{"id":3420,"date":"2025-07-17T18:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/3420\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T18:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:11:08","slug":"karl-urban-plays-johnny-cage-in-sequel-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/3420\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl Urban Plays Johnny Cage in Sequel Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tJohnny Cage has a pair of sunglasses and knows how to use them in the first trailer for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/mortal-kombat\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mortal-kombat_1\" data-tag=\"mortal-kombat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mortal Kombat<\/a> II.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/warner-bros\/\" id=\"auto-tag_warner-bros_1\" data-tag=\"warner-bros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warner Bros.<\/a> releases director Simon McQuoid\u2019s sequel movie in theaters Oct. 24. Hailing from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/new-line\/\" id=\"auto-tag_new-line_1\" data-tag=\"new-line\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Line<\/a> and based on the popular video game franchise that dates back to the 1990s, the film stars\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/karl-urban\/\" id=\"auto-tag_karl-urban_1\" data-tag=\"karl-urban\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Karl Urban<\/a> as Johnny Cage, alongside Adeline Rudolph, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Ludi Lin, Mehcad Brooks, Tati Gabrielle, Lewis Tan, Damon Herriman, Chin Han, Tadanobu Asano, Joe Taslim and Hiroyuki Sanada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMortal Kombat II centers on the group of ragtag fighters who must defend Earth from the evil forces of Outworld.\u00a0It follows 2021\u2019s Mortal Kombat, which rebooted the film franchise that kicked off with the original 1995 movie. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn the trailer, Urban is approached at a bar by a fan of the show that Johnny Cage had starred in as an actor, with the fan asking for a reboot. \u201cNobody wants that,\u201d Urban replies. \u201cShit went out in the \u201990s.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLater, after Johnny Cage starts to compete against the other fighters, he explains why he doesn\u2019t need special powers: \u201cI\u2019m just incredibly handsome.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMcQuoid helmed the film from a script by Jeremy Slater that is based on the video game created by Ed Boon and John Tobias. Producers include McQuoid, Todd Garner, James Wan, Toby Emmerich and E. Bennett Walsh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNew Line chief Richard Brenner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/mortal-kombat-2-footage-johnny-cage-1236178377\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">introduced the first footage<\/a> from the film at CinemaCon in April. \u201cExpect amazing fights, epic battles and a few fatalities,\u201d the exec teased at the time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johnny Cage has a pair of sunglasses and knows how to use them in the first trailer for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,4429,4430,337,4431,1556,4432],"class_list":{"0":"post-3420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-karl-urban","12":"tag-mortal-kombat","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-new-line","15":"tag-trailers","16":"tag-warner-bros"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}