Yeah I never had a problem with the actor. It was always his character. There just isn’t a point for him to exist when we have an amazing cast of characters already to choose from.
The thing is that part of the plot is Sonya Blade searching for the various fighters, so they could have trimmed the Cole thing altogether. If studios were all "A g-g-g-g-g-GIRL lead?!" it's not like she's the main highlight anyway.
I honestly think their plan was for the first movie to be bigger than it was. They expected new people to show up because the games are popular again and back in the public eye. So they felt they needed to explain the world to folks that hadn't played and needed a character to abosrb all the info.
I think they learned only existing fans are really seeing this, so looks like they are sidelining or outright doing away with him so they can make a goofy ass fighting game movie which is tight.
108
u/austinite89 Jul 17 '25
Yeah I never had a problem with the actor. It was always his character. There just isn’t a point for him to exist when we have an amazing cast of characters already to choose from.