Celebrity cameos have been a thing for a while in Mortal Kombat. In 2019, we saw Sonya Blade played by Ronda Rousey in Mortal Kombat 11, and we also got to see Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator. Now, in Mortal Kombat 1, we get to see John Cena as Peacemaker, JK Simmons as Omni Man, and we already got Megan Fox as Nitara.
However, Ed Boon wanted even more cameos. In a conversation with Rolling Stone he revealed that NetherRealm was desperately trying to get John Wick into the game. “We tried to get John Wick into Mortal Kombat, but we didn’t make it”, where.
Boon also wants to go even further, and one of his dreams was to have all the characters played by one actor. “One of the things I entertained with this game — and this is the 10 out of 10 version — that we didn’t do was, ‘What if all the characters in this game were played by an actor? Like we got Keanu Reeves to play Kenshi… it’s a pipe dream. We don’t even think about their salaries and all that. Imagine if we made a game where a famous, recognizable actor had played all the characters, and Johnny Cage was definitely the one who would have been played by Jean-Claude Van Damme.”
“So the idea came to us. But at some point, I don’t know if he would have wanted to do motion-capture work, or if he [sa]: ‘Just scan my face and let someone else do everything else’. There are hundreds of lines of dialogue that they have to read. Many actors are not aware of how sophisticated computer games are. When you sign up, you don’t just sign up to go in one day, be in the recording studio for an hour, and then you’re done. It’s like a real acting job.”
Do you think an all-celebrity cast in Mortal Kombat would work?
2023-09-20 13:46:20
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