With less than two weeks left until the official launch of the new Mortal Kombat, the game’s companion live-action web series has been given a premiere date: April 12.
According to Hadoken.net, the first episode will be available via Machinima at 4PM PST, following a live stream event. Select actors from the series and show director Kevin Tancharoen will play Mortal Kombat during the stream, and then introduce the episode.
Kevin also directed and produced the popular unofficial Mortal Kombat: Rebirth fan short that garnered over 10 million views worldwide, is bringing the same directing style to this live-action web series.
Jeri Ryan, (Star Trek: Voyager) will reprise her role as the headstrong Lieutenant Sonya Blade from the unofficial fan short. She is joined by Michael Jai White (Spawn, Kill Bill, The Dark Knight) as Major Jackson Jax Briggs and Darren Shahlavi (300) as the sly and cunning Kano.
We’re waiting to hear back from Warner Bros. about the scheduling of the next eight episodes, but we imagine you’ll see more around the game’s April 19 launch day.
