Coming from a Kotaku interview with creator, Kevin Tancharoen...

Kotaku: Speaking of feature films, how are you going to try and make the Mortal Kombat movie feel distinct from Legacy?

Tancharoen: Well, they’re going to be completely separate storylines. It was something we were very conscious about. I don’t want them to rely on each other because there’s going to be a lot of people who go see the feature who are not necessarily going to have watched 20 episodes of the online series.

I also feel like Legacy should live on its own. In a perfect world, I’d be doing longer episodes and plotting it out like a Game of Thrones type show where main characters do die. If I attached the movie to it, I think it would hurt the chances of it doing that.P

With the film we wanted to do its own universe, and it’s going to have a lot of the mythology that’s from the game, but multiple layers that we’re adding on top of it so that the Mortal Kombat mythology can push forward. Because it’s been around for 20-plus years and we just want to add new developments so that it stays fresh.