An excellent and dark (if a little exposition-filled) live-action video emerged on the ‘net yesterday featuring characters from the classic Mortal Kombat franchise, and clearly had something to do with Mortal Kombat thanks to the words ‘Mortal’ and ‘Kombat’ appearing right at the end to clue us in.

Details were a little shaky as far as what the video was meant for, seeing as how it clocked in at over seven minutes (too long to be a simple trailer) and it included known actors (too important to be in a simple fan film).

Thankfully, one of the actors involved in the project, Jeri Ryan, (who portrayed Sonya Blade near the end of the video, and would be better known as ‘Seven of Nine’ from Star Trek: Voyager) made things a little clearer in a series of Twitter posts:

“Okay, so… Mortal Kombat,” Ryan began.

“It’s not a game trailer. Actually was made for the director to sell WB on his vision for a reimagined MK film.”

“More MK FAQs: I did it as a favor to a friend. No idea yet what WB’s reaction to it was. And I’m not sure how you can contact WB to push them to make it. But you guys are resourceful…! ;-)”

It was additionally revealed that the short film was directed by Kevin Tancharoen, who’s past work includes the remake of Fame last year.

Source: Jeri Ryan on Twitter via Kotaku