Mortal Kombat II Release Date Delayed to 2026

Mortal Kombat II‘s release date has officially been pushed back, with Warner Bros. announcing that the film has been moved out of 2025 entirely.

When is the new Mortal Kombat II release date?

According to Warner Bros. Pictures, the film’s new release date has been set for May 15, 2026. The new date is a significant change, with the film now being delayed over seven months and out of 2025 entirely and through most of the first quarter of 2026.

The news was announced alongside a new poster highlighting Kung Lao’s (Max Huang) hat, and a message that the “tournament demands a new time and place.” Check out the new poster for Mortal Kombat II below:

Mortal Kombat II is directed by Simon McQuoid, from a screenplay written by Jeremy Slater. The film is a sequel to 2021’s Mortal Kombat, and stars Karl Urban as Johnny Cage, deline Rudolph, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Ludi Lin, Mehcad Brooks, Tati Gabrielle, Lewis Tan, Damon Herriman, with Chin Han, Tadanobu Asano as Lord Raiden, Joe Taslim as Bi-Han, and Hiroyuki Sanada as Hanzo Hasashi and Scorpion.

“From New Line Cinema comes the latest high-stakes installment in the blockbuster video game franchise in all its brutal glory, Mortal Kombat II,” reads the film’s official logline. “This time, the fan favorite champions—now joined by Johnny Cage himself—are pitted against one another in the ultimate, no-holds barred, gory battle to defeat the dark rule of Shao Kahn that threatens the very existence of the Earthrealm and its defenders.”