Simon McQuoid’s MORTAL KOMBAT 2 Lands Its Shao Kahn And More To The Tournament Roster
Martyn Ford (F9, The Machine, Boyka: Undisputed) has been cast to play Emperor Shao Kahn in Mortal Kombat 2, according to trade reports on Thursday. Roster additions on the sequel from Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line will also see Desmond Chiam in the role of King Jerrod, Ana Thu Nguyen as Sindel and Damon Herriman as the sinister Quan Chi.
Previously enlisted are Karl Urban as Johnny Cage, Adeline Rudolph as Kitana and Tati Gabrielle as Jade. Most of the cast of the 2021 movie are returning, namely Ludi Lin as Liu Kang, Jessica McNamee as Sonya Blade, Josh Lawson as Kano, Tadanobu Asano as Raiden; Mehcad Brooks as Jax, Chin Han as Shang Tsung, Joe Taslim as Bi-Han/Sub-Zero, Hiroyuki Sanada as Hanzo Hasashi/Scorpion and Max Huang as Kung Lao, and Lewis Tan as the newly-minted screen character Cole Young.
The sequel hails once again from Atomic Monster and Broken Road Productions. Simon McQuoid is back at the helm directing from a script by Jeremy Slater.
Shao Kahn debuted in the second installment of the Mortal Kombat fighting game series from Midway. Filmwise, Frank Welker briefly cameoed the character at the end of Paul W.S. Anderson’s Mortal Kombat with Brian Thompson taking on the role in full regalia for the 1997 sequel. Jeff Meek donned the part for TV’s Mortal Kombat Conquest a year later, with the character later adopted for by Aleks Panouvic for Kevin Tancharoen’s Mortal Kombat Legacy in 2011.
Chiam is the latest to stake his claim in the role of Jerrod who largely appears in cinematic and story sequences of the games. He succeeds late actor Kirby Morrow who played the character in Mortal Kombat Legacy. Nguyen’s addition as Outworld Queen Sindel is the first since the character’s screen debut by Musetta Vander in Mortal Kombat Annihilation, with Herriman’s Quan Chi handed from previous actors Adonis Maropis (Mortal Kombat Conquest) and Michael J. Rogers (Mortal Kombat Legacy).
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