Mortal Kombat, som en videospilserie, er kendt for sine easter eggs og ekstra godbidder, hvoraf nogle blev så populære gennem årene, at de blomstrede op som nøgleelementer i den bredere fortælling. Uanset om det er Reptile, Noob Saibot eller noget mere nichepræget, så har der været masser af lækkerier gennem årene, hvoraf mange har fundet deres plads på det store lærred i de seneste live-action-film.
I den forbindelse, med Mortal Kombat 2, der får premiere i biograferne den 8. maj, har vi for nylig haft mulighed for at stille nogle spørgsmål til castet og de nøglekreative bag projektet, herunder Mortal Kombat-mesteren Ed Boon og Mortal Kombat 2-instruktøren Simon McQuoid, blandt andet om hvordan efterfølgeren vil gribe det an med de mange easter eggs, vi forventer fra spillene.
Boon startede med at sige: "Simon did something really clever that - I shouldn't give it away but - if you see the IMAX version of the movie and you're a fan of the games, you will go crazy when you see what's in there. But littered throughout the film are a hundred Easter eggs that are in the game. I think a lot of people are going to watch the film multiple times. I bet you there's going to be a list somewhere on Twitter or something or like that. To me, that's such a fan service to people who are fans of the games."
McQuoid tilføjede: "It was just a constant process of looking at the decades of lore that Ed and his guys have created and just constantly mining that and seeing what we could use and seeing how we could fold it in and layer it into the film and the story. I think what we were trying to do was make Fatalities, and any even Easter eggs and camera moves, anything that was from the game, we wanted it to have an emotional impact, we wanted it to mean something beyond just, "oh, that looks cool". Those Fatalities arrive at certain points, very key story points and so we're always trying to give them some sort of amplification just so they resonate more for the audience watching the story."
Du kan se en trailer for Mortal Kombat 2 nedenfor og følg med for mere dækning af filmen, efterhånden som vi nærmer os premieredatoen.
