Mortal Kombat Reboot Star Promises Brutal And Iconic Fatalities With just a few months to go until Mortal Kombat makes its long-awaited return to cinema screens, various members of the film’s crew have started steadily sharing details about the reboot. This April, Earthrealm’s finest warriors will participate in the franchise’s titular tournament in order to halt an invasion from Outworld, but just how true to the games in terms of unbridled gore and violence can a live-action adaptation really be? Well, according to director Simon McQuoid and actor Lewis Tan – who plays the wholly new character Cole Young in the movie – it was decided at an early stage that there would be no holding back for this interpretation of NetherRealm Studios’ iconic fighting game. And naturally, staying faithful to the source material meant getting the US Motion Picture Association to grant a PG-13 rating was always going to be off the table from the get-go.