Mortal Kombat 11: John Wick or Matrix Neo as playable characters? Keanu Reeves speaks out

Game news Mortal Kombat 11: John Wick or Matrix Neo as playable characters? Keanu Reeves speaks out

Published on 11/23/2021 10:11 PM

The collaborations between Mortal Kombat have been numerous, and we remember the addition of Terminator, lots of DC characters, Freddy Kruger, Rambo, Kratos, or even Jason Voorhees from Friday 13. But The Matrix’s John Wick and Neo never incorporated the list .

More than two years ago, more precisely in October 2019, Ed Boon, teasing enthusiast and co-creator of the license

Mortal Kombat had stated that he was would have liked to incorporate Keanu Reeves as Neo or John Wick in Mortal Kombat 11. But finally, and during the project seemed well advanced, It Hadn’t Happened Ed Boon couldn’t publicly state the reasons that prevented the studio from taking action.

We may have part of the answer, with a recent statement from one of the key players, Keanu Reeves. As part of the advertising and media campaign for the publication of Matrix resurrection, the actor was interviewed by Esquire magazine. During the exchange, Reporter asked question about Mortal Kombat

, and the possible inclusion of John Wick and Neo in the list. When asked if he would like to see the characters in an episode of the fighting games, he said:

If it were up to me No. Mortal Kombat is great in many ways, but I think … you know, Neo and John Wick, they do their stuff in their corners. And Mortal Kombat too.

You see, that clears it up a bit, even though the actor who first appeared in a video game as Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2077 doesn’t own the rights to the characters he plays. Whatever it is Integrating these characters is hard to imagine without looking like Keanu Reeves. And he owns the image rights for Keanu Reeves.

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