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Warner Bros. Premiere has announced that it will produce an all-new live-action Mortal Kombat production, set to begin filming next month in Vancouver. What's different about this new MK is that it won't be a new movie or TV show. Instead, the new Mortal Kombat will be delivered online as a web series.

And what's very cool about this MK series is that it's going to be directed by Kevin Tancharoen, the filmmaker who made Mortal Kombat: Rebirth and released it online last summer. If you may recall, MKR rebooted the game/film franchise in a darker, Seven-ish take. Michael Jai White (Black Dynamite), Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager), high production values and solid action scenes made the Internet sit up and take notice, wondering if this was a viral marketing move by Mortal Kombat's new owners, Warner Bros. It turns out that Tancharoen was the creative force behind Mortal Kombat: Rebirth as a way to convince its owners that there was still life to be found in the IP.

While the same director behidn Mortal Kombat: Rebirth will be calling action on the set of the new Mortal Kombat web series, these new web episodes will serve to promote the upcoming new video game being released by Warner Bros. Interactive and due out in April. WB Premiere said that the webisodes will explore new avenues of the franchise's most well-received characters, like Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade, but any further detail on the creative concept of the eppys weren't mentioned.

If you missed your first chance to watch Mortal Kombat: Rebirth, you're just a click away from changing that.