With the debut of a short Mor­tal Kom­bat film titled Rebirth spec­u­la­tion has run ram­pant on the inter­net yes­ter­day. The nearly eight-minute clip fea­tured a very inter­est­ing and dark and gritty take on the fight­ing fran­chise. The short is directed by Kevin Tan­charoen and fea­tures a cast that includes Ian Anthony Dale (Scor­pion), Lateef Crow­der (Baraka), Mat Mullins (Johnny Cage), Jeri Ryan (Sonya Blade) and Michael jai White (Jax). Accord­ing to Jeri Ryan’s twit­ter­ing Rebirth isn’t a live-action trailer for the next Mor­tal Kom­bat game and it’s not a trailer for a new MK movie. Looks like an inde­pen­dent pro­duc­tion to sell Warner Broth­ers Tancharoen’s reimag­in­ing of the franchise.

So, there’s no guar­an­tee that there will be a reimag­in­ing or if there is that the same actors will play the char­ac­ters in a fea­ture film ver­sion. Despite all that, the ‘teaser’ looks like a huge suc­cess online. Lots of talk here and there and I have to admit, I like Tancharoen’s vision more than the first two films and I def­i­nitely like it more than that sorry excuse for a series titled Mor­tal Kom­bat: Con­quest. Any­way, enjoy the trailer: