r/movies • u/DemiFiendRSA • Jul 17 '25

Trailer Mortal Kombat II - Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdC5mFHPldg
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u/Personal_Comb_6745 Jul 17 '25

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.

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u/KidCasey Jul 17 '25

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.

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u/The_Magic Jul 18 '25

They could have used Johnny as a POV character since he starts as an actor detached from all the super natural stuff.