Prepare for battle! Warner Bros. has announced the release date for “Mortal Kombat 2.” This action film will be released 4 and a half years after the first opus.
Johnny Cage will soon be arriving in your cinemas! Absent from the Mortal Kombat film released in May 2021, the character – played by Karl Urban (The Boys) – will be at the center of Mortal Kombat 2, the release date of which has just been announced by Warner Bros.
The second part of the new adaptation of the video game will be released in American theaters on October 24, 2025 (probably the 22nd in France), four and a half years after the first part.
Once again directed by Simon McQuoid, Mortal Kombat 2 should pick up directly where the first film left off: Cole Young (Lewis Tan) announces he is going to Hollywood to recruit a particular person. The camera then lingers on the poster for the film Citizen Cage worn by Johnny Cage whose face is not shown to us. To this day, we still don’t know anything about the plot.
A hero inspired by JCVD
The hero, inspired by Frank Dux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) from Bloodsport and played by Linden Ashby in the adaptation by Paul WS Anderson released in 1995, will be played here by Karl Urban. The New Zealand actor joins Lewis Tan (Cole Young), Jessica McNamee (Sonya Blade), Josh Lawson (Kano), Tadanobu Asano (Lord Raiden), Mehcad Brooks (Jax), Ludi Lin (Liu Kang), Chin Han ( Shang Tsung), Joe Taslim (Bi-Han/Sub-Zero) and Max Huang (Kung Lao).
Warner Bros. Mortal Kombat
Among the newcomers, Mortal Kombat 2 welcomes two veterans of The New Adventures of Sabrina, Tati Gabrielle (Uncharted, You) in the role of Jade and Adeline Rudolph who will play Kitana, but also Martyn Ford in the role of Shao Kahn, Damon Herriman in that of Quan Chi, Desmond Chiam as King Jerrod and Ana Thu Nguyen as Queen Sindel.
Inspired by the martial arts fighting video games created by Ed Boon and John Tobias in 1992, Mortal Kombat was released on VOD in May 2021 in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic and grossed $83 million worldwide.
Warner Bros also announced release dates for Supergirl (June 26, 2026), horror film Weapons from Barbarian director Zach Cregger (January 16, 2026), Drew Hancock’s Companion (January 10, 2025) and from the cosmic love story Love Me starring Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun, due in early 2025.
