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[[File:01-วัดพระศรีสรรเพชญ์.jpg|alt=|left|thumb|[[Wat Phra Si Sanphet]] was used in the film's opening for a fight between Shang Tsung and Liu Kang's brother]]
Though a number of top directors submitted pitches for the film, the producer chose an unknown director [[Paul W. S. Anderson]] after
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[[Cameron Diaz]] was originally cast as Sonya Blade, but dropped out due to a wrist injury and was replaced by Bridgette Wilson.<ref name="HolRepoKick">{{cite web |date=August 18, 2015 |last=Couch |first=Aaron |title='Mortal Kombat': Untold Story of the Movie That "Kicked the Hell" Out of Everyone |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/mortal-kombat-movie-oral-history-815287 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |access-date=September 14, 2016 }}</ref> Wilson had accepted a role in ''[[Billy Madison]]'' after being passed up in the ''Mortal Kombat'' auditions in favor of Diaz, and so had to fly out to the set the morning after her last day filming ''Billy Madison''.<ref name=LooperWilson>{{cite web |last=G. |first=Alex |title=Why Hollywood Won't Cast Bridgette Wilson-Sampras |url=https://www.looper.com/213916/why-hollywood-wont-cast-bridgette-wilson-sampras/ |website=[[Looper (website)|Looper]] |access-date=8 August 2021 |date=June 1, 2020}}</ref> [[Steve James (actor)|Steve James]] was originally cast to play Jaxx, but he died from [[pancreatic cancer]] a year before production on the film began.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chud.com/140242/chud-salutes-steve-james/ |title=CHUD Salutes… Steve James |publisher=CHUD|date= July 2, 2013|access-date=January 26, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130707003054/http://www.chud.com/140242/chud-salutes-steve-james/|archive-date=July 7, 2013}}</ref>
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