Warner Bros. Pictures provided ComingSoon.net with the chance to chat with the director of the highly-anticipated Mortal Kombat movie! We took the opportunity to ask Simon McQuoid -who makes his feature debut- about whether the big tournament teased in this movie will make its way into Mortal Kombat 2 or beyond.
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A Midway Games’ video game classic gets a level up courtesy Warner Bros, producer James Wan and the rarely-captured patio of South Australia.
Based on the video game franchise of the same name created by Ed Boon and John Tobias, “Mortal Kombat” reboots the universe first introduced in cinema back in 1995 – complete with an imaginative new plot that catches up with the game’s vast array of fighters on day zero of their well-known jam.
An impressive, tension-doused opening set in 17
th Century Japan sees a group of assassins, led by the villainous Bi-Han/Sub-Zero (Joe Taslim), attack and kill members of a rival ninja gang, including Hanzo Hasahi’s (Hiroyuki Sanada) wife and son. Hanzo defeats the attackers before falling victim to Bi-Han.
The diverse international cast of
Mortal Kombat includes Joe Taslim as Sub Zero; Ludi Lin as Liu Kang; Jessica McNamee as Sonya Blade; Josh Lawson as Kano; Tadanobu Asano as Raiden; Mehcad Brooks as Jackson “Jax” Bridges; Chin Han as Shang Tsung; Hiroyuki Sanada as Scorpion; Max Huang as Kung Lao; Sisi Stringer as Mileena and Lewis Tan as the leading character Cole Young.
Inspired by Midway Games’ best-selling video game that was based on the original idea by Ed Boon and John Tobias, the film centers around MMA fighter Cole Young, accustomed to taking a beating for money, is unaware of his heritage or why Outworld’s Emperor Shang Tsung has sent his best warrior, Sub-Zero, an otherworldly Cryomancer, to hunt Cole down. Fearing for his family’s safety, Cole goes in search of Sonya Blade at the direction of Jax, a Special Forces Major who bears the same strange dragon marking Cole was born with. Soon, he finds himself at the temple of Lord Raiden, an Elder God and the prot
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