By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Hollywood studio New Line has began engaged on a sequel to its current hit film “Mortal Kombat”.
The studio has employed Jeremy Slater, who most not too long ago labored on Disney Plus’ upcoming collection “Moon Knight”, to put in writing “Mortal Kombat 2”, reported Deadline.
“Beyond excited to be joining this team! We’re building something bigger and better and bloodier that’s going to blow people’s minds,” Slater tweeted.
His current scripting credit embrace the Netflix movie “Uprising” with Travis Knight directing. He is at present adapting Stephen King’s “The Tommyknockers” for Universal and James Wan.
Slater additionally developed “The Umbrella Academy” for Netflix and was creator and co-showrunner of “The Exorcist” on Fox.
“Mortal Kombat”, which was launched theatrically by Warner Bros in 2021, was based mostly on the online game phenomenon created by Ed Boon and John Tobias.
It featured an ensemble forged of Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Joe Taslim, Mehcad Brooks, Ludi Lin, Tadanobu Asano and Chin Han.
The movie was directed by Simon McQuoid, who produced with Todd Garner, E. Bennett Walsh and Wan.
