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'Mortal Kombat' producer explains why you won't see Johnny Cage: "it felt weird to have a white actor be the hero of the story"
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Arkam
Member
Yup. Expected. This why I rarely get excited for movies/shows anymore. Everything has to go through a fucking woke/political lens. It’s nauseating.
If you are a true creator, you create without such baggage. Hollywood feels like a bunch of second string interns that are just miming what (they think) they saw the talented people do in the past... and failing... hard... and they don’t even realize it.
If you are a true creator, you create without such baggage. Hollywood feels like a bunch of second string interns that are just miming what (they think) they saw the talented people do in the past... and failing... hard... and they don’t even realize it.
Diatribe1974
Member
It goes to show you that often times creators of a new product don't know shit about the product itself. As others have stayed, Johnny Cage was never the central character, it was always Liu Kang. It did center around the trio of Liu, Johnny and Sonya Blade though, yes, but prime character was Liu. We need less idiots like that and more people that know their shit.
Richard Packer
Member
Mortal Kombat: XXX
CrankyJay™
Member
What a fucking cunt.
Fbh
Member
So not only did he not play any of the games, he couldn't even be bothered to spend and hour and half watching the 95 movie.
You can always do the race swap test:
Lastly, one more problem Garner and his team had was the unsavory idea of a black character (like Jax) being the hero who saves everyone.
If it sounds racist....it's probably because it is.
You can always do the race swap test:
Lastly, one more problem Garner and his team had was the unsavory idea of a black character (like Jax) being the hero who saves everyone.
If it sounds racist....it's probably because it is.
Dusktildawn48
Member
Maaaaaaaan, there goes my hype for a movie I was really hyped for.
Reality Czar
Banned
LOL just realized this not only was Johnny Cage not the hero of the first movie, he was killed off early in the second movie.
This is like the new Star Wars guys pretending George Lucas was a racist sexist and Lando and Leia didn't save the day in Empire.
This is like the new Star Wars guys pretending George Lucas was a racist sexist and Lando and Leia didn't save the day in Empire.
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Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Two pages and this hasn’t been posted... smh gaf you’re slipping
Reality Czar
Banned
Oh yeah. I remember going to high school pep rallies and hearing that.
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
I get all that but at the end of the day Johnny Cage is mortal Kombat another thought that never crossed peoples minds.
QuantumZebra
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Prison Mike
Banned
LegendOfKage
Member
Could you post the tweets? Are you saying the quote in this interview is made up or taken out of context? Is the producer clarifying things on twitter?
Reality Czar
Banned
It is rated R, I think they are going for a more dour and serious tone. They will have fatalities in this, no?
Personally, I'm staying away from this movie. Unless there is like absolutely nothing else to do. I liked MK1-2-3 as a kid. But I liked it cos it was cheesy and OTT. I am not a fan of gore, I usually stay clear of it. But MK is more like a violent cartoon.
Or used to be. I can't play the new games because they are so realistic with the violence. 90s movies were great because they were cheesy pulp fantasy.
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8bitpill
Member
This is just their PR agency giving them lines to pull in a larger viewing groups. Lines like this have been dropped by Studios, Directors, and Actors for over half a decade now. These type of movies are there to pull in the largest crowds they can, it's about numbers. These are selling points today.
Plus, Johnny Cage as a white hero
,
I never looked at this nerd,
as cool or a character to look up too.
I was eleven just about to turn twelve the summer the original movie came out. Scorpion and Sub-Zero were roll models, goto characters for what was cool.
Plus, Johnny Cage as a white hero
,I never looked at this nerd,
as cool or a character to look up too.
I was eleven just about to turn twelve the summer the original movie came out. Scorpion and Sub-Zero were roll models, goto characters for what was cool.
Zato
Banned
Yeah this smacks of someone talking out their ass, they don’t know what they are talking about.
Frankly all this woke wankery smacks of new advertising to pull in suckers who don’t see they are being manipulated.
Who gave them the money to make it and who takes the profit, the white man.
These woke fools can’t see they are still being played in what is still a white mans game.
Frankly all this woke wankery smacks of new advertising to pull in suckers who don’t see they are being manipulated.
Who gave them the money to make it and who takes the profit, the white man.
These woke fools can’t see they are still being played in what is still a white mans game.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
We didn't want to taint that awesomeness in a time before the IdPol mind virus.
Hulk_Smash
Banned
I like how the guy said it’s because he’s white and then they go and give some Asian dude who’s not even a character in the game a white dude’s name.
Seriously. This is bothering me.Why is it that after Mortal Kombat 1, people suddenly had amnesia about who the hero is in MK? It's not Cage, it's not Jax, not Sonya, not Scorpion, not Sub-Zero. You know who it's always been.
The fan movies, Scorpion's revenge, and now this new movie keep acting like he isn't. He's literally handed to you on a platter as a Kung-Fu captain america doo-gooder hero archetype and instead you say 'Well I thought Johnny Cage was the protagonist so I shelved him' Why did you think that? Who told you to think that? Someone who's writers can't think of a good enough backstory for Liu Kang to make him interesting and like-able for the audience. It's not that hard is it?
Who in their right mind thinks Johnny Cage is the protagonist of Mortal Kombat? It's like saying Guile is the protagonist of Street Fighter.
He isn't. It's Ryu. Liu Kang is the top guy in mortal kombat. Why is the producers of this movie acting like the producers of the street fighter movie
It's stuff like this that screams "we don't know the source material".
sloppyjoe_gamer
Gold Member
Nobody wins.........WOKE-ALITY
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JeremyEtcetera
Unconfirmed Member
Hollywood tried that bullshit too, for multiple generations, to make either Guile or Chun-li the protagonists of Street Fighter. It took a live action youtube mini-series to get it right and they almost, almost struck a hollywood deal with how well it was regarded. Suits never know what the fuck they're doing and it's constantly upsetting.
To hollywood execs, writers, directors, and top leads: Yes, it's nice that you worked your ass off and were able to land a top gig at Hollywood, but you sacrificed not having any fun with the following: fiction books, comic books, video games, and TV, to get where you are today and now you're just a fool with a title and money who has to be spoon fed the culture you should have grown up on with everyone else so that hopefully you can appear to look like you know what you're doing and not fuck up everyone else's money by making the next Dragonball Evolution.
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Mitsuda Maniac
Member
Aww crap, this kind of stuff saps the excitement I had for watching this film on HBO Max. Woke garbage everywhere, ugh. Hopefully "Nobody" with Bob Odenkirk isn't full of the same type of crap. That's the only film I can think of that I am excited to watch now.
Virt McPolygon
Banned
And like clockwork, people are taking the bait lmao
ShadowLag
Member
Not only this, but you have Kung Lao alongside Liu Kang most of the time, and even the "marketing heroes" of the series aka Scorpion and Sub-Zero are Japanese and Chinese, respectively. This has always been made very very clear in both the games and previous movies.
Total ignorance of the source material and virtue signalling dumbfuckery is afoot in Hollywood as usual, and MK gets to be the latest casualty.
Is the purpose of the bait to convince people to not watch the movie?And like clockwork, people are taking the bait lmao
lame gag1990
Member
Another movie where the producer doesn't have a clue about the source material. No way... Thanks Garner for confirming this is going to stink.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
It sounds like he’s not really good enough to make a film with him in it. Mortal Kombat games get made with him as a character.
Virt McPolygon
Banned
If there's one thing manchild gamers are good at, it's failing to boycott something.
Torrent of Pork
Banned
Bro, I don't have to watch the fucking thing. If the studio wants to turn away potentially paying customers that's on them, perhaps the blue-hairs will make up for the fans who bail.And like clockwork, people are taking the bait lmao
(they won't)
Virt McPolygon
Banned
It's on a popular streaming service, so the movie will do fine. Keep bitching in your echo chamber, though.
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JeremyEtcetera
Unconfirmed Member
Virt McPolygon
whats your stake in this?Some of us here, like myself, aren't complaining because of agendas and politics, but because we are simply not happy a beloved character was axed for the completely wrong reason(s), and that goes back to the creator(s) not doing the proper 10 second google search to see that Johnny Cage was never the protagonist of any MK. Hell he didn't even get his own side game. So the question still stands, who said he ever was? Who decided that?