Kändis-cameos är inget nytt i Mortal Kombat, utan redan 2019 speladesa Sonya Blade av Ronda Rousey i Mortal Kombat 11, och vi fick även självaste Arnold Schwarzenegger som Terminator. Nu, i Mortal Kombat 1, kan vi se fram emot John Cena som Peacemaker, J.K. Simmons som Omni Man och vi har redan Megan Fox i rollen som Nitara.
Ed Boon ville dock ha ännu fler cameos. I ett Rolling Stone med Rolling Stone avslöjade han att NetherRealm desperat försökte få med John Wick i spelet: "We tried to get - John Wick - in Mortal Kombat, and we didn't get it."
Boon vill dock gå ännu längre, och en av de önskedrömmar han hade var att varje karaktär skulle spelas av en känd skådespelare:
"One of the things that I entertained with this game - and this is the 10 out of 10 version - which we didn't do, was, 'What if every character in this game was played by an actor?' Like we got Keanu Reeves to play Kenshi... this is, like, pipe dream. We're not even thinking of their salaries and all that stuff. What if we made a game that had an actor, a famous, recognizable actor play every character and Johnny Cage was absolutely the one who would have been played by Jean-Claude Van Damme.
So, the thought did come to us. But at some point, I don't know if he would have wanted to do motion-capture work, or if he [says], 'Just scan my face and have somebody else do all the whatever stuff.' There are hundreds of lines of dialogue that they have to read. A lot of actors don't realize just how sophisticated video games are. When you sign up for it, you're not just signing up to go in one day, be in the recording studio for an hour, and you're done. It's like a real acting job."
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