Mortal Kombat 3 confirmed as director and cast address Mortal Kombat 2 delay

At the end of Mortal Kombat II’s New York Comic Con panel last Saturday, screenwriter Jeremy Slater revealed that New Line and Warner Bros. have already greenlit the next film, telling the crowd to show up to theaters next summer while he, director Simon McQuoid, and cast members Karl Urban, Adeline Rudolph, Tati Gabrielle, and Martyn Ford discussed sequel delays and teased what’s to come, with McQuoid explaining the shift from October to May 16, 2026, was due to being “a victim of our own success.”