Ah, family: as a pop culture troupe, it can justify just about anything. Noble sacrifices, gangland purifications, to knock off a car from another car, while both cars also shoot harpoons at a third and fourth car, respectively—All of them can be narratively conveyed as expressions of our shared love for the people closest to us in our lives. (And sometimes we also hate motors.) We can now ‘pick out the backbone of a dude and probably show it to him’ to the list of affiliates duties, also, because the new Mortal Kombat the film is apparently all about the two big F’s: Family, and Fatalities. It is enough to warm one’s heart and then still pull it beating from the chest.
All this warm-blooded sentiment comes with permission of a profile of the upcoming video adaptation that was combined by Entertainment weekly today, talks to star Lewis Tan and director Simon McQuoid about their efforts to tackle the comedy again Mortal Kombat movie franchise. (The last theater MK movie, Destruction, dropped out of theaters in 1997.) And, sure, the 2021 Mortal Kombat movie is going to involve killing a whole bunch of people – which will make it the first movie in the series that actually embraces the game’s distinctive Fatality mechanic, which, if you have not checked in on Mortal Kombat in a minute, holy shit those things became bloody—But it will also be full of tender, human moments, like an unruly ninja Scorpion’s wife uses one of his kunai’s as a garden tool, before she is presumably squeezed into a medieval Japanese refrigerator to motivate his resentment against similarly dressed ninja nemesis Sub-Zero. There is also a touching search for identity and jointly focused Tan’s character Cole Young (a name that approaches the “Cade Yaeger” levels of “Only an action movie protagonist would call it” energy), an original character for the franchise that tries to find out why he is a Mortal Kombat logo drilled on his chest. (Our guess: a love night between his mother and an arcade box, many, many years before.)
It’s very simple, of course, but hey: Athe fight scenes sound at least cool. (We can also see photos of Sonya Blade, Kano and Jax—Played by Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson and Mehcad Brooks’ mustaches respectively – in EWexclusive photos from the film.)