There's an animated Mortal Kombat movie coming in the first half of this year

Warner Bros is turning developer NetherRealm's long-running, infamously gruesome fighting series Mortal Kombat into an animated movie, and it's set to arrive in the first half of this year.

That's according to the Hollywood Reporter, which writes that Warner Bros' upcoming animated effort will be titled Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge, and will, as you might well imagine, reunite some of the series' most popular characters.

Joel McHale, perhaps best known as Community's Jeff Winger, will voice Johnny Cage, and Dexter's Jennifer Carpenter will lend her vocal talents to Sonya Blade.

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