Mortal Kombat 2: How Much Does Scorpion vs. Noob Saibot Factor Into the Sequel?

As glimpsed astatine the extremity of the caller Mortal Kombat II trailer, Scorpion volition face Noob Saibot, aka Bi-Han, successful the highly anticipated sequel. As Sub-Zero, Bi-Han (played by Joe Taslim) was slain by Scorpion/Hanzo Hasashi (Hiroyuki Sanada) astatine the extremity of the 2021 movie reboot. But Mortal Kombat fans ever knew they hadn’t truly seen the past of Bi-Han, particularly since Taslim had antecedently confirmed he’d signed a multi-picture woody to play the character.

Considering that Karl Urban’s Johnny Cage is the main protagonist of Mortal Kombat II, conscionable however overmuch volition the Scorpion-Noob Saibot subplot fig into the sequel, particularly since Hiroyuki Sanada has go an adjacent much in-demand (and award-winning) histrion since the archetypal movie acknowledgment to the occurrence of Shogun?

“Without giving immoderate crippled points away, they person a precise beardown past that was unresolved successful the archetypal movie that astir apt needs to beryllium resolved astatine immoderate constituent and whitethorn oregon whitethorn not beryllium resolved successful the 2nd movie,” Mortal Kombat II shaper Todd Garner precocious told IGN. “But their storylines are instrumental successful the crippled of the movie, which overall, does impact a tournament.”

Director Simon McQuoid confirmed that Scorpion “plays a pivotal relation successful this movie,” but added during his interrogation with america that “it's truly conscionable astir giving each quality a beardown crushed to beryllium successful the satellite and giving them a mode that each of them tin commencement successful 1 spot and extremity successful another. So we did that with Scorpion arsenic well. He does an astonishing job, Hiro again, and there's immoderate beauteous chaotic worldly helium does with Noob, and it's precise satisfying. It's breathtaking to cognize that the fans person got them waiting for them this fantastic epic combat that plays out.”

Garner cautioned that Scorpion is successful the movie arsenic overmuch arsenic Hiroyuki Sanada’s engaged docket allowed: “We would emotion to person had him adjacent mode much than we had him [in the sequel], but helium has a immense career. He's a legend, and truthful we recognize the value of his quality and wanted to springiness him his due, but besides recognize that this is for the astir portion successful this movie Johnny Cage's journey, and that therefore, past we had to usage Scorpion successful the smartest mode we perchance could deliberation of to person the astir interaction connected the story, which we hopefully person done, and springiness him his owed successful the warring and the existent turns and twists of the story.”

“Making movies involves physics, it involves existent life, it involves actors, it involves schedules, and it's not similar we tin conscionable prime and take the schedules of radical and get them arsenic overmuch arsenic we would hope,” the shaper added.

While Johnny Cage is the biggest of the games characters introduced successful Mortal Kombat II, he’s not the lone instrumentality favourite making their debut successful the rebooted movie franchise. Kitana is played by Adeline Rudolph successful the sequel, portion Tati Gabrielle plays her champion person and bodyguard Jade.

“Kitana is the ‘daughter’ successful inverted quotes of Shao Kahn and Sindel. We archer that story,” McQuoid said of his movie’s incarnation. “So we play retired her travel and from precise aboriginal connected to what that past means for our communicative we have.”

“Then we person Jade,” McQuoid continued, “and they're conscionable bringing a caller feeling and a caller tonal ingredients to the communicative and to the ambiance of what we're creating. And it conscionable made it consciousness much exotic and beauteous and absorbing and brutal. Not to accidental that our existing characters, I truly wanted to respect them passim it arsenic well. So it's conscionable astir fitting it each successful and calibrating and balancing up each their stories.”

Given that the archetypal movie teased Johnny Cage’s quality would beryllium successful the sequel, should fans expect a post-credits country successful Mortal Kombat II that could set-up different iconic games quality that could beryllium successful a 3rd film?

“No, it's not that benignant of movie. There is simply a coda, but again, what we're precise alert of, and this truly comes to a existent mentation of New Line and wherefore they're truthful great, is they don't expect to marque a sequel. We person to gain that right,” Garner said.

“So we don't presume that we're going to get different changeable astatine this due to the fact that who knows, right? If we've done our jobs similar we anticipation we person fixed the, again, restraints of physics and fund and everything else, and the assemblage tells america they enjoyed it capable to enactment it and springiness america the accidental to marque the sequel, past we will. But we're not going to springiness you immoderate post-sequence to beryllium like, ‘Oh, this is going to hap successful the sequel.’

Because hopefully, look, I volition accidental successful the aforesaid mode that the archetypal movie said, ‘Hey, we got to spell find Johnny Cage,’ determination is that thought astatine the extremity of this movie that this could continue. It's not similar we're peeling disconnected each the characters and saying, ‘Okay, we're done.’ Obviously we could bash much and we evidently person plans to bash much and cognize what we would privation to bash if we're fixed the accidental to bash more, and truthful if we're fixed that opportunity, past we will, but we don't privation to presume that we can.”

Read our exclusive Mortal Kombat II screen communicative for much revelations from the filmmakers and prima Karl Urban.

Mortal Kombat II opens successful theaters October 24, 2025.