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A third Mortal Kombat movie was announced last year by Mortal Kombat 2 screenwriter Jeremy Slater. But that announcement happened well before MK2 actually showed up in movie theaters and suffered lower-than-expected box-office returns. Hopefully, fans will still get the Mortal Kombat 3 promised by Mortal Kombat 2, and we'll find out exactly what happened to Liu Kang. Related Every single Fatality in Mortal Kombat 2, ranked The impalement-centric fatalities in Mortal Kombat 2 don't deliver a flawless victory, but enough of them get the Sicko stamp of approval.

Surprisingly, no. At the end of Mortal Kombat 2, Kitana now serves as the queen of Edenia, and our surviving heroes Sonya Blade, Johnny Cage, Baraka, Kano, and Raiden, set off on a mission to bring back their fallen friends. That includes the likes of Jax, Cole Young, and Kung Lao, all of whom perished during the Mortal Kombat tournament. Fortunately, our heroes have the necromancer Quan Chi as their prisoner — possibly even their ally? — to help bring back the dead. Meanwhile, Liu Kang, having seemingly ascended to fire god form, pledged to bring his shaolin bro Kung Lao from the Netherrealm,

This is a bummer. No, there is no post-credits sequel tease at the end of Mortal Kombat 2. That’s not a big surprise; the 2021 Mortal Kombat movie didn’t have one either. But for a franchise like MK, it sure feels like the filmmakers should be teasing something, like the return of Goro or Cole Young’s headless corpse rising from the acid pools in which his body was dumped. If Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie can tee up their next heroes, why not Mortal Kombat?

Jeremy Slater, who wrote the screenplay for Mortal Kombat 2, announced at New York Comic Con 2025 that Warner Bros. had already hired him to write “the next installment of Mortal Kombat.” Mortal Kombat movie producer Todd Garner has also strongly hinted at a Mortal Kombat 3, and other movies based on the franchise. He’s hinted at big changes for existing characters and the addition of new heroes and villains, including the likes of the purple ninja Rain. “We have an incredible fight sequence with Rain that we all want to do,” Garner said in an interview last year. There’s plenty of room for th