Superstar cameos and voice work aren’t uncharted territory for Mortal Kombat, however NetherRealm Studios goes all out for MK1 by casting actor Megan Fox because the returning Outworld vampire Nitara.
NRS revealed this piece of stories as we speak in a brand new video exhibiting off Nitara’s up to date search for MK1 and going behind the scenes with Fox within the vocal sales space for a style of what she brings to the morally grey character. And, in keeping with Fox, she “resonates” with the character regardless that it makes her discover areas of herself that she isn’t “snug” with.
“I actually like [Nitara], she’s a vampire which clearly resonates for no matter motive,” Fox stated. “It’s cool to be within the recreation as a result of I’m probably not simply voicing it. It is going to be like, she’s form of me.”
Fox has turn out to be well-known in current months for her obsession with blood, whether or not or not it’s by her partnership with Blizzard for a Diablo 4 marketing campaign centered round demise, joking about carcass-eating rituals, or the very fact she and her fiancé, singer Machine Gun Kelly, really drink one another’s blood—the latter of which really had “actual” vampires releasing a warning concerning the want for security within the course of.
The Transformers and soon-to-be Expend4bles star performs Nitara in a method that has followers excited to see the character in motion. Now, we’ll have to attend and see if it is a fully completely different tackle the character or if the vampire nonetheless preys on others to maintain herself alive whereas preventing for her personal causes.
This would be the first time Nitara has appeared as a playable character in over 17 years, relationship again to 2006’s Mortal Kombat: Armageddon. Since then, she has solely appeared as a cameo in Mortal Kombat 11—and as a personality within the 2021 movie.
The timing on this reveal can also be reasonably handy, with info like what seems to be the total MK1 roster and different particulars concerning the recreation leaking early on social media late final night time heading into the Sept. 14 launch.
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