At one point, this months Halloween-friendly horror offerings were meant to be balanced by another blood-soaked release, the highly anticipated upcoming video game adaptation Mortal Kombat II. Its premiere was pushed eight months in favor of a more promising box office window, which was a disappointment at the time, but has allowed even more fans to join in on the anticipation. Franchise co-creator Ed Boon’s latest round of hype-filled praise certainly doesn’t hurt anything, either.
In fact, Boon’s comments are now bouncing around inside my head and helping to stoke my already stockpiled excitement for the upcoming 2026 movie. Speaking with ScreenRant, the game programmer was asked how the sequel raises its predecessor’s bar for action sequences, and nothing about his answer sounded even minutely hesitant or unsure. Boon is all-in on Mortal Kombat II being a superior sequel, saying:
