As the highly-anticipated release of Mortal Kombat approaches, the director of the film, Simon McQuoid, is building up the hype for it. He’s been excitedly talking about the movie and in a recent interview with Total Film (via Games Radar) he specifically teases the action and fight sequences that we’ll see, saying:
“There’s a lot of fighting in the film. Some fights are big, some are small, but my main goal was to make the fights mean something. I wanted the fights to look and feel like they didn’t just sort of pop out of the story and then come back in.
“I didn’t want anything generic. I didn’t want anything that you could see in any action movie. The stunt team on this were just amazing, and they designed some pretty fucking incredible things.”
He goes on to share that Mortal Kombat is “unapologetically brutal” and that they pushed the violence to a 10 when they needed to. He says:
“It’s unapologetically brutal. We spent a lot of time talking about blood and what it looks like, but we just wanted to do it in a smart way. We have to make it mean something and we have to make you care. When we need to push it to 10 we definitely pushed it to 10, so there was no one shying away from that. And there’s one moment I saw today that had me leaping for joy. It’s like Christmas morning every day in the editing suite at the moment – I go in and the effects company have revved everything up… I just can’t wait for you all to see it.”
And I can’t wait to see it! Judging from what I saw in the trailer, this movie is going to give Mortal Kombat fans what they’ve been waiting for. While I’ll always love the original movie, I’m very excited about this next film and I think it will end up being a better movie.
When asked about the possibility of a sequel and a Mortal Kombat cinematic universe, the director said:
“To be honest, that’s going to be for the fans to decide. When you look back at the games and where they’ve gone with their worlds and their stories and the characters, obviously, there’s a lot more to draw from. But let’s not get arrogant here. Let’s try and get step one right first…”
I also included a new photo above featuring Chin Han (Ghost in the Shell, Marco Polo, The Dark Knight) as the villain Shang Tsung. Mortal Kombat is scheduled to open in theaters and on HBO Max on April 16.