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‘Mortal Kombat’: Killer New Shot of Scorpion Begins the Fight Ahead of Today’s Trailer
In the wake of yesterday’s motion posters and before today’s full trailer, Entertainment Weekly has shared a brand new shot of Hiroyuki Sanada as Scorpion/Hanzo Hasashi from the James Wan-produced feature film. It’s our coolest look at the movie yet, and you’ll find it below.
The site explains that “the film is, in part, about the birth of Scorpion.”
Entertainment Weekly details, “The opening sequence goes back to feudal Japan where Hanzo is set upon by Bi-Han in what is the latest move between two warring clans. It’s at that moment Hanzo crafts his signature weapon: he takes the kunai blade his wife uses to tend the garden, fashions it to the tip of a whip, and unleashes hell.”
Sanada himself describes the character, specifically his transformation from Hanzo Hasashi to the supernatural fighter Scorpion, as a “family man changed to fighting machine.”
Directed by Simon McQuoid, MK is coming to theaters and HBO Max on April 16.
HIROYUKI SANADA as Scorpion/Hanzo Hasashi in New Line Cinema’s action adventure “Mortal Kombat,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
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Todd McFarlane Reveals He’s Sitting on Unreleased Animated ‘Spawn’ Movie Starring Keith David
While updates on the Spawn movie from Blumhouse have stalled, Todd McFarlane surprised at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend with the reveal that he’s been sitting on an animated film.
Moreover, the comic creator revealed to Comic Book that his unreleased animated Spawn film is mostly completed, and stars Keith David and Mark Hamill.
McFarlane explained to the outlet that he’s uninterested in expanding upon the 1997 live-action film in series form. That’s when he revealed his animated feature: “I don’t know if I’ve ever said, we developed, we were in the process of developing the return of this Spawn animation a while back. And then we, I got in a fight at the very end with the production and the lawyer, so I just bought it all back.”
The film is mostly ready to go, too.
“So I actually have a 90-minute animated show that’s all been drawn, minus the cells. All the voices have been done. Everything, like, we’re ready. All we need is a little bit of Foley, which is sound effects and stuff, and then hand it to a studio to actually draw, right? We’re like, it’s just been sitting in a box waiting to go. I have just been sitting on that going, no, I think I need to get like the movie out, and then boom, once the movie comes out, if there’s any success, then come out with that, but it’s sitting there. So anybody that wants to do animation, the first thing I’m going to do is say, hey, I’ve got this ready to tee up,” McFarlane said.
McFarlane also confirms that Keith David voices Spawn, while Hamill takes on a detective named Twitch.
It’s been a long, hard road out of development hell with his brand new Spawn feature, which Todd McFarlane had originally planned to direct. Jamie Foxx had been attached to play the title character at one point, but we have no idea if that’s still the plan as it’s been a couple of years since the last update.
Perhaps this mostly completed animated Spawn feature will see release first?
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