Get over here… because Mortal Kombat II is about to hit the 2026 movie schedule! A sequel to 2021’s Mortal Kombat, this upcoming video game adaption is set to continue the journey of Earthrealm’s champions and their fight against the forces of Outworld. Simon McQuoid is back in the director’s chair, and he’s aiming to give franchise devotees an experience as close to the games as possible (which is what the MKII trailer suggests). And, now, McQuoid is making me hopeful that one of the games’ most famous fatalities will finally appear.
Fatalities – the finishing moves that are activated at the end of a given match in the games – happen in a myriad of ways. They can come by way of specialized attacks belonging to certain characters, or they can happen when a player uses the environment to destroy an opponent. The latter of those two is known as a “stage fatality,” and there was one involving a certain pit that I was really hoping to see in the first movie. Simon McQuoid mentioned that stage while chatting with SFX Magazine on CinemaBlend, saying:
