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Mortal Kombat III is not a certainty, even though there's a screenplay in the works, warns writer
Just because he is working on the script doesn't mean that we'll definitely be getting Mortal Kombat 3.
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Mortal Kombat fans are living the good life right now. After a delay of several months, it is finally showtime for Karl Urban in Mortal Kombat II and, as we reported last year at New York Comic Con, work has already started on a third film in the franchise. However, the writer of the first two films wants to manage everyone’s expectations a little bit by warning that, despite the hype, Mortal Kombat 3 has not been green-lit by Warner Bros yet.
During a recent interview, Jeremy Slater discussed the studio’s decision to push back the Mortal Kombat II release date in the hopes that it would become a massive summer blockbuster. However, that show of faith, and the fact that Slater is already working on the script for Mortal Kombat 3, doesn’t mean that another sequel is definitely going to get made.
“We are not green-lit for a third movie yet,” he stressed. “When the initial test screening numbers came back last year and the studio saw how fans were responding to [Mortal Kombat 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 [Mortal Kombat 3], and I’m finishing a second draft right now. I’m very, very happy with it. In much the same way that we took lessons from the first one and tried to make 2 a much better movie, we’re now taking the lessons from 2.”
Mortal Kombat II, which sees Karl Urban star as fan-favorite Johnny Cage, is currently out in cinemas. However, if we want to see what Slater has in store for Mortal Kombat 3, we need to hope that this movie is a big hit at the box office... something that feels a little less likely after a disappointing opening weekend. Does this mean the end of the franchise? Of course not - but it does mean that if Mortal Kombat fans want the series to continue, there's one thing left to do: Fight.
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