Bad News for Mortal Kombat Fans; New Movie in 2025 at Earliest

Work on Mortal Kombat 2 is still on hold and will resume in 2024 at the earliest. Originally, shooting for the movie was supposed to begin as early as June 2023, and indeed it did. Shortly thereafter, an actors' strike broke out, which led to the halting of work. However, some fans assumed that since shooting would take place in Australia and the cast was international, Mortal Kombat 2 would avoid the problem of protests. This, however, did not happen (vide The Direct).

Back in July 2023, the executive director of the Australian Writers' Guild spoke out on the issue. Claire Pullen outlined the problem in terms of the approach the studios are taking toward screenwriters and actors. The giants would rather lose more money through stalled productions than end the conflict by agreeing to the strikers' proposals.

Still no agreement has been reached, which means that work on Mortal Kombat 2 will most likely not resume in 2023. If shooting begins early next year, the likely release date will be set for 2025. So far, only the screenwriters have reached a compromise with the studios, and the actors are still on strike.

Meanwhile, as reported by The Wrap, work is expected to resume in 2024 on, among others, Superman: Legacy and Minecraft. The same applies to Mortal Kombat 2, but in the current situation it is hard to judge whether these postponements will remain unchanged.

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