We were waiting for him and we were particularly served! As promised, Warner Bros released the very first trailer for the film Mortal Kombat, coming to theaters and on the HBO Max platform next April in the United States. In France, the film is scheduled for April 7 in theaters, only if the government finally accepts the cinema complexes to resume their work. In the meantime, this Mortal Kombat reboot comes 26 years after the very first film, directed at the time by Paul WS Anderson, at a time when his works did not yet end in blood sausage. Having become cult for a whole generation, the first film did not however go to the end of what an MK film could offer us, and it is indeed the intention of this reboot which wishes to honor the characters, history, violence, gore and of course fatalities. The 2 “42 min trailer is enough for us to understand that the producer James Wan (director of Saw, Insidious, The Conjuring, Fast & Furious 7 and Aquaman) did everything to respect the game imagined by Ed Boon, with brutal images and above all a respect for the backstory of the different characters. “On will go as far as violence as possible before being censored or banned, “Bennet Walsh told ABC Australia, the other producer who worked on Kill Bill in particular).
Clearly, the story of the film will revolve around the duality between Scorpion (played by Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada) and Sub-Zero (played on screen by Joe Taslim, an Indonesian actor specializing in martial arts and that we have could see breaking jaws in The Raid in particular), who will of course be surrounded by other iconic characters from the video game. Only Johnny Cage is missing, but we will come back to his absence on one of our 5 News & Rumors per day program. The film promises otherwise to rewrite the history of video games and thus appropriate it to surprise the audience. This is how we realize that Jax loses both arms in front of Sub-Zero during an intervention mission in Brazil. Brutal images, out of respect for the original material therefore, and which allow us to see that we will see the powers of the protagonists, but also their various fatalities, like Liu Kang who invokes his fire dragon (magnificent! ) and Kano who tears a heart from his opponent. The trailer also allows us to see that the theme of the first film has been reused and re-orchestrated so as not to betray precisely the heritage of 1995. In any case, this reboot promises to be explosive and brutal like never before. We look forward !
