Mortal Kombat 2 Writer Reveals A Character Who Got Cut From The Script
Overview & Key Takeaways
The newly released Mortal Kombat 2 movie features numerous characters from the popular fighting game series--including Johnny Cage, Kitana, Sonya Blade, and Shao Kahn--and it could have had even more.
Screenwriter Jeremy Slater told GamesRadar that Tremor was "almost" included in the movie, with the character meant to fight Sonya Blade and ultimately meet his end. However, Slater said Tremor "just wasn't working," so he was cut in the scripting process.
"I've always liked Tremor and he's got really fun, really cool powers," Slater said. Those powers include "geokinetic" abilities that allow him to control rocks and metals.
The newly released Mortal Kombat 2 movie features numerous characters from the popular fighting game series--including Johnny Cage, Kitana, Sonya Blade, and Shao Kahn--and it could have had even more.
Screenwriter Jeremy Slater told GamesRadar that Tremor was "almost" included in the movie, with the character meant to fight Sonya Blade and ultimately meet his end. However, Slater said Tremor "just wasn't working," so he was cut in the scripting process.
"I've always liked Tremor and he's got really fun, really cool powers," Slater said. Those powers include "geokinetic" abilities that allow him to control rocks and metals.
Slater said the writing team swapped out Tremor for Sindel, who is Kitana's mother. Slater said the writers came to realize that Tremor was not being used "in an exciting enough way," but it all clicked when Slater opted to swap out Tremor for Sindel.
"It was one of those smack my own forehead moments of like, Tremor wasn't working because I wasn't able to devote enough time to sort of sell him as a character," he said. "Once we swapped [Tremor] out [for] Sindel, it immediately became more visceral, and there's just more skin in the game. And Sindel's powers were so much fun that it felt like she belonged in that pit of spikes in a way that never felt right with Tremor."
Mortal Kombat 2 released in theaters on May 8 and earned $40 million in North America for its opening weekend. It pulled in $23 million from international markets for a global start of $63 million. The movie had a reported production budget of $80 million, before marketing expenses, so it will seemingly need to keep performing well in the coming weeks to recoup its costs. That's just one part of the story, though, as Mortal Kombat 2 will eventually come to HBO Max and it could help drive subscribers to the service.
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