Animated ‘Mortal Kombat’ Movie Starring Joel McHale And Jennifer Carpenter To Debut This Year
Mortal Kombatis taking the fight across different mediums. An animatedMortal Kombatmovie is currently in development at Warner Bros. Animation and is set to debut before the new live-action film even hits theaters. Warner Bros. Animation has set the animatedMortal Kombatmovie, titledMortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge, for a 2020 debut withJoel McHaleandJennifer Carpenterset to star.The Hollywood Reporterbroke the news that an animated movie based on the wildly popular fighting video game franchiseMortal Kombatwill debut in the first half of this year.Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’sRevengewill starCommunityalum Joel McHale as Johnny Cage whileDexter’s Jennifer Carpenter will voice star as Sonya Blade.
McHale and Carpenter lead a cast that includesJordan Rodriguesas Lui Kang;Patrick Seitzas Scorpion and Hanzo Hasashi;Steve Blumas Sub-Zero;Artt Butleras Shang Tsung;Darin De Paulas Quan Chi;Robin Atkin Downesas Kano;David B. Mitchellas Raiden;Ike Amadias Jax Briggs;Kevin Michael Richardsonas Goro;Grey Griffinas Kitana and Satoshi Hasashi; andFred Tatascioreas Demon Torturer.
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’sRevengewill be directed byEthan Spaulding(Batman: Assault on Arkham,Justice League: Throne of Atlantis) from a script byJeremy Adams(Supernatural,Teen Titans Go! Vs. Teen Titans). Rick Morales (Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders) produces alongside Jim Krieg (Batman: Gotham by Gaslight) while Sam Register acts as executive producer.
This is certainly a fast turn-around for a film that we didn’t even know was coming, despite the constant updates about theMortal Kombatlive-action movie produced by James Wan and directed by Simon McQuoid. But seeing as this is coming from Warner Bros. Animation, which releases an impressive array of direct-to-video DC animated films every year.Mortal Kombatdoesn’t have much of a following outside of the video game community (and outside of being a meme), so this might be a clever piece of cross-promotion that builds the hype for thelive-actionMortal Kombatfilm. Still it is a little odd since no one was really asking for aMortal Kombatanimated movie, but it could likely be a direct-to-video hit considering last year’sMortal Kombat 11was the 5th best seller of 2019 across all gaming platforms.
