It apears to me that was solely because of race but then they had too come up with this excuse to do some damage control. And i'm painfully aware films like this rarely get a sequel.
And don't even get me started about the possibility of Stryker's appearance in the movie, especially with his signature one-liner
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ah yes because the role of mass murdering assassin or evil world ending threat are noble positions that only the righteous minority's can fill! at best you can say jax get's a pass if you want to break stuff down into overly simplified stupid race roles but no one else does.
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What the hell is he on about? Cage was never the hero, neither in games nor movies. In the 90's flick he was both a supporting character and the comic relief, while Liu Kang carried the protagonist's mantle. Are these guys not familiar with the source material?
For what it's worth, Lewis Tan is a fine actor for the part they described, so I don't think it will ruin the movie, but in principle shit like this irks me. A lot.
Now you see it. Now you don't.
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you didn't read the full interview did you? the interview wasn't about why Johnny wasn't in the movie it was all about why they won't with a new character instead of using an old one. Johnny's race had nothing to do with him not being in the movie it was only one of multiple factors why he wasn't made the main character.
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Ya no one should be surprised, but also no one is going to go to the actual link and read that they chose cole so they could have a fresh view and not massively change the back story of an existing MK character there just gonna read that one out of context quote about race and get upset.
they could do both at the same time but as quotes from different interviews show they wasn't to avoid an ego class between both Kano and Johnny being the comic relief and would like to give Johnny a bigger role if they can do more after this movie.
“The reason we held back Johnny Cage is he is a very egotistical guy. He’s a scoundrel. He’s funny. He’s bigger than life… and so is Kano,” producer Todd Garner had said during a presser, picked up by Gamespot. “So you go, ‘Alright, are we gonna just gonna have two guys competing to [see who can] out-funny each other and out-ego each other in this movie? Or do you hold Johnny Cage back?"I want to make a sequel, and I've now got Johnny Cage, which hasn't been used in the first one," Garner said (via Comicbook.com).
"So I have a big stick and carrot that maybe they'll let me have a Johnny Cage real presence in the second one. And secondarily, when you think about Mortal Kombat, if you just think about the patina of the movie, it has a very Asian feel to it. And I early on felt uncomfortable having a white male lead kind of lead that charge in the first movie."
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