Jean-Claude Van Damme’s best cast is joining the upcoming Mortal Kombat game!

After introducing Nitara, the character played by Megan Fox, NetherRealm Studios, which produces the highly anticipated upcoming video game Mortal Kombat 1, now reveals Jean-Claude Van Damme: a certain Johnny Cage…

As ComingSoon reports, it was during the show’s “Hot Ones” episode with game series co-creator Ed Boone that the images were released. About six minutes in, Boone is asked about Jean-Claude Van Damme, and we see a character from the game: Johnny Cage, dressed in Frank Dux’s iconic outfit from Bloodsport, all footage from 1988. .

And see how it looks in the game:

If Johnny Cage doesn’t speak in a music video, we know it’s a good thing Jean Claude Van Damme Who lends his voice?

Did Jean-Claude Van Damme inspire the game?

Bloodsport, anything goes, Jean Claude Van Damme And Mortal Kombat share a history, as the first Mortal Kombat was originally supposed to be a game with him. As Boone explained (and explained several times before), the team wanted the Belgian actor to be the star of the game, and the opening pitch contained shots. Blood sport. This never came to fruition, which then led to the birth of Mortal Kombat without Van Damme. And since Johnny Cage has always seemed to be some kind of parody and/or homage to Jean-Claude Van Damme, things seem to have finally come together.

This isn’t the first time Mortal Kombat has featured characters based on actors. For example, Mortal Kombat 11 included the likes and voices of Lynden Ashby, Bridget Wilson, and Christopher Lambert, who respectively reprized their roles as Johnny Cage, Sonia Blade, and Lord Raiden, the latter in the 1995 Mortal Kombat film. Mortal Kombat X also asked Carl Weathers to bring Jax to life as an homage to his character Al Dillon in Predator.

Mortal Kombat 1 will be available on September 19, 2023.