Ah, family: as a pop culture trope, it can justify almost anything. Noble sacrifices, gangland purges, taking a car from another car while the two cars are also firing harpoons at a third and fourth car, respectively– all of them can be passed, narratively, as expressions of our love shared by the people closest to us in our lives. (And also, sometimes, our hatred of cars.) Now we can add “Tearing a guy’s spine and probably showing him” to the list of branches duties, too, because the new Mortal combat apparently, the film is about two big Fs: Family and Fatalities. It is enough to warm the heart and then pull it out, still beating, from your chest.
All this warm-blooded feeling comes courtesy off a profile of the next video game adaptation that was combined by Weekly entertainment today, talking to star Lewis Tan and director Simon McQuoid about his attempts to restart the comatose long Mortal combat film franchise. (The last theatrical MK movie, Annihilation, left theaters in 1997.) And, of course, the year 2021 Mortal combat movie will involve the death of a lot of people – which will make it the first film in the series to really embrace the Fatality mechanics of games, which, if you haven’t checked Mortal combat in one minute, holy shit these things got bloody– but it will also be full of tender and human moments, like when an undead ninja Scorpion’s wife uses one of her kunai as a gardening tool, shortly before being pushed into a medieval Japanese refrigerator to motivate her lifelong resentment against the similarly dressed ninja enemy Sub-Zero. There is also a touching search for identity and belonging centered on Tan’s character Cole Young (a name that comes close to the “Cade Yaeger” levels of energy “Only an action movie protagonist would be called that”), an original character in the franchise who seeks to find out why he has a Mortal combat birthmark marked on his chest. (Our guess: a loving night between your mother and an arcade cabinet, many, many years before.)
It’s all very silly, obviously, but, hey: ANat least the fight scenes look cool. (In addition, we can see the film shots about Sonya Blade, Kano and Jax– played by Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson and Mehcad Brooks mustache, respectively – in EWexclusive photos from the film.)