{"id":120117,"date":"2025-08-30T05:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/120117\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T05:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:28:07","slug":"warner-bros-shifts-mortal-kombat-ii-release-date-to-summer-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/120117\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Shifts ‘Mortal Kombat II’ Release Date to Summer 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Johnny Cage (Karl Urban)<\/a> will have to wait for showtime just a little longer than originally anticipated, as Mortal Kombat II<\/a> will bow out of 2025\u2019s fall movie release schedule, instead opening in May 2026.<\/p>\n

The Warner Bros., New Line, and Atomic Monster production was originally slated to be released on October 24 of this year<\/a>, but that is no longer the case. According to Deadline<\/a>, it\u2019s not a reflection of the film\u2019s quality, as the trade reports the film has been testing well, but rather a pivot to bank on the success of the early summer window it saw with Final Destination Bloodlines. The New Line horror flick cultivated a solid box office debut of $51.6 million after opening in mid-May.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, the sequel to 2021\u2019s Mortal Kombat will now open on May 15, 2026.<\/p>\n

The film stars Urban as Cage\u2014a casting many have been anticipating since the first movie\u2014and will feature returning stars Lewis Tan (Cole Young), Ludi Lin (Liu Kang), Jessica McNamee (Sonya Blade), Mehcad Brooks (Jax), Josh Lawson (Kano), Chin Han (Shang Tsung), Joe Taslim (Bi-Han), Tadanobu Asano (Lord Raiden), and Hiroyuki Sanada (Hanzo Hasashi and Scorpion). The ensemble is joined by newcomers Tati Gabrielle (Jade) and Adeline Rudolph (Kitana).<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johnny Cage (Karl Urban) will have to wait for showtime just a little longer than originally anticipated, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,13980,13982,5251],"class_list":["post-120117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-karl-urban","tag-mortal-kombat-2","tag-warner-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}