He found success by helming the Mortal Kombat: Legacy web series, but it appears director Kevin Tancharoen won't be the filmmaker behind the long-awaited big screen reboot of the classic video game after all.

Tancharoen tweeted the following announcement Friday:While Tancharoen's tweet indicates there could be life for the project without him, it's certainly not a good step forward for the reboot to lose its biggest champion and the filmmaker who showed Mortal Kombat still had live-action potential left in it.