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Información profesional. Ocupación. Director de cine. Conocido por. Mortal Kombat. [ editar datos en Wikidata] Simon McQuoid es un director de cine australiano. Es más conocido por dirigir Mortal Kombat (2021). 1 y dirigirá Mortal Kombat II (2024).
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Film director. producer. Years active. 2014–present. Simon McQuoid is an Australian film director and producer. He is best known for directing the 2021 reboot of Mortal Kombat and its 2025 upcoming sequel.
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In 17th-century Japan, assassins led by Bi-Han kill a rival clan led by Hanzo Hasashi, including Hanzo's family. After killing the attackers, Hanzo fights Bi-Han, who stabs him with his own kunai. Hanzo dies, and his soul is condemned to the Netherrealm. Raiden, God of Thunder, later takes Hanzo's surviving infant daughter to safety. In 2021, the r...
Development
In 1997, Robin Shou's original Mortal Kombat contract was a three-picture deal, and Threshold Entertainment's production on a second sequel was initially scheduled to commence shortly after the release of Annihilation, but it was shelved due to Annihilation's poor reception and disappointing box-office performance. Attempts to produce a third film since then were stuck in development hell with numerous script rewrites and storyline, cast, and crew changes. A November 2001 poll on the official...
Casting
Joe Taslim was the first actor cast for the production in July 2019, as Sub-Zero. In August, Mehcad Brooks, Tadanobu Asano, Sisi Stringer, and Ludi Lin were cast in the roles of Jax Briggs, Raiden, Mileena, and Liu Kang respectively. Later that month, Josh Lawson, Jessica McNamee, Chin Han and Hiroyuki Sanada were cast as Kano, Sonya Blade, Shang Tsung and Scorpion respectively, with Lewis Tan in the role of Cole Young, an original character created for the film. On September 16, 2019, it was...
Filming
Production took place at Adelaide Studios and other locations in South Australia, lasting from September 16 to December 13, 2019. In November 2020, Todd Garner stated that "we have more days to shoot" in a statement regarding the film's release delay.The film was shot on the ARRI ALEXA LF and Mini LF cameras with Panavision Anamorphic lenses.
The score for Mortal Kombat was composed by Benjamin Wallfisch. In March 2021, director Simon McQuoid revealed that Wallfisch actually began compositions for the film before he was officially hired on the project and that the film will include a new version of the track "Techno Syndrome" by The Immortals,produced by Wallfisch.
Marketing
On January 15, 2021, which was when the film was initially set to release prior to being delayed due the COVID-19 pandemic, Entertainment Weekly released a first look of the film, which contained several behind the scenes photos. On February 17, 2021, a series of character posters were released for the film, along with the next announcement that the film's first trailer would be released the following day. On February 18, 2021, the first red band trailer for the film was released online. The...
Theatrical and streaming
Mortal Kombat was theatrically released internationally, beginning on April 8, 2021, and was later released in the United States on April 23, 2021, in both theaters in Dolby Cinema, IMAX and 4DX and on HBO Max. The film was originally going to be released on March 5, 2021, before being moved up to January 15, 2021. In November 2020, producer Todd Garner confirmed that the film would be delayed until theaters are reopened due to the COVID-19 pandemic, before it was finally dated for release on...
Home media
Mortal Kombat was released on Digital HD on June 11, 2021, and on DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray by Warner Bros. Home Entertainmenton July 13, 2021.
Audience viewership
Following its U.S. release, Samba TV reported that 3.8 million households watched at least the first five minutes over its first three days. It was watched in 4.3 million households during its first week and 5.5 million households over the first 17 days, a record for an HBO Max title. By the end of its first month, the film had been streamed in over 5.6 million U.S. households. In January 2022, tech firm Akami reported that Mortal Kombatwas the fifth most pirated film of 2021.
Box office
Mortal Kombatgrossed $42.3 million in the United States and Canada, and $42.1 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $84.4 million. Release alongside Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train on April 23, 2021. Mortal Kombat was originally projected to gross $10–12 million in its domestic opening weekend, the film made $9 million from 3,073 theaters on its first day of release, increasing estimates to $19 million. It went on to debut to $23.3 million, topping the b...
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 55% of 298 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.4/10. The website's consensus reads: "Largely for fans of the source material but far from fatal(ity) flawed, Mortal Kombat revives the franchise in appropriately violent fashion." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 44 out of 100, based on 43 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. Audiences surveyed by CinemaScoregave the film an...
Joe Taslim, who played Sub-Zero in the film, revealed that he signed on for four sequels pending the success of the reboot. Co-writer Greg Russo told Collider that he saw the reboot as the start of a trilogy with the second film set during the Mortal Kombat tournament and the third film set post-tournament. On September 14, 2021, Variety reported t...
Mortal Kombat at IMDb- $84.4 million
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Mortal Kombat es una película perteneciente al género de fantasía oscura, artes marciales y gore estadounidense del año 2021 dirigida por Simon McQuoid, en su debut como director, a partir de un guion de Greg Russo y Dave Callaham y una historia de Oren Uziel y Russo. [4]
Mortal Kombat 2 es una próxima película de acción, aventura, ciencia ficción, artes marciales, fantasía oscura y gore estadounidense, dirigida por Simon McQuoid, escrita por Ed Boon, Jeremy Slater y John Tobias, y protagonizada por Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Joe Taslim, Ludi Lin, Mehcad Brooks, Karl Urban, Tati Gabrielle, Tadanobu Asano ...
Simon McQuoid: Greg Russo & David Callaham: Greg Russo & Oren Uziel James Wan, Todd Garner, Simon McQuoid & E. Bennett Walsh Mortal Kombat 2: October 24, 2025. Jeremy Slater: Todd Garner, James Wan, Simon McQuoid, E. Bennett Walsh & Toby Emmerich
5 de may. de 2021 · By Susannah Edelbaum. The latest iteration of Mortal Kombat, director Simon McQuoid ’s debut feature, follows the development of Cole Young (Lewis Tan), a young dad and failed MMA fighter unaware of his inheritance: as a direct descendent of 17th-century Japanese fighter Hanzo Hasashi (Hiroyuki Sanada), he’s one of Earthrealm’s ...
