Looking to land yourself that dream gig in Hollywood? These days it seems like the best way to reach that goal is to take matters into your own hands. Just direct your own short film and throw it up on YouTube, and if the view count is high enough, studios will come knocking — regardless of whether or not the final product is actually any good. Okay, I’ll admit that’s a little bit of a cynical way to look at things. I was not a big fan of Kevin Tancharoen’s self-funded short film Mortal Kombat: Rebirth, and I still haven’t watched all of the web series that it spawned, Mortal Kombat: Legacy. But now he has been offered the chance to reboot the Mortal Kombat franchise for real, and that’s all he really wanted. So yeah, we’re getting a brand new Mortal Kombat film from the director of Fame and Glee: The 3D Concert Movie. Are you psyched or what?

According to Deadline, Warner Brothers has hired Kevin Tancharoen to direct the movie from a script written by his partner Oren Uziel. Uziel wrote both Rebirth and Legacy, as well as a spec script he sold to Sony called The Kitchen Sink, which is a mashup of vampires, zombies and aliens. Ugh.

The real question here is whether not the same cast will be returning for the feature film. While it would be cool to see Michael Jai White lead a studio film, something tells me that they’ll need a few more big names in the mix in order to get this thing off the ground. Then again, looking at how all of the other movies based on fighting games have turned out in recent years (Tekken, The King of Fighters, DOA: Dead or Alive), maybe this one will be kept fairly low budget as well. Personally I think I’d rather see a true sequel to Mortal Kombat: Annihilation! What do you think? Is this good news, and are you excited to finally see a darker version of Mortal Kombat on the big screen