Mortal Kombat II’s Johnny Cage Will Be a “Very Dispirited Character” - NYCC 2025

Speaking connected the Mortal Kombat II movie sheet astatine NYCC 2025, histrion Karl Urban revealed that the Johnny Cage we conscionable successful the 2026 won't beryllium the palmy enactment prima we cognize from the classical warring series.

"Johnny Cage, erstwhile we archetypal spot him successful Mortal Kombat II, is simply a precise dispirited character," Urban explained.

"HIs vocation is wholly successful the tank, he’s not been keeping up with his martial arts training. The satellite has forgotten who Johnny Cage is. He has precise small of that brash cocky Johnny Cage you cognize from the games, he’s a breached man… Through the people of the movie we get to spot him alteration into a existent champion of Earthrealm and involuntarily get launched into this insane enactment epic adventure. It’ll stroke your minds, man"

"Johnny from the games, the biggest prima successful the world, isn’t a quality you tin spell connected a travel with," added the movie's writer Jeremy Slater.

Urban besides talked astir moving with with an ensemble cast, and however the experienced compared to moving with the squad connected The Boys.

"We had specified a blast. My [The] Boys unit are family, we’ve been done a batch implicit the past 5 years, seasons," helium said.

"To locomotion into this movie and to locomotion onto thing that was preexisting with the unthinkable formed that did specified phenomenal enactment successful the archetypal movie.. We were coming into a preexisting household and they welcomed america with unfastened arms. We bonded truly good and had a batch of fun. This movie was astir apt the astir challenging - technically, physically, mentally - undertaking that I've ever attempted successful my career. We had conscionable the astir astonishing stunt team. We hung and we hung tough. We’re a family."

New Line Cinema describes the Mortal Kombat sequel arsenic "the latest high-stakes installment successful the blockbuster video crippled franchise successful each its brutal glory. This time, the instrumentality favourite champions—now 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." It volition debut successful theaters May 15, 2026.

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Rachel Weber is the Senior Editorial Director of Games astatine IGN and an elder millennial. She's been a nonrecreational nerd since 2006 erstwhile she got her commencement connected Official PlayStation Magazine successful the UK, and has since worked for GamesIndustry.Biz, Rolling Stone and GamesRadar. She loves horror, fearfulness movies, fearfulness games, and French Bulldogs. Those other wrinkles connected her look are acknowledgment to going clip unsighted and staying up excessively precocious finishing each sidequest successful RPGs similar Fallout and Witcher 3.