‘Mortal Kombat 1’ returns ‘Terminator 2’ star Robert Patrick to T-1000 role

Robert Patrick certainly gets props for returning to a role after such a large swath of time.

The Terminator 2: Judgement Day star, who portrayed the T-1000 assassin made of liquid metal, is revisiting the part 33 years after the 1991 sci-fi classic. Patrick will voice and lend his likeness to T-1000 in an expansion to the Mortal Kombat 1 video game, subtitled Khaos Reigns.

As it happens, Patrick also played the role in the Terminator 2 arcade game from the ’90s, so he’s no stranger to gaming.

Patrick’s character was revealed in a trailer for Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns that came during the title’s panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday. T-1000 will be one of six playable characters featured in the Kombat Pack 2, which also includes Conan the Barbarian in the likeness of Arnold Schwarzenegger, and a Ghostface killer from the Scream franchise that’s voiced by longtime Scream voice actor Roger L. Jackson.

Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns will be released digitally on Sep. 24 at 11 a.m. ET/8 a.m. PT for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC (Steam and Epic Games Store).

Patrick was more recently seen in episodes of Amazon’s Jack Reacher series, Netflix’s The Night Agent, and HBO’s Peacemaker.

The Terminator franchise, meanwhile, is expanding with a new anime series called Terminator Zero, the showrunner for which revealed to Entertainment Weekly that it very much takes inspiration from Terminator 2.

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“There’s a completely valid version of the Terminator franchise where the Terminator is synonymous with Jason [Voorhees] and Freddy [Krueger], where he is this unrelenting serial killer,” Mattson Tomlin told EW. “There’s a little bit of Friday the 13th in here. There’s a little bit of Michael Myers [from Halloween] in here” — or Patrick’s T-1000.