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Warner Bros.'s Mortal Kombat II has an "absolute core goal": to make it feel like "a full feature-length" version of one specific scene from the original movie
Director Simon McQuoid says Mortal Kombat II will be like a longer version of the Sub-Zero versus Scorpion prologue from the first movie
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Remember that awesome opening sequence in the 2021 Mortal Kombat film? The Sub-Zero versus Scorpion fight was a great way to kick the film off, letting audiences know that they were in for a wild ride. The sequence was intense and didn’t let you catch your breath for a moment.
If you’re a fan of that opening, then you’re going to love Mortal Kombat II. According to the director of the new film, the sequel is going to feel like a feature-length version of that insane opening sequence.
“The goal was after the first one came out, really, the absolute core goal was to make Mortal Kombat II feel like a full feature-length version of the tone we created in the opening of Mortal Kombat I,” Mortal Kombat II director Simon McQuoid says during a panel at New York Comic Con. “We really felt that we just scratched the surface. There is so much to Mortal Kombat. There is so much to the lore. There is so much to work with that I thought, well, we can just expand everything onto an even greater scale this time around.”
“And really, it was about pushing those boundaries with everything. I wanted much more emotion with the characters, so there was much higher highs and much lower lows. I wanted us to journey through all of the realms and all of the different places and the different levels and the different environments that you can go in Mortal Kombat. I wanted us to spend more time in those places, and to see that and to be able to use the treasure trove that you’ve created over the years.”
Mortal Kombat II hits theaters on May 15, 2026.
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