{"id":11380,"date":"2011-02-14T13:02:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T21:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=11380"},"modified":"2011-02-14T13:02:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T21:02:55","slug":"more-mortal-kombat-casting-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/02\/more-mortal-kombat-casting-news\/","title":{"rendered":"More Mortal Kombat Casting News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although those who regularly follow <strong>Jeri Ryan<\/strong>&#8216;s Twitter feed already knew that she would be playing Sonya in a new series of the digital <em>Mortal Kombat<\/em>, a press release from Warner Premiere confirmed the news and provided more information on the project including which other actors have been cast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Kevin Tancharoen<\/strong> who directed and produced the popular, unofficial <em>Mortal Kombat: Rebirth<\/em> fan short that garnered over 10 million views worldwide,&#8221; said the press release, &#8220;is bringing the same immersive directing style to this live-action digital new media series. Fans will be able to delve deep into the history of the warriors they know and love including &#8216;Sub-Zero&#8217; and &#8216;Scorpion.&#8217; Shooting for <em>Mortal Kombat<\/em> is currently underway in Vancouver.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/011309JeriRyan1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11381\" title=\"011309JeriRyan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/011309JeriRyan1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a>Joining Ryan will be <strong>Michael Jai White<\/strong> (<em>The Dark Knight<\/em>) as Major Jackson &#8216;Jax&#8217; Briggs, and <strong>Darren Shahlavi<\/strong> (<em>300<\/em>) as Kano. &#8220;It&#8217;s extremely gratifying to have such talented actors playing these iconic roles,&#8221; said Kevin Tancharoen, Director, Producer and Co-Writer of <em>Mortal Kombat<\/em>.&#8221; &#8220;They will bring the essence of<em> Mortal Kombat <\/em>to life and gamers will be deeply immersed into the game&#8217;s universe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Mortal Kombat<\/em> digital series will be written by Tancharoen, <strong>Aaron Helbing<\/strong> and <strong>Todd Helbing<\/strong>, and will debut online this spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although those who regularly follow Jeri Ryan&#8216;s Twitter feed already knew that she would be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2406],"tags":[3262,2423],"class_list":["post-11380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-voy","tag-mortal-kombat","tag-ryan"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-voy\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: VOY<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: VOY","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11382,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380\/revisions\/11382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}