About his entry into the world of ‘Mortal Kombat’, actor Lewis Tan, who plays Young, said, “I think the first time I played ‘Mortal Kombat’ was in an arcade, but like most kids who fell in love with the action and fighting, I had it at home, too I would usually play Kung Lao.
Unaware of his powerful heritage, Young bears a dragon ‘birthmark’ that he soon discovers has made him the target of Outworld’s assassins. An entirely new character to the ‘Mortal Kombat’ franchise, Young is a gifted MMA fighter struggling to catch a break in the violent, competitive world of cage fighting. I finally just wore them down and they optioned the rights to me for an insanely short amount of time, which now I would never do, but it was my first deal at my company.”Ī new hero is born: If you’re a long-time fan of the franchise, you’re probably scratching your head over this Cole Young character. Because video game movies had recently failed, like ‘Mario Bros.’, no one believed it.
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He looked at me and said, ‘You’re full of crap! It’s just an arcade game!’ That began a three-month process of me trying to convince them that it was more than just an arcade game. I said, ‘If you give me the rights to this, I promise you I will produce this, not just in movies, but in every medium in the world’. Nicastro and I said, ‘This is ‘Star Wars’ meets ‘Enter the Dragon’. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Kasanoff said, “I played the ‘Mortal Kombat’ arcade game in office for half an hour.
The usual T&Cs can be found here.‘Mortal Kombat’: The 1995 film and its lesser sequel: When producer Larry Kasanoff first optioned the rights to the ‘Mortal Kombat’ franchise to turn into a video game, nobody believed it would work at the box office.
Soon, he finds himself at the temple of Lord Raiden (Tadanobu Asano), an Elder God and the protector of Earthrealm, who grants sanctuary to those who bear the mark. Fearing for his family’s safety, Cole goes in search of Sonya Blade (Jessica McNamee) at the direction of Jax (Mehcad Brooks), a Special Forces Major who bears the same strange dragon marking Cole was born with. MMA fighter Cole Young (Lewis Tan), accustomed to taking a beating for money, is unaware of his heritage-or why Outworld’s Sorcerer Shang Tsung (Chin Han) has sent his best warrior, Sub-Zero (Joe Taslim), an otherworldly Cryomancer, to hunt him down. To mark the release of Mortal Kombat, out now, we’ve been given 1 copy to give away on Blu-ray.
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