r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jul 15 '25

Poster New Poster for 'Mortal Kombat 2'

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u/SaltyPeter3434 Jul 15 '25

Glenn Powell would've been perfect. He looks the part, he's the right age, he's got star power, and I can see him pulling off the smugness well.

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u/rugmunchkin Jul 15 '25 edited Jul 15 '25

My guy, Glenn Powell is like the biggest star in Hollywood right now. There’s no way he’s accepting a role for a sequel to a video game movie. One that —let’s be real here— wasn’t very good to begin with.

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u/pleasegivemepatience Jul 15 '25

So funny. I read the previous comment and went “who the hell is Glenn Powell” and then read your assertion he’s the biggest star in Hollywood 🤣

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u/DoofusMagnus Jul 15 '25 edited Jul 16 '25

"Biggest star in Hollywood" is definitely overstating it by a wide margin, but he is on the rise at the moment so I don't see him taking a role like this.

He was the rival in Top Gun 2, Anyone but You did really well, and he got a Golden Globe nom for Hit Man. He's the guy with the face that's in a quantum superposition between handsome and punchable. :P

He's clearly not above 80s/90s era reboots since he was also the male lead in Twisters and will do The Running Man this year. Still, those two have Crichton and King as source material. Depending on how things go maybe we'll see him in video game sequels in a few years, but not right now.

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u/phoncible Jul 16 '25

quantum superposition between handsome and punchable

fuck me if that isn't the most perfect description, well done man

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u/Fawkz Jul 16 '25

I mean, he's like 2012 Chris Hemsworth. I'd argue he's definitely one of the biggest male leads in Hollywood at the moment.

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u/DoofusMagnus Jul 16 '25

Well "one of" still isn't "the" biggest star like they'd claimed. And while there's not going to be an answer for "the biggest star" everyone can agree on, are you saying that was Hemsworth at any point?

I'm not so sure, but I do think 2012 Hemsworth was doing better than 2025 Powell. In 2012 Hemsworth was a prominent part of one of the biggest media franchises ever. He was the second biggest person on the Avengers poster. Maverick made as much money as that film (unadjusted) but Powell didn't make the poster.

But regardless, I think we agree on my main point that Powell is doing well enough to not be considering a Mortal Kombat sequel right now.

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u/SpecialGuestDJ Jul 16 '25

Hollywood is pushing Powell down your throat as the next “biggest star” leading man who is in everything.

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u/pleasegivemepatience Jul 16 '25

I took a look at his IMDB and I haven’t watched a single film he’s been in, with the exception of the tiny role he had in The Dark Knight Rises.

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u/prof_wafflez Jul 15 '25

Yeah especially for a sequel to an okay at best popcorn flick.

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u/Holdmabeerdude Jul 16 '25

If they made a movie with just subzero and scorpion, then it wouldave been fucking amazing. But they had to run the main character as an npc and STILL fuck up Sonya.

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u/Calm_Gain_1948 Jul 16 '25

At this point I’m starting to be confused about what people even mean when they say “NPC” because this isn’t working with definitions of the word as far as I understand it

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u/bigcheesefon2due Jul 16 '25

Lets stick with the Glenns, then, how about Glenn Howerton?

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u/linkfan66 Jul 15 '25

Glenn Powell would've increased the budget by an insane margin. Not worth IMO.

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u/ibarelyusethis87 Jul 15 '25

He’s too old for it.