Mortal Kombat: Rebirth

This viral is currently doing the rounds like typhoid fever in a prison camp. You’d be forgiven for thinking this is a trailer for an upcoming movie, or possibly even a new game release, but it is in fact just a pitch to the Warner Brothers studios, after they acquired the rights along with the Midway company last year. Far grittier in content than the earlier Mortal Kombat incarnations, the short was produced on a short budget using largely donated time, money and equipment, and shot over the period of a couple of days. You can read a fuller interview with the director Kevin Tachareon, whose previous work is pretty much limited to the remake of FAME, over on this site.

For whatever reasons I have some fond memories of the first film: maybe it was the fact that I was a big fan of the games at the time, or perhaps the Enter the Dragon nod of the plot, or perhaps just watching Christopher Lambert trying to be funny. Whatever the case may be, on the basis of that preview Tachareon certainly deserves to be given the reboot reins, if indeed Warner Brothers have any plans in that regard.