Mortal Kombat: Legacy

With the "concept trailer," Mortal Kombat: Rebirth the director Kevin Tancharoen, who, without the studio's participation in the making of the short, showed Warner Bros. (who holds the rights to MK) what he would do, if given the chance to make a new Mortal Kombat feature film.

Warner Bros. took notice of Tancharoen's work and the positive attention it got, though a movie is not the result. Instead, Bloody Disgusting reports that Tancharoen will be directing an official, Warner Bros. produced, 10-episode Mortal Kombat webseries. Tancharoen, Todd Helbing and Aaron Helbing will write the webseries, while Michael Jai White will reprise his role from the short as Jax.

Bloody Disgusting said they hear Shang Tsung, Liu Kang , Sub Zero , Durak , Kabal , Kitana , Mileena and Scorpion will also appear, with casting underway. It's not clear if any cast members besides White will return from the short, which will films in Vancouver starting in Fevruary of 2011.

Bloody Disgusting writes, "The only plot details we could conjure up is that a few Earthlings will fight to save the planet from Shao Kahn and Shang Tsung, two Gods ruling over parallel universes, or something to that effect." This is the a curious part of the story, given how the trailer was much more rooted in a real world take on the Mortal Kombat story.

Reference

 * http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/23052
 * http://uk.tv.ign.com/articles/114/1144234p1.html