Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
I really worry about Shao Kahn. Apparently he will be played by that dude who always plays some super side character that appears on the screen for like 10 seconds during the entire movie and has like a couple of lines of dialogue. If they're gonna have Shao Kahn as a scenery character that just sits on a throne the entire movie, I'm gonna be pissed. On the other hand I don't trust Nathan Jones' ability to actually play a full character.
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"And I early on felt uncomfortable having a white male lead kind of lead that charge in the first movie"
"having a white male lead kind of lead that charge in the first movie"
"white male lead"
"white male"
There, did you got it now? the "i'll put it on the sequel" is a cop-out
you haven't seen the original movie have you?
this is the good guy cast in the original, you may notice there is no Kung lao, no scorpion, no Jax, no Kano. would you like to try again?
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So you still didn't read my post then? as I said race was a faction in not making him the lead but it wasn't a factor in rather he was in the movie or not. Johnny's role has never been to be the hero or the main character his role has always been that of comic relief on the side a roll that Kano is filling in this movie as they have said in interviews.
I've posted the reason a few times but for the reading impaired I shall again, right from the horses mouth.
https://www.vg247.com/2021/03/18/joh...-kombat-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?
as for the other's your guess is as good as mine as i haven't seen any statements released about any but Stryker but id guess many fall into the same one for Stryker.
But just because people’s favorite characters aren’t in Mortal Kombat doesn’t mean they won’t ever appear onscreen. “We don’t want to disappoint the fans,” Garner says. “That being said, there’s no possible way to make a movie where everybody gets what they want.”
But perhaps that’s something that can change in the future, should the film land with authority, paving the way for a Mortal Kombat Universe. And before you start joking about “SonyaVision,” just know, Garner is one step ahead.
“I would make WandaVision for Liu Kang and Kung Lao,” he says. “I would do a Stryker movie. I would do a Sonya and Jax movie and make it like Black Hawk Down. I’m not trying to fight fans. There’s legitimate reasons we did everything.”
Last edited by Lorgar Aurelian; 2021-03-20 at 12:04 AM.
Kano and Johnny as characters are absolutely nothing alike.
This stinks to high heaven as if theres been some rather deserved pushback from fans pissed that every single OG character is in the movie except one and race was mentioned multiple times as a factor why and now its time to come up with flimsy excuses why as damage control.
Even the 95 movie had all the OG characters from the game.
This just stinks
I mean there both big talking hammy egotist, with kano being on the hero's side atleast at the start there is a ton of personally overlap until they get to the obvious back stab.
as far as the interview goes it doesn't say any where that Johnny isn't in the movie because of his race or any thing reason its solely about why he's not the main character just like how they cover why liu kang isn't the lead. Race obviously isn't what's baring him from being in the movie as they could swap kano out with him as the wise guy and have no problem as there both white guys.
also the 95 movie both scorpion and subzero but fodder bad guys with no real character so sure it had all the OG's but when you don't develop them at all that really means nothing.