Warner Bros. is trying to build a new video games franchise with Mortal Komat. Taking live with the action of the bloody, brutal, beloved struggle to fight was published in 2021 when the pandemic was still a major factor that affects the box office. All the same, SB decided to move forward with Mortal Komatwhere Simon McKid returned directly. While monitoring, according to "Mortal Kombat II", is originally due to Heath theaters in October, it has been postponed to next summer and is currently scheduled to arrive in May 2026. Now, we know why.

In the report of The deadline Focusing on Following the director Jameseims Gun "Superman", "Man of Tomorrow", " Warner Bros. has been found to be very pleased with how the director takes over the "steel man" performed at the box office. Superman made $ 615 million worldwide, from this writing, hitting theaters in July. As it turns out, the studio hopes it can find a similar success with Mortal Kombat II next summer.

"Superman did so well for Warner Bros., which they were able to push Mortal Kom II to the new line by mid -May next year as a potential cane," the report said. It is not to say that the video game film will make money for a superhero film, but it is not the case. That believes that the film has the opportunity to compete in the middle of the summer season.

For what is worth, Warner Bros. had an Elleven Summer of the box office in 2025With a "final destination blood lines" ($ 310 million worldwide), "Weapons" ($ 260 million worldwide) and F1 ($ 623 million worldwide) all do big business, besides Superman. It is not difficult to imagine a world in which Mortal Komin II can imitate what "blood lines" did.

The decision to postpone a movie like this is usually not easy. Warner Bros. has already released the first trailer "Mortal Komin II" in July And he was preparing to free up a full, months -long marketing campaign. Perhaps Carl Urban's response like Nyoni Cage in the trailer made the WB believe the sequel could be a legitimate summer blockbuster. Synopsis for the film reads as follows:

This time, the fans' favorite champions are now joined by the Johnoni Cage himself against each other in the ultimate, non-state forbidden, painful battle to defeat the dark rule of Fao Khan threatening the very existence of the country and his defenders.

Urban Johnoni Cage seemingly to be the main character in the sequel, taking At the spotlight of Louis Tan Cole Young, who led Mortal Komat in 2021. Although it may not be good with the tan, the trailer seems to be very compliant with what the fans expected of the original games of the large screen adaptation.

It is also worth noting that the sequel was originally due to arrive on October 24. On that date, it will go down a week after "Black phone 2" and "Good Happiness". In addition to opening directly against the buzzing "Shelby Ox" And "Springsteen: Deliver me out of nowhere." Other great films such as "Predator: Badlands" and "The Running Man" are also due in early November. It is clear that the SB does not want "MK2" to get lost in the crowd.

Aside from Urban, the sequel cast includes Tadanobu Asano (Lord Reiden), Oeo Taslim (B-Han), Giroyuki (Scorn), Adelin Rudolph (Kitana), Essica McNami (Sonja Blade), Oshoos, (ADEAID), Damon Herman (Kuan Chi) and the Chan (Shang Jung).

"Mortal Komat II" affects the theaters on 15.05.2026.