A brand new featurette for Mortal Kombat II has been launched, promising the largest, baddest, and bloodiest adaptation but. The long-awaited sequel to the 2021 movie was not too long ago delayed when Warner Bros. opted to maneuver it from its October 24, 2025, launch date to Might 15, 2026. Contemplating the primary Mortal Kombat was initially set for launch in 2020 earlier than being delayed as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, this franchise has developed a behavior of popping out lengthy after manufacturing wrapped.
The fan account Mortal Kombat World posted a promo for Mortal Kombat II on X, which might be seen beneath. The video options interviews from lots of the movie’s forged, together with Karl City (Johnny Cage), Martyn Ford (Shao Khan), Adeline Rudolph (Kitanna), Max Haung (Kung Lao), Lewis Tan (Cole Younger), Hiroyuki Sanada (Scorpion), together with the movie’s director, Simon McQuaid. The featurette highlights Mortal Kombat II’s large scale, the assorted fights, and, after all, the brutal fatalities. See the promo beneath.
‘Mortal Kombat II’ Will Be Bloodier & Greater Than Ever
Mortal Kombat II has centered a lot of its promotional materials on reassuring followers that it’ll ship the final word Mortal Kombat expertise on display screen. The earlier movie was criticized by many for its determination to exclude the titular match and give attention to an authentic character, Cole Younger, versus one of many franchise’s wealthy roster of fighters. Mortal Kombat II appears to appropriate that with the movie being a large match to the dying, bringing in franchise favourite character Johnny Cage, and placing him entrance and heart within the advertising and marketing.
The upcoming motion sequel is definitely trying to be a much bigger film, bringing in characters like Baraka, Jade, and a resurrected Sub-Zero as Noob Saibot. Franchise creator Ed Boon revealed that the movie will really feel like a online game, together with an on-screen tracker for audiences to maintain observe of the place every fighter is positioned within the match. Regardless of arriving 5 years after the earlier movie, and shall be opening two entire years after principal images was accomplished, Mortal Kombat II will hopefully be well worth the wait.
Warner Bros.’ determination to delay Mortal Kombat II reveals quite a lot of confidence within the model, as they’ve moved the movie to be certainly one of their main summer time tentpoles. The truth is, they’re releasing it the identical weekend that New Line Cinema, the identical manufacturing firm behind Mortal Kombat II, launched Closing Vacation spot: Bloodlines, which opened to a formidable $51.6 million in its opening weekend. With Mortal Kombat being the most-watched movie on HBO Max from Warner’s 2021 slate, even surpassing Dune and Godzilla vs. Kong, Mortal Kombat II is poised to be a field workplace smash hit.

- Launch Date
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Might 15, 2026
- Runtime
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116 Minutes
- Writers
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Jeremy Slater
- Producers
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E. Bennett Walsh, Toby Emmerich, Todd Garner, James Wan
- Franchise(s)
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Mortal Kombat