A sequel to the 2021 video game adaptation is officially in the works at New Line Cinema, Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter confirmed. A different screenwriter is attached to the project: Jeremy Slater, who is the writer of Disney+’s next Marvel series Moon Knight.
Last year’s Mortal Kombat was directed by Simon McQuoid and written by Greg Russo and Dave Callaham with a story by Oren Uziel.
It was released simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max in April, debuting at No. 1 at the box office and amassing the biggest opening weekend streaming numbers of all the day-and-date releases brought to the platform last year. (Mortal Kombat outdid viewership for titles like Godzilla vs. Kong, The Suicide Squad, The Matrix Resurrections and Dune.)
In a May interview with IGN, Brad Wilson, WarnerMedia’s executive vice president of growth and revenue, reacted to Mortal Kombat exceeding expectations. “Mortal Kombat was an interesting title for us because I will say that while we expected it to do well, we did not expect it to do as well as it did. It’s been one of our top assets on the platform,” he said at the time.