Karl City Is Reportedly in Talks to Play Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat Sequel

Karl City is reportedly in remaining talks to hitch the forged of the Mortal Kombat sequel. As per The Wrap, The Boys star is becoming a member of the sequel to New Line’s 2021 live-action adaptation within the position of Johnny Cage, the assured motion film star with immense martial arts background. Simon McQuoid will return to direct the sequel, from a script penned by Jeremy Slater (Moon Knight, The Umbrella Academy). It isn’t shocking for City to tackle a blockbuster position both, having been concerned in franchises just like the aforementioned The Boys, The Lord of the Rings films, and Thor: Ragnarok.

City has prior expertise starring in online game initiatives as effectively, corresponding to 2005’s Doom — wherein he performed Doomguy — and a voice position within the upcoming Ark: The Animated Collection. For the uninitiated, Johnny Cage is without doubt one of the central characters within the Mortal Kombat titles, sworn to guard the Earthrealm from threats, whereas being largely involved about whether or not he appears cool when doing it. He was the one lead character, who was overlooked of the 2021 movie, albeit a post-credits scene teased his look in a possible sequel, on the time. The brand new Mortal Kombat film is actually a grittier reboot — in comparison with the Nineteen Nineties movies — bringing in fatalities (brutal ending strikes) to the combination.

Mortal Kombat was launched concurrently in theatres and HBO Max throughout the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, and was largely targeted on the origin story of Scorpion (Hiroyuki Sanada) and Sub-Zero’s (Joe Taslim) feud. The movie additionally starred Tadanobu Asano as Lord Raiden, Mehcad Brooks because the cybernetic Jax, and Jessica McNamee as particular forces officer Sonya Blade. Within the video games, she’s additionally depicted because the love curiosity of Cage. Mortal Kombat grossed $84.4 million (about Rs. 689 crore) on the worldwide field workplace, towards a manufacturing price range of $55 million (about Rs. 449 crore). The figures might sound small, however that has to do with its simultaneous launch on HBO’s streaming service. As per Enterprise Insider, it was the most-streamed film among the many movies Warner Bros dropped in theatres and HBO Max on the similar time in 2021, garnering a gap viewership of three.8 million.

The information about City’s involvement in Mortal Kombat 2 comes precisely a 12 months since WWE celebrity Mike ‘The Miz’ Mizanin expressed his curiosity in taking part in Johnny Cage in a possible sequel. “I’ve been engaged on my splits, I have been engaged on my kicks,” he mentioned on a podcast from final 12 months (by way of IGN). “As quickly as I noticed that Mortal Kombat was out and there was no Johnny Cage but and my title was actually trending Worldwide No. 1, ‘We wish Miz as Johnny Cage,’ I used to be like, ‘If they need that to occur, I must mainly guarantee that I’m ready and prepared that if that chance presents itself then I might be prepared and targeted.” The wrestler is understood for being a whole showman on WWE, with even MK creator Ed Boon endorsing him. Unhappy day for The Miz certainly.

At present, there are not any launch particulars for the Mortal Kombat sequel.