After leaving audiences hanging on the tease of his impending sequel arrival, the first look at Karl Urban’s Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat 2 has been revealed. Cage had been set up in the first movie’s ending, with Lewis Tan’s Cole Young heading off to Hollywood to recruit him for Earthrealm’s fight against the forces of Outworld. Urban was revealed to be lining up to join the Mortal Kombat 2 cast as Johnny in May 2023, with filming running from June that year to January 2024 after it was suspended due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike.

With just over eight months remaining until the movie’s release, the official Mortal Kombat Twitter account has shared a new poster for Mortal Kombat 2. The poster reveals the official first look at Urban’s Johnny Cage, putting him front and center for a fake movie enтιтled Uncaged Fury, while the caption hails “It’s Johnny ******* Cage.” Check out the poster below:

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What The Mortal Kombat 2 Poster Means For Johnny Cage

Urban Continues The First Movie’s Biggest Strength

Urban’s Johnny Cage has been one of the most talked-about elements of Mortal Kombat 2 even prior to his casting, given his absence from the first film. That said, the first poster is sure to not only come as a welcome reminder he will be back and part of the main roster in the sequel, but is also continuing one of the better-received elements of the 2021 reboot in delivering game-accurate representations of the various characters involved.

While the sequel tag in the first Mortal Kombat‘s ending certainly promised that Cage would at least look the part from the waist down, fans of both Urban and the games wondered whether they would also give his incarnation his iconic blonde locks and shave his beard, both of which the poster ᴀssures have become the case. Now, with Johnny having a wide range of costumes throughout the games, as he goes from action movie star to military leader, it will be interesting to see which the filmmakers have him don. Given the poster amplifies his movie star status, the former seems the more likely.

One of the more hidden elements to come from the Mortal Kombat 2 poster is the cast list situated at the bottom of the image, most notably that Hiroyuki Sanada, Joe Taslim, Tadanobu Asano and Chin Han are all listed in the “with” portion. Though not always the case, this portion of the cast list is generally reserved for actors who may not have held a big role in the project at hand. In the 2021 movie, Sanada, Taslim and Han were given similar billing, though Asano was not, potentially indicating the focus won’t be as much on them.

Our Take On The First Look At Karl Uban’s Johnny Cage

Mortal Kombat 2 Is Already On The Right Track

As much as I love Urban, I can’t deny there was a part of me that wondered if he would be the right fit for Johnny Cage, and I’m glad that the Mortal Kombat 2 poster has immediately put my fears to rest by showcasing the game-accurate look he’s got. The cast list seemingly confirming that Sanada’s Scorpion is yet again going to be underutilized in the sequel does make me a little disappointed, but if Jeremy Slater and Simon McQuoid can find a similarly impactful way to include him in a small dose, I can forgive this.

Source: Mortal Kombat/Twitter