![]() ![]() Of course, all hope is not lost for Johnny Cage’s live-action return. Hopefully, his exclusion will help yield a more cohesive and focused story. Johnny Cage is, as Garner said, a huge personality, and one that sticks out in many ways from the rest of the Mortal Kombat roster. The new Mortal Kombat looks like it’s keeping plenty of the franchise’s trademark humor and self-awareness, but it also looks like it will hopefully be treating the series’ lore with a lot of respect. While Johnny Cage will certainly still be missed by diehard fans of the character, Garner’s explanation makes a lot of sense. ![]() I love these characters, so we thought hard about it.” It's super easy to bring him in a big, bombastic, fun way in the second. Is it a cop out to all of a sudden have Ryan Reynolds - not him, but you know - as the lead felt a little disingenuous to me. And then it's probably my bias of how it just feels weird if I'm trying to do - and I was - something different and diverse and true. It just felt Hollywood-ish to me, which is weird because he's an actor, which also was weird. And I early on felt uncomfortable having a white male lead kind of lead that charge in the first movie. "Secondarily, when you think about Mortal Kombat, if you just think about like the patina of the movie, it has a very Asian feel to it. So, I have a big stick and carrot that maybe they'll let me have a Johnny Cage real presence in the second one. I want to make a sequel, and I've now got Johnny Cage, which hasn't been used in the first one. So, taking him out was very easy not only for the movie, but for the sequel. It's very hard to just throw him in a movie, like I said, with Kano. One, he's a very big personality, right? He needs his own space. “Johnny Cage is obviously the elephant in the room, and there's a number of reasons why Johnny Cage was problematic in this particular movie out of the gate. The desire to put actors of Asian descent front-and-center in a film about martial arts also played a role. Garner explained that Johnny Cage’s exclusion was made in the interest of compiling a more grounded, cohesive cast of characters to tell a more focused story. ![]() In a recent roundtable interview attended by Screen Rant, Mortal Kombat producer Todd Garner discussed the process of selecting characters for the new movie. Related: Why Scorpion Appears To Cole Young In Mortal Kombat's Trailer ![]()
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