1. - Chris Conrad, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, 1997. Ashby had beaten such luminaries as Tom Cruise, Johnny Deep and Jean-Claude Van Damme (how’d he get in there?) to the $20m debut of the Mortal Komnbat video-game franchise in 1994. Ashby was invited to reprise his role in the second film. Then, he read the script...