Nearly a year later, Warner Bros has officially greenlit a follow-up to last year’s Mortal Kombat. Making nearly $84 million at the global box office against a $55 million budget usually won’t warrant a sequel. However, Mortal Kombat achieved such numbers despite being released at a time when theaters were still closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. What’s even more amazing is that Mortal Kombat was released simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max. Now, many consider Mortal Kombat as one of the best video game movies ever released, with the potential to be a series. According to Deadline, New Line has hired Moon Knight’s scribe, Jeremy Slater, to pen the script for the upcoming Mortal Kombat sequel. Unfortunately, Deadline’s report did not contain other important details about the Mortal Kombat sequel. Naturally, the plot should pick up from the first film, paving the way for Johnny Cage, among other recruits. Of course, with more than two decades worth of story content to pull from, Jeremy has no shortage of inspiration for where he wants to take the sequel’s story. Then again, will the story even change at all? The Mortal Kombat games have always revolved around a group of fighters defending the Earth against Outworld’s combatants. What is interesting here is that since Shang Tsung lost, we might just see Mortal Kombat’s other big baddie, Shao Kahn appear. If this is the case, then Mortal Kombat’s creator, Ed Boon, thinks that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson would nail the role of Outerworld’s ruler perfectly. Some fans even think that this is Boon’s way of confirming that The Rock is part of the cast for the Mortal Kombat sequel after the Black Adam star teased that he is working on a new video game movie. In other news, NetherRealm Studios hasn’t announced its next project yet. The last that we heard from NetherRealm was that it was working on Mortal Kombat 12. But, according to the Nvidia GeForce Now leak, NetherRealm might release Mortal Kombat 12 and Injustice 3 sometime in 2023.
