Mortal Kombat “did not hold back” when it came to fatalities, according to a starring actor.
Been a minute since we got an update on the Mortal Kombat movie. I know that the coronavirus has sort of thrown a wrench in the whole movie industry and studios and publishers alike are wondering if they’ll ever see a return of blockbuster releases or if they’ll all have to settle for straight-to-streaming services.
Whenever and however we eventually get to see the live-action Mortal Kombat reboot, we’ll probably love it all the more for how gruesome it will be over its predecessor.
According to rumored Kung Lao actor Lewis Tan (although he could just as easily be Liu Kang, so don’t take our word for it), the upcoming Mortal Kombat movie will definitely have fatalities, and they’ll be just as gruesome as the video game. Maybe even worse.
“Let me just say this, there were some days on set that I felt sick. I’m not kidding,” Tan said in an interview with ComicBook.com. “They did not… They did not hold back.”
This mirrors a teaser Tan posted to his Twitter account late last year where we got to see him all bloodied up. Presumably it’s fake blood, although he did mention that some of his “battle wounds” were “real.”
Additionally, writer Greg Russo also told ComicBook that Mortal Kombat is definitely going to “earn it’s R-rating.”
“I can say for sure that the fatalities that we’re gonna put into the film are from the game,” Russo mentioned. “We’re not going to come up with some new things that we haven’t seen before, but at the same time, if we’re going to do it to use that device, we want to make sure that it’s not just in there just to be in there and have that point to the story.”
We still don’t have any news on when to expect the film other than sometime in 2021. Whether it appears in theatres will likely depend on whether or not a COVID-19 vaccine exists, and if the majority of people can be convinced to take it.
Source: ComicBook.com
