Mortal Kombat 2: The Boys Star Karl Urban Reportedly in Final Talks to Play Johnny Cage

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Since it first appeared with the original video game in 1992, Mortal Kombat has grown to become one of the most popular media franchises built around the series of fighting video games. The Mortal Kombat has spawned 24 differently named games, out of which eleven were part of the main series, and the twelfth installment is currently in development and reportedly set to be released by the end of this year.

Thanks to its huge popularity, the Mortal Kombat franchise spawned the original live-action movie of the same name in 1995, followed by the sequel Mortal Kombat: Annihilation 1997. Critics panned Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, which was a commercial failure. In 2021, the reboot movie Mortal Kombat was released in theaters and on HBOMax simultaneously due to the pandemic of COVID-19. The movie grossed $84.4 million against the budget of $55 million, which doesn’t seem much, but it was enough for Warner Bros. Pictures to greenlit a sequel.

Mortal Kombat 2 will introduce a new Johnny Cage!

According to The Wrap, Karl Urban is currently in final talks to play Johnny Cage in the sequel to the 2021 reboot movie. The reboot didn’t feature Johnny Cage, who is one of the most known Mortal Kombat characters, but the post-credit scene of the first movie set up his appearance in the sequel.

Karl Urban is currently best known for starring in Amazon’s acclaimed superhero satire series The Boys. He is known for starring in many known projects, in either main or supporting roles. He starred in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy as Éomer, The Chronicles of Riddick as Siberius Vaako, the Star Trek movie series as Leonard McCoy, Dredd as Judge Dredd, Thor: Ragnarok as Skurge the Executioner, and he even had a cameo as a Stormtrooper in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

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Johnny Cage was featured in both 1995’s Mortal Kombat and 1997’s Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. In the former, the character was played by Linden Ashby, and in the latter, by Chris Conrad. The original 1995 movie received mixed reviews from critics but was ultimately well-received by the fans of the source material. The sequel, however, was an absolute disaster, which has put the live-action Mortal Kombat movie franchise on hold until 2021.

In the meantime, a series of animated movies kicked off with Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge in April 2020. The second movie, Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms, was released in August 2021, followed by Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind in October 2022 and Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match, which is set to be released by the end of this year.

The live-action Mortal Kombat 2 is currently in development, with Simon McQuoid set to return as the director. The release date is currently TBA.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.

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