Cole Young was created for the 2021 Mortal Kombat movie, but he should be killed off in Mortal Kombat 2. The sequel is now officially confirmed to be happening, and it's come as a bit of a surprise to many. After all, Mortal Kombat 2021 was far from a box office hit, earning only $83 million worldwide on a budget of $55 million, which after marketing costs and other expenses, would be far from profitable. Reviews were also mixed to poor, earning a mere 54 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
What seems to have saved Mortal Kombat 2021 from ending up as just another failed Hollywood reboot attempt is its somewhat unlikely status as being the most-streamed of Warner Bros.' 2021 simultaneous streaming/theatrical movie releases. Whether that means Mortal Kombat 2 will end up sent straight to HBO Max is unclear, but if a Mortal Kombat sequel is going to work — and avoid the pitfalls of 1997's abysmal Mortal Kombat: Annihilation — it needs to keep what worked about the reboot. Most notably, the R-rated gore and violence need to be left intact.
The Wave Report presently has 64,861 views for Mortal Kombat across 27 videos, with the game making up 8 hours of published video on his channel. This makes up 4.09% of Mortal Kombat content that The Wave Report has uploaded to YouTube.
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