A brand new movie poster for Mortal Kombat 2 has been launched, giving a primary have a look at Karl City’s Johnny Cage.
“Uncaged fury” reads the poster, with City posing as Cage sporting iconic shades in entrance of an explosive background.
The discharge date continues to be listed as “coming quickly”, although as beforehand reported the movie is predicted to reach in October this yr.
The movie will probably be a direct sequel to 2021’s Mortal Kombat, a movie Eurogamer described as “boring”. It begins with a pair of ninjas who go on to develop into Sub-Zero and Scorpion, however the story finally focuses on a model new character: Cole Younger (Lewis Tan).
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The sequel, then, will add City as Cage in addition to Adeline Rudolph as Princess Kitana. Rudolph beforehand starred in Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and 2022 Resident Evil TV collection, led by Lance Reddick.
Rudolph’s Sabrina co-star Tati Gabrielle (Uncharted, The Final of Us Season Two) may even star as Kitana’s bodyguard Jade.
City, after all, performed Éomer within the Lord of the Rings trilogy, in addition to the likes of Leonard McCoy within the Star Trek reboot movies, Decide Dredd in Dredd, and Billy Butcher in TV collection The Boys.
Hopefully the inclusion of extra iconic characters on this new movie will increase its credibility with followers.
Fittingly, Johnny Cage is an motion movie star turned fighter, initially impressed by Jean-Claude Van Damme – who then voiced the character in 2023’s Mortal Kombat 1 recreation. That explains the motorbikes within the movie poster.
Eurogamer described Mortal Kombat 1 as a “false begin within the race for reinvention” in our evaluation. It is since acquired a number of updates with further characters.
