MOVIE NEWS – Although loved by many, the 2021 movie missed some big jumps and important aspects of the game – and Mortal Kombat 2 is about to change that.

The upcoming Mortal Kombat 2 movie will feature one of the most essential parts of the video game it’s based on that was conspicuously and strangely missing from the first movie: the Mortal Kombat tournament itself! You’d think it would be hard to make a Mortal Kombat movie without the actual titular tournament, but in 2021, it did. But the returning star, Lewis Tan, has now confirmed that there will be “a tournament” in the sequel as well as “100 times better in the second movie based on what we learned from the first.”.

Mortal Kombat 2 will continue with the once-downed mixed martial artist Cole Young, as he and a group of other fighters must defend the Earth Empire against Outworld. Not much is known about the plot yet, but Tan has now revealed to Collider that the sequel will be “more ramped up” and contain a lot more “wild, crazy nonsense” than its arguably tame predecessor.

“I would say the tone is slightly different. It’s a little more ramped up. Like I said, it’s hard to tackle and navigate that storyline because they did it with a new character that’s not in the game, right? It’s like, whose story do we tell? How do we tell it? How do we introduce this to the audience of people that maybe don’t know Mortal Kombat as well as some of the fans? We tackled that problem in the first movie, and now it’s just off to the races. We can just go for it.”

“So, the second movie has wild, crazy nonsense and is incredible.”

Directed by Simon McQuoid and written by Jeremy Slater, Mortal Kombat 2 stars Lewis Tan as Cole Young, Jessica McNamee as Sonya Blade, Mehcad Brooks as Jackson “Jax” Briggs, Tadanobu Asano as Raiden, Ludi Lin as Liu Kang, Chin Han as Shang Tsung, Joe Taslim as Bi-Han/Noob Saibot, Hiroyuki Sanada as Hanzo Hasashi/Scorpion, Karl Urban as Johnny Cage, Josh Lawson as Kano, Tati Gabrielle as Jade and Adeline Rudolph as Kitana.

Mortal Kombat 2 is scheduled to hit theaters on October 24, 2025.

Source: Collider