Mortal Kombat (2021)

OU Ariakas · Mar 18, 2021

It should feel weird....he is not the hero of MK and never has been. He's part of the good guys' team. Why can you not leave an iconic character in and have him be part of the good guy team? These people are fucking delusional.

Cybsled · Mar 18, 2021

As long as they use him well later on, it’s fine. I’d rather they not overstuff the film. As is, we don’t know how much development the current roster is going to get and the trailer shows they have a lot of characters, so it’s already going to be thin I imagine

Scorpion
Sub zero
Sonya
Jax
Liu Kang
Kung Lao
Raiden
Shang Tsung
Goro
Kano
Mileena
Maybe Cabal and Reptile/Barraka? Quick cut shows some maybes for them getting killed
Shao Khan maybe (we saw the statue)

Plus you have new guy Cole taking up screentime

wormie · Mar 18, 2021

See if they said "There is no time for Cage, we have too many characters" then that would be kind of ok. But instead they want to score woke points so they can go fuck themselves.

ohkcrlho · Mar 18, 2021

nu_11 said:
Todd Garner (Producer, cuck) on why Johnny Cage isn’t in the movie.
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"I think a lot of video game movies fail - this is just a theory, I could be wrong, but this is just my gut feel - because they don't respect the material enough," director Simon McQuoid tells us.

Big Phoenix · Mar 18, 2021

7 years ago!

But somehow the bad white guy stays in...

a c i d.f l y · Mar 18, 2021

Kano and Sonya are your token white folk in what is otherwise an Asian Kung fu movie. That's how action movies worked in the 80's and 90's. A lack of Johnny Cage doesn't bother me. He's a cool character, but let's be honest, he sucks and no one played him save to nut punch people.

Ambiturner · Mar 19, 2021

a c i d.f l y said:
Kano and Sonya are your token white folk in what is otherwise an Asian Kung fu movie. That's how action movies worked in the 80's and 90's. A lack of Johnny Cage doesn't bother me. He's a cool character, but let's be honest, he sucks and no one played him save to nut punch people.

Literally the best reason to play any of the characters

j00t · Mar 20, 2021

Johnny cage has also become much less of a serious character. He's the comedic side character which might not fit the tone of the movie at all.

a c i d.f l y · Mar 20, 2021

White male, popular actor, ego maniac. Shit, perfect subject to massacre brutally. I'm sure they could fit that in somewhere. That they haven't is good news.

Cybsled · Mar 21, 2021

j00t said:
Johnny cage has also become much less of a serious character. He's the comedic side character which might not fit the tone of the movie at all.

That's actually a good point. This film already has Kung Lao and Kano, both of which tend to do the comedy routine in the MK games in addition to Johnny.

It would be kind of meta if in the 2nd movie, the reason he shows up is because he got canceled for doing/tweeting some stuff, so he joins the MK crew to help rehabilitate his public image.

nu_11 · Mar 22, 2021

j00t said:
Johnny cage has also become much less of a serious character. He's the comedic side character which might not fit the tone of the movie at all.

That would be a perfectly acceptable answer if they had said that, but they didn’t. The Producer had to make it about Johnny Cage being a straight white male.

j00t · Mar 22, 2021

nu_11 said:
That would be a perfectly acceptable answer if they had said that, but they didn’t. The Producer had to make it about Johnny Cage being a straight white male.

well, the producer can say whatever he wants. the director is the one who clearly has the passion for this thing. as far as THAT kind of nonsense goes, the director seems to have his head on straight. obviously we'll see when it releases but i'm not expecting much wokeness at all, really.

Nirgon · Mar 22, 2021

If they made Jax white would that be celebrated

Id hope that was at least considered, right

Chukzombi · Mar 22, 2021

i lost excitement for this some after that woke shit by the producer. why fighting has to be progressive i'll never know. Bloodsport will remain the best fighting competition movie of all time.

Xevy · Mar 22, 2021

Seems like Kano is going to be a ruthless Johnny Cage with the jokes and shit. I guess that's okay, but I liked Johnny Cage's atittude of "what the fuck? Yeah, alright lets do it!" to every absurd thing he saw in the shadowlands or whatever. I mean he fucking nut punched a 4 armed murder monster. What a hero. Just make him a white Nicaraguan and throw him in!

Malakriss · Mar 24, 2021

Mortal Kombat Movie Aims to Push R-Rating to the Limit, Without Becoming 'Unreleasable' - IGN

Mortal Kombat director Simon McQuoid has detailed the extent of the brutality in the R-rated reboot of the film series.

www.ign.com

Animosity · Mar 30, 2021

Release date for this was pushed back another week to April 23rd.

Malakriss · Mar 30, 2021

Since all the bigger movies hopped behind Top Gun in July the simul-releases from HBO can spread out and at least try to maximize some theater revenue. Godzilla comes out now and the Saw spinoff in May so they spaced Mortal Kombat in between.

jayrebb · Apr 5, 2021

New teaser trailer

Springbok · Apr 5, 2021

Been playing a ton of MK11 (the best fighting game I've played in a long, loooong time) and it's getting me hype for this. The casting is pretty good as well, and I'm continuing to love the straight to home HBO MAX movie model. Just need to find some actual good home popcorn.

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