MovieChat Forums > Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997) Discussion > Major cast Didnt return

Major cast Didnt return

posted 3 years ago by bigbadwolf666 (4707)
2 replies | jump to latest

Raiden, Cage, Sonya, Tsung, Shao, No Kintaro, baraka, for a movie that had some success. They should’ve reloaded on the sequels and the games. Instead they just went for cash-in rather than a passionate effort. Releasing it when the games were pretty much dead not giving the fans a true chance. Much like the games. Terrible storylines.
Had this and the games been better correlated it would've been successful which is scary seeing how successful they were.

The recastings were obviously inferior and loaded with Juice Heads with little to no significant plot. Just adding characters and special effects for the sake of it.

[–] TMC-4 (19408) 3 years ago

https://screenrant.com/mortal-kombat-movie-johnny-cage-linden-ashby-annihilation-sequel-missing/

The makers of Mortal Kombat: Annihilation should probably have taken that result to heart and skipped killing Johnny Cage entirely, but that's sadly the route they went. It's that creative decision that led to Linden Ashby declining to return to the role, for quite understandable reasons. He was offered the chance to return for the sequel, and was open to it, but upon reading the script, is said to have balked at the fact that he would get such a brief amount of screentime, and that Cage would go out in such an underwhelming fashion. In hindsight, he definitely made the right choice, as not having Mortal Kombat: Annihilation on one's resume is a blessing.

[–] Cognoscente (2463) 3 years ago

The recastings made it feel like a straight-to-video movie.