Summary
- Mortal Kombat 2 is shaping up to be a more faithful adaptation, finally giving us the Earthrealm tournament.
- As such, it has a beefy roster of 20 familiar faces. And don't worry, Cole Young is taking a backseat.
- According to screenwriter and producer Jeremy Slater, fans loved the movie in early test screenings, reacting the same way he did during Avengers: Endgame.
The first of the new 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mortal Kombat movies was a dud, pulling in less than the original 1995 film at the box office with a gross of just $85 million, while also failing to win over critics who scored it an aggregate of 55 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Audiences were kinder to the 2021 reboot, but it was still controversial among long-time fans for 168澳洲ℱ幸运5开奖网:its focus on original character Cole Yo🤪ung, especially given the absence of series 𝐆staples like Johnny Cage.
Thankfully, the sequel is shapi♛ng up to be a more faithfuౠl adaptation, and according to screenwriter Jeremy Slater (Fan4stic, the live-action Deathnote, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire), the early showings were a major hit. "I am so excited for people to see the movie," he said in an interview with . "Iไt's been done for a while. We've been waiting for the right release date and waiting for 🐼the right window.
They were cheering and jumping out o🅷f their seats.
"I have been to those test screenings, which are full of Mortal Kombat fans, an💛d watching them react to it the way I reacted to Avengers: Endgame. They were cheering and jumping out of their seats. Every joke is landing and they are loving it. It's one of the greatest moments of my life. That's why you get into this business."
Mortal Kombat 2 Has A Rival To Roster The Games
Slater also revealed that the cast is comprised of 20 characters, just two shy of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mortal Kombat 1's base roster. Fighting in the long-awaited Earthrealm tournament, and joining the original film's line-up, which introduced us to Sonya Bꦏlade, Jax Briggs, Raiden, Sub-Zero, Scorpion, and several other iconic characters, we have Kitana (Adeline Rudolph), Jade (Tati Gabrielle), Quan Chi (Damon Herriman), Shao Kahn (Martyn Ford), and of course, Johnny Cage (Karl Urban).
Certain characters who had more complete arcs in the la♛st movie won't have "quite as much" a focus ♉in Mortal Kombat 2.
"I was adamant that we had to have this tournament in the movie," Slater said. "We can't make people wait another movie and then be like, 'Come back for the finale.' It was finding a structure to make the tournament as satisfying as you want it to be because this had years of build-up. It's figuring out who the individual matches are going to be, which characters do you pair off for maximum emotional𓃲 impact, but also for the most dynamic fights. Then, also, what is the larger story you are telling beween the tournament?"
We don't have long left to wait before we see our favourites duke it out on the silver screen, as Mortal Kombat 2 hits theatres 🐼on October 24 later this year.
