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Mortal Kombat Star Josh Lawson on Initial Doubts Before Kano Casting
Mortal Kombat Star Josh Lawson on Initial Doubts Before Kano Casting
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Before actor
Josh Lawson was cast as the nefarious Kano, he didn t think much of it at first when he auditioned for the Warner Bros 2021 reboot of
Mortal Kombat. He was even more shocked to find out he got the part. The leader of the criminal syndicate and rival to Sonya Blade, Kano was part of the original seven when the original videogame hit arcades in 1992 by Midway Games. Since the game s release from creators
Ed Boon and
Finish Him! Mortal Kombat 1995 vs. Mortal Kombat 2021 May 7, 2021
Mortal Kombat finally released in theaters and on HBO Max a few weeks ago, which means everyone and their mothers has watched the latest iteration of the popular video game and spent the last week either blasting it as the worst film
ever made or one of cinema’s great masterpieces.
My take? It’s an enjoyable action flick with a few decent fight scenes marred by some bad performances and dialogue. But who cares when “the chick gets her gut blown out, and you can see her spine,” as one of my friends so keenly pointed out via text message?
Every Mortal Kombat Movie Ranked From Worst To Best
Shaun Munro reviews every Mortal Kombat movie from worst to best…
If the so-called “video game movie curse” has yet to be broken in earnest with a truly great movie adaptation, recent years have at least seen Hollywood making a more concerted effort to show these IP the respect they deserve.
The latest attempt to translate a hit video game to the cinematic medium is the long-gestating
Mortal Kombat – a table-clearing reboot following two live-action predecessors released in 1995 and 1997, and a standalone animated film from last year.
While few would call any one of the four films
April 29, 2021
THE WASHINGTON POST – The new
Mortal Kombat is exciting. It’s bloody, epic in scope, and all the costuming is on point.
The only question mark is, “I’m sorry, who is Cole Young?” Cole Young, played by the talented Lewis Tan, is the protagonist of this movie, a hard reboot of the cinematic universe for the 29-year-old fighting game franchise.
Mortal Kombat lore is packed to the gills with charismatic, likable and iconic characters; it seemed like a questionable choice to crowd the story with a new face.
“On the creative side of it, everyone wanted to bring something new to the story,” film screenwriter Greg Russo told