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Warner Bros. Reportedly Looking to Build Out the ‘Mortal Kombat’ Cinematic Universe
Released in theaters and on HBO Max back in April, the James Wan-produced Mortal Kombat battled its way to $83 million at the worldwide box office, with the film also proving to be a hit on the HBO Max streaming service. You may be thinking that Warner Bros. is likely looking to build out the universe with follow-up movies, and indeed that seems to be the case.
Variety notes this week in a much larger piece about Dune and its simultaneous release on HBO Max and in theaters, “Other films that had a hybrid release still have talks of sequels, with Warner Bros. looking to develop other installments in its Mortal Kombat universe.”
There’s not much to go on here at this time, but it would seem that Warner Bros. is at the very least interested in more live-action Mortal Kombat projects. This year’s movie had a post-credits tease of Johnny Cage making an appearance in a future sequel, and star Joe Taslim had recently revealed that he’s already signed on for a handful of sequels should the Warner Bros. movie prove successful enough to warrant them actually being made. As for what Taslim himself wants next, he proposes a prequel movie centered on his character Bi-Han/Sub-Zero.
Mind you, nothing is confirmed or set in stone at this time, but it’s likely that the strong HBO Max numbers are leading Warner Bros. to consider what could come next from the franchise. After all, keep in mind that we haven’t even seen a proper tournament yet…
Stay tuned for more as we learn it.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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