web series. In 2019, it was announced that James Wan would be producing a Mortal Kombat movie, leaving us to wonder if this could be the one that gets it right. And for the first time we got look at what to expect. Spoiler averse readers beware: some surprises are in store!
Producer Todd Garner breaks down Mortal Kombat’s epic opening scene

During a sneak peek of Mortal Kombat, Nerdist joined a group of journalists to watch the opening of the highly anticipated video game adaptation. It was wicked. Beginning in feudal Japan, we find Hanzo Hasashi (Hiroyuki Sanada) and his family living in the Hasashi compound. Playing into one of the core tenets of Mortal Kombat lore, the opening sets up Hanzo’s rivalry with Bi-Han. You probably know the assassin by the name of Sub-Zero. Yes this is a Sub-Zero and Scorpion origin scene and it’s epic.
There’s everything you expect here: blood, gore, impressive weaponry. It’s exactly the kind of sequence Mortal Kombat fans have been dreaming of. The pair face down after Sub-Zero commits an unforgivable crime against the man who will become Scorpion. It’s a heartbreaking start to an iconic rivalry! And someone even goes to hell…
A fighter wields a sword in Mortal Kombat

A fighter wields a sword in Mortal Kombat
Warner Bros.
The opening smartly establishes one of the most important rivalries while also showcasing the film’s dedication to authentic fight choreography. Plus fight fans get a 13 minute fight between Sanada and Taslim which is cinematic magic. So why was this such an important place to begin? Producer Todd Garner explained.
“We had to start at the beginning, right? The game has come so far. The main characters have kids who are old enough to fight. So we couldn’t start now; we had to start at the beginning. Our goal was: how do you just be able to have somebody come sit down in a theater and watch this movie and not be completely confused by the unbelievable lore that Ed and John have created over 30 years?”
Garner explained that even though the team was aiming to make the movie accessible, this was still a vital part of the game and story. “That is such an integral part, emotionally to the Mortal Kombat lore in terms of it’s about family, it’s about clan, it’s about misunderstanding, it’s about two cultures clashing. Within 13 minutes you have romance, you have death, you have a tragedy, you have ice, you have a guy getting his head stabbed, you have someone getting taken to hell. So it sets up the spectacle, it sets up the emotion, it sets up the characters, and sets up the tone. It sets up fighting and it sets up fatalities in one scene.”
Here’s everything else we know so far about the promising project:
What is it about?

Fighters prepare in Mortal Kombat
Fighters prepare in Mortal Kombat
Warner Bros.
Directed by Simon McQuoid, Mortal Kombat will be a new adaptation of the popular fighting game. Greg Russo and Dave Callaham wrote the screenplay with the story by Russo and Oren Uziel. The martial arts-savvy cast means that it will likely be a serious action film. And the R rating means that we’ll undoubtedly get some of the game’s famous gore. And now thanks to an Entertainment Weekly feature we’ve got a clearer idea of what Mortal Kombat is actually about.
The piece goes into detail about some of the most vital and exciting parts of the game. It details the opening—the crucial piece of lore from the original games that we mention above. And one of the most exciting parts of this cast is the roster of martial arts stars. It’s definitely a big budget fight film with intense fight sequences.
Who’s in it?
Lewis Tan is Cole Young

Lewis Tan as Cole Young in Mortal Kombat
Lewis Tan as Cole Young in Mortal Kombat
AMC
Lewis Tan’s playing an entirely new character called Cole Young. Tan told Entertainment Weekly that Cole’s a “washed-up MMA fighter who used to be a champion, who used to believe in himself, who used to have a lot of hope in his career.” No longer.
Entertainment Weekly revealed that “Cole knows nothing of his heritage aside from the mysterious birthmark on his chest—in the shape of the Mortal Kombat symbol.” And that symbol leads Cole to meet some other key MK characters.
Joe Taslim is Sub-Zero and Hiroyuki Sanada is Scorpion
Sub-Zero and Scorpion in Mortal Kombat
Sub-Zero and Scorpion in Mortal Kombat
Warner Bros.
Action star Joe Taslim plays Sub-Zero, one of the core characters from the Mortal Kombat franchise. It’s an extremely exciting bit of casting as Taslim is a talented martial artist known for brilliant and brutal films like The Raid: Redemption and The Night Comes for Us.
In another exciting bit of casting, Westworld, Lost, and Message from Space star Hiroyuki Sanada will be taking on the role of Mortal Kombat‘s other most recognizable character: Scorpion. The connection between Scorpion and Sub-Zero runs deep and will likely play a key part of the narrative in the new film. Sanada was most recently seen being horribly wasted in Avengers: Endgame and it seems that Mortal Kombat will rectify that by giving him a meaty action role to luxuriate in.
Ludi Lin is Liu Kang and Max Huang is Kung Lao
Liu Kang and Kung Lao in Mortal Kombat
Liu Kang and Kung Lao in Mortal Kombat
Warner Bros.
You probably know him best from the underrated 2017 Power Rangers flick, but Ludi Lin was most recently seen in Aquaman and the Black Mirror episode “Striking Vipers.” This is a massive moment for Lin as Liu Kang is the main character in pretty much every Mortal Kombat game. Liu is the closest thing to a good guy in the world of Mortal Kombat. He’s the arch-enemy of the nefarious magical sorcerer Shang Tsung.
Max Huang is a stuntman and actor who regularly works alongside Jackie Chan. This is a powerhouse team up for two of Mortal Kombat‘s most important figures. Kung Lao is a former Shaolin monk whose ancestor was a great warrior. Lao though would rather not take part in the brutal fight to the death. But while he’s a pacifist at heart he’s also a stunning fighter.
Mehcad Brooks is Jax
Jax in Mortal Kombat
Jax in Mortal Kombat
Warner Bros.
Jax is a cybernetically enhanced super-soldier and special forces officer who works alongside Sonya Blade. Mehcad Brooks is a charming and talented actor. In his most recent role he portrayed mild-mannered Jimmy Olsen on Supergirl. We’re very interested to see how this one shakes out. Brooks definitely has the chops for the role and it’ll be fun to see him getting some more action in this R-rated movie.
Jessica McNamee is Sonya Blade
Sonya Blade in Mortal Kombat
Sonya Blade in Mortal Kombat
Warner Bros.
The original female Mortal Kombat character, Sonya Blade is a badass special forces officer who has been a part of the game since its first release in 1992. The actress bringing her to life last appeared fighting a giant shark alongside Jason Statham in The Meg. We can likely trust her to take on the mysterious evils of Mortal Kombat.
Josh Lawson is Kano
Kano

Kano
Warner Bros.
Many know Josh Lawson for his comedic roles in House of Lies, The Campaign, and Anchorman 2. But he signed onto the Mortal Kombat cast as Kano. He’s a vicious mercenary who often crosses proverbial and literal swords with Sonya Blade and Jax.
 

StormGoddess

Your mind tricks won't harm me!!!
-cont-


Tadanobu Asano is Raiden
Raiden and Tadanobu Asano side by side
Raiden and Tadanobu Asano side by side
NetherRealms Studios/Marvel Studios
Raiden is the literal God of Thunder (no, not that one). This inclusion confirms the film will likely be leaning into the more mystical elements of the Mortal Kombat series. Asano is a radical Japanese actor with an impressive list of credits. But Americans probably know him best as one of Thor’s Warriors Three. This is a perfectly wonderful bit of meta-casting.
Chin Han is Shang Tsung
Chin Han and Shang Tsung side by side
Chin Han and Shang Tsung side by side
Warner Bros/NetherRealms Studios
Probably best known for his role in The Dark Knight, Chin Han is taking on the iconic role of Shang Tsung. The character stands as one of the biggest bads in the world of Mortal Kombat. The evil sorcerer who oversees the inter-dimensional battle, only Shao Khan out-evils Shang Tsung. And Khan has yet to be cast. For now, Chin Han looks like he’ll be the antagonist of the new Mortal Kombat movie.
Sisi Stringer is Mileena
Mileena and Sisi Stringer side by side
Mileena and Sisi Stringer side by side
NetherRealms Studio/OUT Actingstudio
Newcomer Sisi Stringer will play Mileena, one of the most iconic characters in the game. A clone of her “sister” Kitana made by the sorcerer Shang Tsung, Mileena is a conflicted and violent woman. Her skills as an assassin match her brutality. We’re very excited to see whether this means that we might see Kitana, Jade, and Baraka in the film.
Will there be fatalities?
Sub-Zero using ice
Sub-Zero using ice
Warner Bros.
Thanks to the R-rating we already knew there would be gore and the Entertainment Weekly feature confirms that. “I wanted to make sure that everyone respected the material, the lore of Mortal Kombat, the fans and the love they have for this. Everyone was clear on it,” McQuoid said of developing the reboot. Respect for the material also meant leaning into what makes Mortal Kombat so popular after all these years. Blood has a lot to do with that.
When will it release?
Mortal Kombat movie poster
Mortal Kombat movie poster
Mortal Kombat arrives on April 16, 2021. You can catch it on both HBO Max and in theaters—if it’s safe to visit them!
Keep your eyes on this post. We’ll keep updating it as we get more news. Until then, practice those fatalities.
Originally published on August 30, 2019, with updates on January 15, 2021 and March 17, 2021.
The post We’ve Seen the First 13 Minutes of MORTAL KOMBAT and It’s Flawless appeared first on Nerdist.


 
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