{"id":74265,"date":"2025-10-12T18:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/74265\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T18:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:27:09","slug":"mortal-kombat-3-movie-confirmed-before-the-release-of-mortal-kombat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/74265\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortal Kombat 3 movie confirmed before the release of Mortal Kombat 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second Mortal Kombat movie isn’t even out yet, but Warner Bros. is reportedly “so excited” and “so convinced there’s a giant fanbase waiting for it”, writer and executive producer Jeremy Slater has already been hired to pen a third film.<\/p>\n

Slater confirmed the news himself at a panel at New York Comic-Con. Deadline<\/a> has also confirmed New Line is “already gearing up” to expand the franchise.<\/p>\n

Mortal Kombat 2 – Red Band trailer.Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

“Our friends at New Line and Warner Bros. are so happy with this movie, they are so excited, they’re so convinced there is a giant fanbase waiting for it, that they’ve already hired me to start writing the next instalment,” Slater announced.<\/p>\n

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The Mortal Kombat 2<\/a> movie was set to hit cinemas on October 24th<\/a>, but it has now been delayed by several months to May 15th, 2026. Test screenings have reportedly been “strong”, but a busy October schedule is likely behind the decision to push back the release date to a more favourable mid-year position.<\/p>\n

A follow-up to 2021’s live-action Mortal Kombat movie was announced back in January 2021<\/a>, with Slater – head writer on Disney+’s Moon Knight series – confirmed to be handling the script. Simon McQuoid remains on directing duties after helming the first movie. To date, New Line’s three Mortal Kombat-flavoured movies have generated $257.8m (\u00a3190.9m) collectively, with its Red Band trailer \u2013 embedded above \u2013 racking up a record-breaking 106.8m views in just 24 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second Mortal Kombat movie isn’t even out yet, but Warner Bros. is reportedly “so excited” and “so…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-74265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}