{"id":51651,"date":"2026-05-12T03:23:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=51651"},"modified":"2026-05-12T03:23:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:23:35","slug":"mortal-kombat-3-not-confirmed-yet-but-writer-is-nearly-done-with-its-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=51651","title":{"rendered":"Mortal Kombat 3 Not Confirmed Yet, But Writer Is Nearly Done With Its Script"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1179\/11799911\/4693050-movie.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mortal Kombat 2 is in theaters now and it&#8217;s making millions at the box office, but will there be a third entry in the new series based on the popular video game franchise? A report said Mortal Kombat writer Jeremy Slater was coming back for a third movie, but it has not been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, director Simon McQuoid said in an interview prior to Mortal Kombat 2&#8217;s release on May 8 that he doesn&#8217;t want to be &#8220;overly confident&#8221; about a possible third movie. Slater, meanwhile, said he&#8217;s nearly finished with a new draft for a third movie&#8217;s script, should New Line decide to greenlight it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never want to be cocky about how anything&#8217;s going to land or play. You think about it, and you theorize it,&#8221; he told Entertainment Weekly.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/mortal-kombat-3-not-confirmed-yet-but-director-sees-lots-of-potential-for-more-stories\/1100-6539882\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mortal Kombat 2 is in theaters now and it&#8217;s making millions at the box office, but will there be a third entry in the new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3093,3153,3152,2062,534],"class_list":["post-51651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-confirmed","tag-kombat","tag-mortal","tag-script","tag-writer","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}