'Mortal Kombat II' Will Now Arrive in Theaters Next Summer

Instead of fighting on October 24 this year, Warner Bros. and New Line’s Mortal Kombat 2 will now take place on May 15, 2026, toward the beginning of next summer.

What? Why is a highly anticipated sequel that received record-breaking views for a red-band teaser (107 million worldwide) being postponed until next year? That’s exactly what the Simon McQuoid-directed follow-up is expected to deliver in mid-May, rather than remaining in the crowded late-October window that includes the next Colleen Hoover feature film, Paramount’s Regretting You, and the Jeremy Allen White Bruce Springsteen film, Springsteen Deliver Me From Nowhere, from 20th Century Studios. Additionally, the following weekend is Halloween, which isn’t exactly a great time to go to the movies.

With Final Destination: Bloodlines opening to a franchise record of $51.6M (the film was also the best in series with a record $138.1M U.S./$301M WW take), mid-May proved to be a lucrative time frame for Warner Bros./New Line this past summer. New Line’s three Mortal Kombat films have made $257.8 million worldwide to date.

We also know that research screenings for the sequel, which features Karl Urban as Johnny Cage, along with Adeline Rudolph, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Ludi Lin, Mehcad Brooks, Tati Gabrielle, Lewis Tan, and Damon Herriman, as well as Joe Taslim as Bi-Han, Hiroyuki Sanada as Hanzo Hasashi and Scorpion, and Chin Han and Tadanobu Asano as Lord Raiden, have been very successful.

Is God Is from Amazon MGM Studios and an unnamed Neon theatrical movie will compete with Mortal Kombat II. The date RSVP was always present in ComScore for Warners.

Based on the videogame made by Ed Boon and John Tobias, the screenplay was written by Jeremy Slater. Todd Garner, James Wan, Toby Emmerich, E. Bennett Walsh, and McQuoid are the producers. Jeremy Slater, Lawrence Kasanoff, Judson Scott, and Michael Clear are EPs.

Blurb: In part two, the dark tyranny of Shao Kahn, which threatens the very life of the Earth world and its defenders, is defeated by the fan favorite champions—now joined by Johnny Cage himself—in the final, bloody, no-holds-barred battle.