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Mortal Kombat II<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s release date delay has to do with James Gunn\u2019s Superman<\/a> movie.<\/p>\n Mortal Kombat II will hit theaters in 2026. The movie, which serves as a sequel to 2021\u2019s Mortal Kombat, was originally scheduled to be released on October 24, 2025; the film, however, has been pushed back and now arrives on May 15, 2025, from Warner Bros. Pictures.<\/p>\n While there was no reason stated for Mortal Kombat II\u2019s delay when the announcement was made, a new report for Deadline<\/a> suggests that it may be because of Superman\u2019s financial success.<\/p>\n The article reads, \u201cSuperman\u00a0did so well for Warner Bros. that they were able to push New Line\u2019s\u00a0Mortal Kombat II\u00a0to mid-May next year as potential tentpole; the studio already reportedly in the black this year in regards to ROI, sources tell Deadline, before Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s Leonardo DiCaprio political action pic\u00a0One Battle After Another\u00a0opens.\u201d<\/p>\n Superman has grossed approximately $614.4 million globally. A follow-up movie, Man of Tomorrow, is in the works and will see David Corenswet and Lex Luthor reprise their respective roles as the Man of Steel and Lex Luthor. That movie arrives on July 9, 2027.<\/p>\n Mortal Kombat II, meanwhile, comes from director Simon McQuoid. Based on the popular video game series created by Ed Boon and John Tobias, the cast of the movie includes Karl Urban as Johnny Cage, Adeline Rudolph as Kitana, Jessica McNamee as Sonya Blade, Josh Lawson as Kano, Ludi Lin as Liu Kang, Mehcad Brooks as Jax, Tati Gabrielle as Jade, Lewis Tan as Cole Young, and more.<\/p>\n The 2021 Mortal Kombat<\/a> movie made approximately $84.4 million globally. The only other movie currently dated for May 15, 2026, is a Sterling K. Brown and Janelle Mon\u00e1e-starring thriller titled Is God Is; although, Lucasfilm\u2019s The Mandalorian and Grogu then arrives the following week.<\/p>\n Originally reported by Brandon Schreur at SuperHeroHype<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Mortal Kombat II Delay Reason Revealed<\/a> appeared first on ComingSoon.net – Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mortal Kombat II\u2019s release date delay has to do with James Gunn\u2019s Superman movie. Mortal Kombat II will hit theaters in 2026. The movie, which serves as a sequel to 2021\u2019s Mortal Kombat, was originally scheduled to be released on October 24, 2025; the film, however, has been pushed back and now arrives on May […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2017924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[358359,306876,327381],"class_list":["post-2017923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-mortal-kombat","tag-warner-bros","tag-warner-bros-pictures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Mortal-Kombat-II-Delay-Reason-Revealed.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2017923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2017924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Why was Mortal Kombat II\u2019s release date delayed?<\/h2>\n