Mortal Kombat 1 will feature Jean-Claude Van Damme as Johnny Cage

Mortal Kombat 1., the next game in NetherRealm’s 30-year-old fighting game franchise, is traveling back in time, centuries before the events of the known Mortal Kombat timeline. Johnny Cage, a series mainstay, will be joining the ranks of ancient warriors such as Raiden, Mileena Kitana and Kung Lao despite this time change.

The fact that Jean-Claude Van Damme, who plays Johnny Cage on the show, will appear in MK1A character skin will help you to customize your game.

Van Damme’s appearance in Mortal Kombat 1. closes a specific loop in MK’s history, because the Belgian martial artist was partly the inspiration for the original Mortal KombatJohnny Cage is the Hollywood icon of this film.

“He was supposed to be Johnny Cage,” Mortal Kombat series co-creator Ed Boon said in an interview with Polygon last year. Developers at Midway pitched the idea to Van Damme, but it never panned out, Boon said: “We took images of Bloodsport and talked about digitized graphics and how it’s going to be [Van Damme]In the game. At some stage he left. We asked a few times later, perhaps as recent as, [Mortal Kombat 9]It was a no-brainer for him to join the team. For some reason, it just never came through.” Apparently, Van Damme has changed his mind.

“The fiction behind Mortal Kombat was kind of already in development even prior to us chatting with Van Damme, and when he ended up not being involved, we just kind of marched ahead,” series co-creator John Tobias said in 2019. “So the idea of his involvement was he was either going to play himself in the game, in the fiction of the game, or he was going to play a character in the fiction of the game. His character is eventually what became Johnny Cage.”

Cage was played by the martial artist Daniel Pesina for the Mortal Kombat 1 and 2 games. Lindy Ashby would play Cage in 1995. Mortal KombatFilm adaptation Ashby reprised his role of Cage as Ashby in Mortal Kombat 11, thanks to NetherRealm’s Klassic MK Movie skin pack.) Actor Karl Urban will reportedly embody Cage in the sequel to 2021’s Mortal Kombat movie.

How can Johnny Cage or an ancestor find their way into history hundreds of years ago? That remains to be seen — and whether Van Damme will voice a version of Cage — but will be revealed when Mortal Kombat 1.This September, launch your website.

Van Damme’s Cage skin will be included with the game’s Kombat Pack add-on, which is included with the Mortal Kombat 1. Premium Edition (priced at $109.99) and Kollector’s Edition (priced at $249.99). Standard edition is priced at $99.99. Mortal Kombat 1.The price is $69.99 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 Windows PC and Xbox Series X.