Ah, family: As a pop culture trope, it can justify pretty much anything. Noble sacrifices, gangland cleansing, tearing a car from another car, while both cars also fire harpoons at a third and fourth car, respectively– they can all be narrated as expressions of our shared love for the people closest to us in our lives. (And sometimes our hatred of it cars.) We can now add “ Pull out a guy’s spine and show him, probably ” to that list with dutiesalso because the new Mortal Kombat apparently film is all about those two big F’s: Family and Fatalities. It’s enough to warm someone’s heart and then, still beating, rip it off their chest.
All this warm-blooded sentiment comes courtesy nf a profile of the upcoming video game adaptation that was combined by Weekly entertainment today, talk to star Lewis Tan and director Simon McQuoid about their attempts to reboot the long-comatose Mortal Kombat movie franchise. (The last theatrical MK movie, Destruction, dropped out of theaters in 1997.) And, sure, the 2021 Mortal Kombat film involves killing a whole host of people – making it the first movie in the series to embrace the game’s signature Fatality mechanic, who, if you haven’t checked in Mortal Kombat within a minute, holy shit those things has become bloody– but it will also be full of tender human moments, like uncovered ninja Scorpion’s wife uses one of his kunai as a gardening tool just before she is supposedly shoved into a medieval Japanese refrigerator to motivate his afterlife long grudge against similarly dressed ninja nemesis Sub-Zero. There is also a moving search for identity and connection centered Tan’s character Cole Young (a name approaching ‘Cade Yaeger’ levels of ‘Only an action movie protagonist would be called this’ energy’), an original character for the franchise who tries to figure out why he has a Mortal Kombat logo birthmark on his chest. (Our guess: An amorous night between his mom and an arcade cabinet, a lot, many years earlier.)
It’s all very silly of course, but hey: AAt least the fight scenes sound cool. (We also get to see photos of the filming of the film on Sonya Blade, Kano and Jax– played by Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson and Mehcad Brooks’ mustache respectively – in THAT‘s exclusive photos from the movie.)