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Mortal Kombat 2 Will Be Written By Marvel’s ‘Moon Knight’ Writer

A few months after the premiere of the latest film adaptation of ‘Mortal Kombat‘, one of the films that have marked history the most, a sequel has been officially announced that will have Jeremy Slater as a screenwriter for this project, which has been quite a surprise. Jeremy Slater is the main writer of ‘Moon Knight’, known as ‘Moon Knight’, the long-awaited Disney+ series based on the Marvel comic. There is not much more information about the confirmation of ‘Mortal Kombat 2’, but what we do know is that they have the challenge of trying to overcome all of the above, something that will be really difficult.

Titles such as ‘The Lazarus Effect‘, ‘Fantastic four‘ Y ‘death note‘, which have not been as successful, but which have also been highly applauded works. He has also been a scriptwriter for different episodes of ‘Exorcist‘ Y ‘The Umbrella Academy‘, hence they wanted to trust his talent to be the main writer of ‘Mortal Kombat 2’.

Based on the popular video game franchise, ‘Mortal Kombat‘ It was directed by Simon McQuoid and written by Dave Callaham and Greg Russo, who already revealed that they had a plan to make a trilogy. The cast has been led by Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Joe Taslim, Mehcad Brooks, Ludi Lin, Chin Han, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Tadanobu Asano, among others. Also, Taslim has stated that he signed on for four films so it is likely that we will see new installments in the next few years, although nothing is really confirmed.

‘Mortal Kombat 2’ will be the best fighting movie

The premiere of ‘Mortal Kombat’ on April 23 in the United States was a complete success, especially since it was released simultaneously in the cinema and in hbo max. The film managed to be number 1 at the box office and got gross a total of $42.3 million in the United States, while in the rest of the world the total collection was 83.7 million dollars, a significant amount after the pandemic we have experienced. It is true that these numbers were not too high before, but now, with the drop in movie receipts, they were good figures.

Likewise, the fact that they are making the sequel confirms that it was a success, despite the fact that we do not have official data on its success on the HBO Max platform, but we assume that everything has been rolled so that they have decided to do ‘Mortal Kombat 2‘.

The idea of ​​the director, Simon McQuoid, was to offer the best fighting movie made, hence its production cost a total of 55 million dollars. And, although for some it fell short, the truth is that the film offered quite a show.

What will happen with this second part? The only thing we know at the moment is that Jeremy Slater will write the script and that, of course, he is very excited to join the project and the team: “More than excited to join this team! We’re building something bigger and better and bloodier that’s going to blow people’s minds,” Slater shared on Twitter after announcing his addition to the project.

On the other hand, LewisTan, the one in charge of interpreting the protagonist, has publicly dropped a comment that has given hope to the followers of the video game and the film “Wait to see what we have prepared for you!”, he commented. The rest of the actors have also wanted to share their own messages about the confirmation of the second installment.

Mind you, despite all the excitement, we still don’t know which actors will reprise roles in ‘Mortal Kombat 2‘ nor the story that will be told, although we do have a clue that was left to us in the first installment, the appearance of a character from the video game, one of the favorites, Johnny Cage, a martial arts expert and one of the seven characters originals.

For the rest, we will still have to wait to confirm the cast and the plot of this new action movie that is already underway.

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