ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke with Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match producer Rick Morales about the animated action movie
Tyler Treese: I wanted to get your thoughts on Johnny Cage as a protagonist. Obviously, he’s one of the more popular characters, but he has a personality that could become grating if the shtick was a little too much. How was it, finding that balancing act is him as the leading man?I totally agree with you. I think that’s kind of part of his charm. He’s full of himself.
I think that was the whole point of doing this one is it’s a little bit more of a character exploration now. Johnny is the fun guy that you’d want to hang out with at the party. He’s also noble in that he’s loyal to a certain extent and, going into his past with the bullying and all that, you see where he came from, what he was dealing with and helps you see how he views the world. That was all interesting to me.
Oh, I think the potential is always there. We’ve made four films and I think we’ve barely scratched the surface of what this thing is. There’s any number of ways that you can go with it and be radically different than what we’ve done so far. I hope that happens. Jeremy and I have a ton of ideas of where we might like to go next.
Oh, it was wonderful. I mean, he’s a great and iconic voice, right? Everybody knows his voice straight away. It’s undeniable. Since we’re doing something in the ’80s timeframe and we’ve got Jennifer Grey playing Jennifer Grey … I can’t remember if it was Wes , our voice director, that brought up Gilbert, but when he did, it was like, “Oh yeah, that’s so funny. That’s great.” Because it’s this foul-mouthed agent. Here you have the voice of Iago just dropping F-bomb after F-bomb.
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