Joe Taslim has joined the ‘Mortal Kombat’ film reboot.
The 38-year-old actor – who’s finest identified for his roles as Jah in ‘Fast & Furious 6’ and Ito within the 2018 Netflix movie ‘The Night Comes for Us’ – will reportedly be part of the manufacturing when it begins capturing in Australia later this 12 months and is about to tackle the function of Sub-Zero.
Simon McQuoid additionally just lately signed as much as direct the movie which relies on the enduring arcade and console preventing franchise of the identical identify – which this 12 months noticed its eleventh instalment launched.
Sub-Zero – who can management ice for assault and defence – is likely one of the franchise’s hottest fighters and throughout the video games’ storyline is the nemesis of fellow ninja Scorpion.
Greg Russo has written a draft model of the script and James Wan will produce the movement image alongside Todd Garner, Jeremy Stein and Michael Clear, whereas Lawrence Kasanoff will act as government producer on the film.
Paul W.S. Anderson helmed the unique ‘Mortal Kombat’ film in 1995, which noticed Christopher Lambert play grasp of electrical energy Raiden and was additionally produced by Kasanoff.
The movie featured ‘Mortal Kombat’ characters Liu Kang (Robin Shou), Johnny Cage (Linden Ashby), and Sonya Blade (Bridgette Wilson), making an attempt to attempt to defeat evil Shang Tsung (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) in a match to avoid wasting the world.
It was based mostly on the primary beat ’em up online game ‘Mortal Kombat’ and the following title ‘Mortal Kombat II’.
Lambert just lately revealed the brand new film can have a time journey theme.
He stated: ”They have a terrific thought for the third one. It will probably be very completely different. We are going to be travelling via time, however in a really particular manner. Imagine characters having a battle in the midst of London after which whoosh, you smash via a window and end up on the hood of a New York cab.”
