First Look at Johnny Cage, Shao Khan, and Kitana in Mortal Kombat 2 Movie

Mortal Kombat 2 has yet offered a archetypal look astatine a fig of caller characters acceptable to look successful the movie sequel.

Entertainment Weekly posted images of Karl Urban’s Johnny Cage, Martyn Ford’s Shao Kahn, and Adeline Rudolph’s Kitana, alongside the returning Hiroyuki Sanada arsenic Scorpion.

Mortal Kombat fans had wondered however Karl Urban, who plays Billy Butcher successful The Boys, would look arsenic Mortal Kombat’s fan-favorite egocentric Hollywood prima successful unrecorded enactment signifier aft his representation appeared successful an in-universe poster for a Cage movie.

In the image, below, we spot a fresh-faced Urban with Cage’s trademark hairsbreadth and sunglasses successful a emblematic martial arts pose. In the background, we spot Ludi Lin arsenic Liu Kang, Mehcad Brooks arsenic Jax, and Jessica McNamee arsenic Sonya Blade.

Entertainment Weekly published a punctuation from Mortal Kombat developer NetherRealm’s Ed Boon connected Johnny Cage’s quality successful the sequel.

"His integration into the Mortal Kombat communicative and beingness is simply a large portion of what this movie explores,” Boon said.

“He's a washed-up Hollywood feline thrown into this magical, ultra-violent thing. Karl, his depiction of Johnny Cage is antithetic than our games successful immoderate ways. He's adding his ain flare to it, but I deliberation it'll consciousness fresh. There's similar a novelty origin successful there."

Expect a "ridiculously hilarious” quality instauration for Johnny Cage, Boon teased. Director Simon McQuoid added: "We wanted a quality that wasn't conscionable wholly silly, comic book… It's a quality that could instantly spell determination and go excessively airy and throwaway if we were to thin excessively overmuch into the benignant of cheese. The casting of Karl Urban for that relation allowed that quality to person much depth."

Entertainment Weekly confirmed movie-accurate skins for Urban's Johnny, Rudolph's Kitana, and Ford's Shao Kahn are coming to Mortal Kombat 1 aboriginal this year.

Meanwhile, Damon Herriman (Better Man) plays Quan Chi successful Mortal Kombat 2, and Josh Lawson and Max Huang marque a astonishment instrumentality arsenic Kano and Kung Lao, 2 characters who spot the particulate successful the archetypal movie. How tin that be? Boon said existing lore from the Mortal Kombat video games, which famously play accelerated and escaped with the live oregon dormant presumption of its characters, makes thing possible: "So we woody with spirits and the NetherRealm and things similar that," helium said. "There are ways to bring dormant characters back."

And finally, Tati Gabrielle (The Last of Us Season 2) plays Jade, Ana Thu Nguyen (NCIS: Sydney) plays Queen Sindel. Mortal Kombat 2 hits theatres connected October 24, 2025.

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