In 2010 Kevin Tancharoen created a mock-trailer for a realistic Mortal Kombat film starring Michael Jai White and Jeri Ryan as Jackson "Jax" Briggs and Sonya "Sugar Lips" Blade, and it was good. So, in 2011 Tancharoen was hired by Warner Bros. to direct nine online episodes of Mortal Kombat: Legacy, a semi-realistic take on the Mortal Kombat universe, once again featuring White and Ryan in their respective roles, plus Battlestar Galactica's Tahmoh "Helo" Penikett and a bunch of other people nobody's ever heard of. Some of the episodes were good, like "Scorpion and Sub Zero," but others were Tarantino-inspired crap, like "Kitana & Mileena."

Now Warner Bros. is giving Tancharoen the chance to direct a new, full-length film based on his vision of Mortal Kombat and … that's good? Bad? Was the web series really good enough to warrant further expansion? I don't know. Every new stage in the development of Tancharoen's version of MK has required resetting the concept back to the beginning. At first Scorpion was going to be a modern-day assassin, but then he was frozen by Quan Chi in feudal Japan. Baraka (Obama?) was going to be a crazed plastic surgeon, but then he was a demon. Johnny Cage was going to be working undercover for the police, but then he was a Power Ranger. Do you see what I'm getting at? The movie probably won't jump off from where the web series ended, either, because that would confuse anyone who hasn't been following the development, so what was the point in investing ourselves in Tancharoen's series to begin with?

I guess what I'm feeling is just a little betrayed, a little angry, and kind of hungry. Hopefully the film can satisfy each of those.

Via Topless Robot.