The upcoming Mortal Kombat movie will feature “grounded realism” and characters you can connect with, as well as the expected ultra violence, according to starring actor Mehcad Brooks.

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Talking to podcaster Duncan Trussell on a recent episode , Brooks - who plays Jax in the film - explained that the Mortal Kombat movie is grounded in reality. He likens it to how Tim Burton’s Batman turned the comic book genre into “something dark, and grounded, and real, and based in physics.”“When I approached Jax I was like okay, well, he’s an assassin, he’s a killer, and he kills monsters, so he has to be a monster,” said Brooks. “And I was stuck on this Ernest Hemingway quote, and I’m sure I’m gonna f—k it up, but it goes along the lines of ‘Once you’ve hunted and killed trained men long enough, you have very little taste for anything else in the world,’ and that’s who Jax is.”“That’s how I found this grounded realism in him,” he added. “Who was he before he was hunting monsters?”He went on to explain how finding that grounding helps make a film that’s not what people would traditionally expect from Mortal Kombat, although he reassures that all the classic MK elements will still be present. “Yes you’re gonna get all the fatalities that you’re used to, all the fight moves that you wanna see - of course, we had to put all that stuff in there,” he said. “But you’re also getting a real story about real people that you can connect with and identify with, and identify with their struggles, and that’s the part that’s gonna be really unexpected."For more Mortal Kombat, check out the response from the cast as they wrapped up filming , and the full cast list to see who’s playing who.

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