Warner Bros. Animation has revealed an upcoming animated movie based on the Mortal Kombat franchise called Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge.
At present, it seems that the movie will star Joel McHale as Johnny Cage and Jennifer Carpenter as Sonya Blade. It’s set to be directed by Ethan Spaulding (director of Batman: Assault on Arkham, Justice League: Throne of Atlantis, and Scooby-Doo: Return to Zombie Island) and is based on a script by Jeremy Adams (Supernatural, Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans, Justice League Action).
Additional voice actors attached to the project include Jordan Rodrigues as Lui Kang, Patrick Seitz as Scorpion, Steve Blum as Sub-Zero, Artt Butler as Shang Tsung, Darin De Paul as Quan Chi, Robin Atkin Downes as Kano, David B. Mitchell as Raiden, Ike Amadi as Jax Briggs, Kevin Michael Richardson as Goro, and Grey Griffin as Kitana and Satoshi Hasashi.
So far as the plot goes, there’s really not much to go on at this time. It’s easy enough to guess from the title that this movie will focus on Scorpion in some fashion. Our best guess is that the “Legends” part of the title either suggests that this is the first part of what may be a larger series of stories based on the Mortal Kombat universe. It’s also entirely possible that we’ll learn more about that once we actually get to see this movie.
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In any case, Mortal Kombat is doing quite well lately. Mortal Kombat 11 proved to be a somewhat surprising hit in 2019 (at least in terms of just how good it was) and Warner Bros. is also working on a new live-action Mortal Kombat film that will look to replace the ’90s adaptation of the video game franchise (as well as the fairly recent web series) as the most beloved live-action adaptation of the infamous fighting game.
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge is expected to be released in the first half of 2020, but there’s no exact release date available at this time.
Matthew Byrd is a staff writer for Den of Geek. He spends most of his days trying to pitch deep-dive analytical pieces about Killer Klowns From Outer Space to an increasingly perturbed series of editors. You can read more of his work here or find him on Twitter at @SilverTuna014.
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