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I’ve been saying it over and over again, but he’s one of my favourite characters in the games. I in particular was excited to get more time to spend with Sub-Zero. Stryker, Jade and characters like that, Kung Lao, we wanted to expand the world and show a lot more. Those were the easy ones and then it became like who else can we bring in that fans would appreciate seeing and that we could do something cool with.

Mortal kombat realms and characters movie#

Those are guys that, and that’s already a big cast, we knew we wanted to follow and develop and we get late seeds in the first movie for the relationship with Johnny and Sonya and wanted to explore that more. It’s a difficult decision, but for me Scorpion, Liu Kang, Sonya, Johnny, Jax was a character that I really wanted more of in the sequel because we just didn’t get to do much with him in that first film. There are a number of characters that were in this film that didn’t make the cut because it was just too packed and there was not enough space for them. We come with proposals and for this movie, this movie is just packed with characters and ideas and big set pieces. Yeah, it’s a discussion that we had also with NetherRealm, with Ed Boon. Aside from making it focused on Liu Kang, how did you choose who will appear, who else will have the focus or even when you do the Mortal Kombat matches, who will fight one another? Talking about Liu Kang as the centre of the franchise, Mortal Kombat has such a large roster of characters. I wanted to get into the question of how does he deal with that? We just let it go that way because I do feel like Liu Kang is the centre of this universe, really. It became very clear very early on that if we were to do a second film it was going to be Liu Kang focused because that just naturally felt like the right way for that story to develop. He’s such an important character, you know? And so as we talked about developing that first movie, Jeremy and I were of course talking about if this happened then this would happen later on and follow Liu Kang. When we started the first film, as we started to talk about what the story was and how it was going to be following Scorpion and this and that, Liu Kang kept sticking his head in because he’s unavoidable. How did you begin developing the idea of continuing the journeys of Scorpion and Liu Kang in particular among the other characters? Now Battle of the Realms continues the story from Scorpion’s Revenge. And that’s why it endures, because of its quality. They’ve really stayed on top with keeping that stuff modern and exciting. The look, the feel, just the way they play. And then also the gameplay! The games have been so good and they just keep getting better and better. It’s got cyborgs and monsters and ninjas and soldiers! It’s got something for everyone literally.

Rick Morales: I just think the characters and the world they’ve created are all drawn from sources that people are familiar with.

Why do you think this franchise’s appeal has been so enduring?

Ricky Church: Mortal Kombat has been around for nearly 30 years now with next year being the 30th anniversary. We got the chance to speak with the film’s producer Rick Morales on the almost 30-year legacy of the Mortal Kombat franchise, working with creator Ed Boon on which iconic characters to use, adapting the characters fighting styles into the animation and more. The film sees Liu Kang, Sonya Blade, Johnny Cage and the other defenders of Earthrealm challenged by Shao Khan to one final Mortal Kombat, determining forever the fate of Earthrealm even as a greater threat to all the realms loom over them. Next week sees the release of the animated film Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms, the sequel to last year’s Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge. Ricky Church chats with Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms producer Rick Morales…