New Line's recent Mortal Kombat reboot didn't exactly achieve a flawless victory at the box office, but it performed well enough - especially as one of the first major Covid-era releases with a day-and-date streaming debut - to warrant a sequel, and producer Todd Garner recently took to Twitter to confirm that production is set to get underway in Australia this June.
At the end of the first movie, we got a pretty big hint that a potential sequel would introduce fan-favorite martial artist/Hollywood actor Johnny Cage, and it sounds like the studio has settled on a somewhat surprising choice to play the character.
According to The Wrap, Karl Urban is in final talks to play Cage.
Urban will be very familiar to CBMers, having appeared as Eomer in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Leonard "Bones" McCoy in Paramount's Star Trek movies, and Judge Dredd in the 2012 reboot. He can currently be seen as Billy Butcher in Prime Video's The Boys.
The first movie's surviving characters are all expected to return, but we will also reportedly see the debut of some new heroes and villains from the long-running video game series, including Baraka, Shao Khan, Sindel, Quan Chi and Kitana (click here for some character breakdowns).
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