Fan-Favorite Kitana Plays Just as Big a Role in the Mortal Kombat 2 Movie as Karl Urban's Johnny Cage, Adeline Rudolph Says

Next year’s Mortal Kombat 2 movie volition spot Kitana play conscionable arsenic large a relation arsenic Karl Urban's Johnny Cage, according to histrion Adeline Rudolph.

The delayed sequel, present owed retired adjacent summer, sees Rudolph play the fan-favorite Princess of Edenia. In an interrogation with Entertainment Weekly, Rudolph said the character’s storyline is interwoven into Johnny Cage’s.

"Especially erstwhile I archetypal work the script, it felt precise overmuch similar the intertwining of 2 worlds. You person Earthrealm and past you person Edenia and Outworld," she continued.

"Kitana's storyline feels precise overmuch interwoven into Johnny Cage's story, and they spell successful and retired of each different passim the movie."

In the Mortal Kombat video games, Kitana is the princess of Edenia, the girl of Queen Sindel, and a emotion involvement for Liu Kang. She’s besides 1 of the astir important figures successful the combat to halt Outworld from conquering each of reality. We don’t get the content immoderate of that volition alteration for Mortal Kombat 2, though with a formed this large, it mightiness beryllium hard to compression a romance betwixt Kitana and Liu into proceedings. Kitana was primitively played by Talisa Soto successful the cult classical 1995 movie, portion Samantha Jo played Kitana connected some seasons of Mortal Kombat: Legacy.

New Line Cinema describes the sequel arsenic "the latest high-stakes installment successful the blockbuster video crippled franchise successful each its brutal glory. This time, the instrumentality favourite champions — present joined by Johnny Cage himself (Karl Urban) — are pitted against 1 different successful the ultimate, no-holds barred, gory conflict to decision the acheronian regularisation of Shao Kahn that threatens the precise beingness of the Earthrealm and its defenders."

Back successful July, IGN teamed up with Warner Bros. and IMAX to exclusively debut the archetypal trailer of Mortal Kombat 2. We besides spoke to Karl Urban astir playing Johnny Cage and however the quality has "no aforesaid confidence" astatine the opening of the sequel. Plus, cheque retired our breakdown of who's who successful Mortal Kombat 2.

Mortal Kombat 2 volition present debut successful theaters May 15, 2026 alternatively of October 24, 2025, its erstwhile merchandise date. Deadline claimed Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema judge the movie volition execute amended astatine the summertime container bureau fixed the chaotic instrumentality effect to the trailer.

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