‘Mortal Kombat II’ Scribe Already Hard at Work on a Script for Part 3

Mortal Kombat II is in theaters now from Warner Bros., and at first glance, it seems to be a knockout punch for the studio. We reported earlier this morning that the sequel has already pulled in over $63 million worldwide. It still has a bit to go before it tops the reported budget of $80 million, but the film is well on its way. If it does well enough, that could mean another sequel. And that’s something scribe Jeremy Slater (Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire) is already hard at work on.

While speaking with THR, Slater spoke about the potential for a third film, though one is not yet green-lit. “Yeah, we are not green-lit for a third movie yet,” said Slater. “When the initial test screening numbers came back last year and the studio saw how fans were responding to II, I think they realized that there’s a potential here for this to be an ongoing franchise. So they commissioned me to start working on a script for III, and I’m finishing a second draft right now.“

Continued Slater, “I’m very, very happy with it. In the same way that we took lessons from the first one and tried to make II a much better movie, we’re now taking the lessons from II. We’re taking some of the fan reactions from early screenings to make III even bigger and even more satisfying. We want to continue to raise the bar for ourselves along the way.“

While I didn’t personally love Mortal Kombat II (read my review), I do agree that Slater did a good job of raising the bar with his script. That has me hopeful that a third movie would deliver even more gruesome fatalities and thrilling action.

Added Slater, “As much as it hurts to say goodbye to some of these characters, the great thing about as a franchise is that death is never final, as we see in this movie.“