Director Kevin Tancharoen made waves on the Internet back in 2010 with a professional looking, yet unofficial fan short called "Mortal Kombat: Rebirth." Turns out that good things can happen when you draw the kind of excited response Tancharoen did with his mini flick. MK Publisher Warner Bros. confirmed new reports of a forthcoming web series this morning, pegging the director as the visionary behind them. 
 
Just don't expect these future installments to be as free as the pilot episode. Future episodes will be "available this spring through online digital retailers from Warner Bros. Digital Distribution." Shooting will begin on the series in Vancouver next month.

Director Kevin Tancharoen made waves on the Internet back in 2010 with a professional looking, yet unofficial fan short called "Mortal Kombat: Rebirth." Turns out that good things can happen when you draw the kind of excited response Tancharoen did with his mini flick. MK Publisher Warner Bros. confirmed new reports of a forthcoming web series this morning, pegging the director as the visionary behind them. 
 
Just don't expect these future installments to be as free as the pilot episode. Future episodes will be "available this spring through online digital retailers from Warner Bros. Digital Distribution." Shooting will begin on the series in Vancouver next month.

neat 
 
EDIT: I've had this quest for ages. I'm just a jerk.

Why isn't Jeff writing this?

:D 

This is clearly going to be really good or really bad. I'm leaning towards the former. I ain't buying them though.

Paid web series? Pass.

Paid? What happened with running 15 second ads before videos?

Woah now. Paid web series? That's kind of lame. I'll be more interested when they're on some kind of DVD set.

I really hope that Michael Jai White and Lateef Crowder will still be involved.

I can dig. Just hope they stick to what he began with.
 
Need more Michael Jai White and Jeri Ryan!

Anyone else really not into this more "realistic" interpretation of MK? The last thing I thought MK needed was more grounding in reality. Its supposed to be outlandish and fantastical.

I was totally excited until I read the part about paying for future episodes

" Anyone else really not into this more "realistic" interpretation of MK? The last thing I thought MK needed was more grounding in reality. Its supposed to be outlandish and fantastical. "

Awesome.

Reptile's story was pretty disgusting but I feel like they dropped the ball with Baraka. I'm just not feeling that character this time around. I am really interested to see how they do sub zero in this more realistic tone but if they turn sub zero into a wannabe Mr. Freeze then lul.

kind of interesting, not sure If I would want to pay money for it though, we will see.

What the fuck is the point of a web-series if its paid? I really don't want to pay for media that isn't live!

Why not make it a cable TV movie? I'm not paying for a digital short. Whiskey Media and Amazon is the farthest I'll go towards giving money to a website.

" @El_Derrico: @AgentofChaos: @JustinSane311: @benjaebe:   What are the chances of this web series coming with the actual Mortal Kombat game?  Like a bonus DVD/Blu-Ray with the collector's edition? "

Oh Hell yes! I loved the first short film, this oughta be fun.

" I was totally excited until I read the part about paying for future episodes "

I will totally pay for this. :)

They should put the first episode as a bonus on Mortal Kombat's disc.

Heaven forbid we pay for something that clearly has a very high budget!

I'm not sure where the people thought the money to make something this high-end was going to come from...if you want quality content that didn't look like it was shot on someone's cellphone starring his friends and parents, it MIGHT cost them something so it MIGHT cost you something. 
Or just wait til they release the DVD.

" Heaven forbid we pay for something that clearly has a very high budget! "

Should be pretty interesting to watch.

Well I didn't like it   : |

I'll pay for this shift trice if I have to!! Surely one of the finest 10 minutes of 2010 =)

Looking forward to the web series!

Good for him!

I would rather watch MK Annihilation than a generic modern thriller (which is to say, I don't on either).

Make it about 50% cooler and 50% less gross, and then maybe we'll see.
But right now I'm not really that interested in learning about how the evil ninja "Smoke" is really just the FBI codename for "Wallace Lee Smokinski," a crazy homeless child molester with a horribly burned face. 
 
Also I guess he also knows Krav Maga for some reason so ROUND ONE FIGHTTTT

Jeri Ryan is the win!

" Oh Hell yes! I loved the first short film, this oughta be fun. "

Dear People born after the internet,
 
People used money to make products back in the day, and you pay money to receive those products. This is how the world will have to work again for us to continue as a species. Learn to pay for things you enjoy. Not everything is free with a banner ad you never click.

Interesting but I'm not paying for it

I hope in the web series they include Noob Saibot, and it turns out he's a psychotic, body-building siamese twin played by Ed Boon and John Tobias. (maybe an actor for tobias - Ed Norton?)