Oh, family: as a pop culture trope, it can justify almost anything. Noble sacrifices, band purges, detaching one car from another car while both cars also shoot harpoons at a third and fourth car, respectively—All of them can be passed on, narratively, as expressions of our shared love for the people closest to our lives. (And also, sometimes, our hatred towards cars.) We can now add “Rip a boy’s spine and show it, probably” to this list of affiliates homeworktoo because the new mortal Kombat film apparently deals with the two big F’s: Family and Fatalities. All you have to do is warm your heart and then pull it out, still beating, from your chest.
All this hot blood the feeling comes from courtesy orf a profile of the next video game adaptation that was combined by Entertainment Weekly today, talking to star Lewis Tan and director Simon McQuoid about their attempts to restart the long coma mortal Kombat movie franchise. (The last theater MK movie, Annihilation, came out of theaters in 1997.) And, surely, in 2021 mortal Kombat the film will involve killing a lot of people, making it the first film in the series to really embrace the mechanical signature of the Fatality games, which, if you haven’t already registered mortal Kombat in a minute holy shit these things have become bloody“But it will also be full of tender and human moments, like when he didn’t die as a ninja.” Scorpio’s wife uses one of her kunai as a gardening tool, just before she can presumably be pushed into a medieval Japanese refrigerator to motivate her resentment beyond life against a similarly dressed ninja enemy Sub- Zero. There is also a poignant search for identity and centered belonging Tan’s character, Cole Young (a name that approaches the “Cade Yaeger” levels of energy “Only one protagonist of the action movie would be called that”), an original franchise character seeks to find out why he has one mortal Kombat logo marked on the chest on the chest. (Our Assumption: A Love Night Between Her Mother and an arcade cabinet, many, many years before.)
It’s very silly, but obviously, go: Aat least the fight scenes sound great. (Also, we can see shots of the film taking on Sonya Blade, Kano and Jax—Performed by the mustache of Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson and Mehcad Brooks, respectively— THATexclusive photos from the movie.)