Mortal Kombat Producer on Characters That Didn't Make the Cut Mortal Kombat movie is absolutely stacked with talent and iconic characters, there are plenty more fighters in the franchise than could possibly have been included in a single film. Given the long development of the reboot, it should come as no surprise that there was once a time where other characters were in it, and while producer Todd Garner didn't list them all when asked about them during a set visit attended by ComicBook.com, he did mention one very specifically: Rain. "So we pulled characters out early, just because it felt like Rain was in the movie for a second," Garner said. "But Reptile's sort of like Rain and so it's like... And that was just a weird fight [...] So we had to pull that character out, which is like, that wouldn't have been a [main] character anyway. So things like that are like, 'Are we just doubling down on the same thing, or repeating ourselves just for the sake of it?'"