Kevin Tancharoen is an American director, producer, screenwriter, dancer, and choreographer. On September 29, 2011, New Line Cinema/Warner Bros. announced that Tancharoen would be helming a big-screen adaptation of Mortal Kombat after he created the successful web series Mortal Kombat: Legacy, although he dropped out of the project in 2013.

Mortal Kombat is an American media franchise centered on a series of fighting video games originally developed by Midway Games in 1992.