Oh, thank God, the new Mortal Kombat movie is about “family”

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Ah, family: As a pop culture troupe, it can justify almost anything. Noble sacrifices, gang cleansing, picking up one car from another car while both cars also pull harpoons on a third and fourth car, respectively– all can be transmitted, narratively, as expressions of our common love for the people closest to us in our lives. (And sometimes our hatred of cars.) We can now add “Ripping a Spine and Probably Showing It” to that list of affiliates. powers, also, because the new The deadly beating It seems that the film refers to those two big F’s: Family and Fatalities. It is enough to warm your heart and then snatch it, still beating, from their chest.

All this in warm blood the feeling comes through courtesy of a profile of the future video game adaptation that was combined out of Weekly entertainment today, talking to star Lewis Tan and director Simon McQuoid about their attempts to restart the long-comatose The deadly beating movie franchise. (The last theater MK movie, Annihilation, came out in theaters in 1997.) And, of course, 2021 The deadly beating the film will involve killing an entire group of people – which will make it the first film in the series to actually embrace the Fatality mechanic of the games, which, if you haven’t checked in The deadly beating In a minute, holy shit these things have become bloody– but it will also be full of tender, human moments, like when you weren’t born a ninja Scorpio’s wife uses one of her kunai as a gardening tool, even before it was probably placed in a medieval Japanese refrigerator, to motivate her lifelong zeal for sub-Zero-dressed ninja nemesis. similar. There is also an exciting search for identity and belonging centered on The character of Tan Cole Young (a name that approaches the levels of “Cade Yaeger” of “Only a protagonist of the action film would be called this” energy), an original character of the franchise that seeks to find out why he has one The deadly beating the logo marked on the chest. (Our assumption: a love night between his mother and an arcade cabinet, many many years before.)

It’s very stupid, obviously, but, hey: Aat least the fight scenes sound great. (We will also see photos of movies about Sonya Blade, Kano and Jax– played by Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson and Mehcad Brooks, respectively – in THATexclusive photos from the movie.)

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