Variety<\/a>. The first happens early on in the movie, and sees Cole Young (Lewis Tan) brutally dispatched by Shao Kahn (Martyn Ford).<\/p>\nKahn also disposes of another major character \u2013 Ludi Lin’s Liu Kang. But as he perishes in flames, his fate is left decidedly open-ended. Those familiar with the games, of course, will be acutely aware of the character’s re-emergence as the Fire God.<\/p>\n
To that end, Slater says Liu Kang will be back in some form in the upcoming (and undated) Mortal Kombat 3.<\/p>\n
“We always had planned to kill him in this movie,” Slater admitted. “We always knew that we would be bringing Liu Kang back in some regard in the third movie.”<\/p>\n
Yet, it appears the original vision for Liu Kang’s death was something that was ultimately changed in the final version. Now, there’s a little more wiggle room for Liu Kang to return as something other than a revenant \u2013 and maybe take his rightful place among Mortal Kombat’s collection of deities.<\/p>\n
“We did wind up altering his death a little bit to make it more of a choice,” Slater revealed. “So we\u2019re not sure if he actually died or did he ascend to some other plane? What actually happened to him in that moment is absolutely a mystery that\u2019s going to be explored in Mortal Kombat 3.”<\/p>\n
Mortal Kombat 2 is now in theatres.<\/p>\n
Mortal Kombat isn’t the only cinematic kombatant that made its name on consoles. For more, check out our guide to upcoming video game movies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Mortal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[210373,18,117,19,17,71745,210370,43268,210372,327,210371],"class_list":["post-480923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-cole-young","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jeremy-slater","tag-liu-kang","tag-mortal-kombat","tag-mortal-kombat-3","tag-movies","tag-shao-kahn"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116561915908542218","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}