According to a member of its cast, the new Mortal Kombat movie will not be skimping on bloody depictions of fatalities.
Actor Lewis Tan, who plays an undisclosed role in Mortal Kombat, told Comic Book all about the on-set gruesomeness used to make death scenes faithful to the Mortal Kombat video games. "Let me just say this, there were some days on set that I felt sick," Tan said. "I'm not kidding. They did not... They did not hold back."
Writer Greg Russo reaffirmed the new Mortal Kombat movie's commitment to getting the violence right. "I can say for sure that the fatalities that we're gonna put into the film are from the game," Russo explained. "We're not going to come up with some new things that we haven't seen before, but at the same time, if we're going to do it to use that device, we want to make sure that it's not just in there just to be in there and have that point to the story."
Russo concluded, "So I would just say that it's going to be faithful to the games and it's going to earn its R-rating."
The new Mortal Kombat film will serve as a reboot to Mortal Kombat (1995) and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997). The franchise also spawned two TV series: Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm and Mortal Kombat: Conquest.
Produced by James Wan, featuring the directorial debut of Simon McQuoid and starring Ludi Lin, Chin Han, Jessica McNamee, Hiroyuki Sanada, Joe Taslim, Mehcad Brooks, Josh Lawson, Sisi Stringer Elissa Cadwell and Tadanobu Asano, Mortal Kombat is expected to be in theaters January 15, 2021.