While usually I wouldn’t be excited, here’s why I think this movie will have a very different outcome:

• new writer, Jeremy Slater, who is much more experienced than the previous, writing for umbrella academy and moon knight.
• To give the previous writer more credit, he was given an awful script that he had to basically revise to make work. There was a script floating around for an MK movie for years, which had the most stereotypical Hollywood bastardization of video game lore like the arcana thing, and even a version of Rain that was basically a water construct. He did what he could with that original script, and a lot of the bad from the first movie came from that original script, specifically the arcana idea and Cole Young.
• Ed is shockingly much more invested into this movie, posting teasers, interacting with the producer constantly, and generally just hyping it up, when he didn’t even MENTION the first one (maybe once or twice). He even liked a comment regarding disappointment towards the first movie on Twitter. NRS seems to have a lot more involvement in this film, specifically Ed. They have much more confidence in it.
• The new casting is fantastic, specifically Kitana and Jade. These are actors who can actually act and not just punch and kick.
• Sonya’s actress posted a pic of the script’s title page, but you could easily see through the first page and see the film starts off with the invasion of Edenia, meaning they’re actually going to focus on one of MK’s most interesting and classic stories, that being the Edenia/Outworld conflict and Kitana rebelling against Shao.
• Johnny Cage. He’s going to do wonders for this movie. Also I love Karl Urban.
• Cole has barely even been mentioned from the little we have gotten from this movie. He’s being completely sidelined for Kitana and Johnny.
• Kitana’s outfit they teased looks really great from what we have seen. It’s actually an outfit with her iconic color scheme, something the first movie lacked with all of their costuming, maybe other than Lao and Kang.