John Cena Is Officially Confirmed to Voice Peacemaker in ‘Mortal Kombat 1’

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In modern Hollywood, it’s not uncommon for WWE stars to become movie stars, mainly because they have already built their reputation and recognition as celebrities through WWE. John Cena is certainly one of those stars. He started his career as an actor in 2006’s ‘The Marine,’ and he gained further recognition with ‘Trainwreck,’ ‘Bumblebee,’ and the two latest installments of the ‘Fast & Furious’ franchise. However, he won’t be remembered for any of these roles as much as he’s going to be with the role of Christopher Smith, aka Peacemaker, in DC Extended Universe.

John Cena debuted as Peacemaker in 2021’s ‘The Suicide Squad,’ written and directed by the current co-CEO of DC Studios, James Gunn. Cena’s performance received positive feedback, and many fans agreed that Cena found a role that suited him the best, which Cena proved even more in 2022’s spin-off series ‘Peacemaker,’ which is set to eventually return for the second season after Gunn finishes his work on ‘Superman: Legacy.’

‘Mortal Kombat 1’ director confirms Cena’s return as Peacemaker!

While we’re waiting for Cena to return as Peacemaker in live-action, gamers will have a chance to use him as a playable character in the upcoming video game ‘Mortal Kombat 1,’ developed by NetherRealm Studios. Peacemaker is one of the few guest characters who will be added to the game through Season Pass.

While Peacemaker’s appearance in the game was confirmed a while ago, the game’s director Ed Boon recently confirmed for IGN that Cena would indeed reprise the role of Peacemaker in the game, and JK Simmons will also reprise the role of Omni-Man, another guest character, from the ‘Invincible’ animated series. These guest characters won’t be featured in the game’s story mode, so we aren’t expecting a lot of dialogue, but at least actors got to record grunts and the introduction sentences we hear before every fight in the game.

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Ed Boon is one of the original co-creators of the ‘Mortal Kombat’ franchise. After Midway Games, the franchise’s original developer, filed for bankruptcy, the franchise was taken over by NetherRealm Studios, who developed all the franchise’s games since 2011’s ‘Mortal Kombat 9.’ Boon remained attached to the franchise to this day, and he’s currently working as the creative director for NetherRealm Studios.

‘Mortal Kombat 1’ is set to be released on September 19, 2023, for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PC, and Nintendo Switch. The game won’t be released on last-gen consoles, PS4 and Xbox One. Peacemaker will be added to the game subsequently through DLC.

Are you looking forward to ‘Mortal Kombat 1’? Will you play as Peacemaker once he’s added to the game through DLC?

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.

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