He will be in the "reboot movie" anyway. So, maybe they're just trying to distance the series from the movie. The storyline's are not going to be conected (at the moment at least).
A few more pics...
Casper Van Dien as Johnny Cage, along Garrett Warren (no named role yet)...
Casper along Kevin, the director of MK...
John Wusah as Bi-Han/Elder Sub-Zero (not 100% confirmed yet)
Eric Jacobus (Stryker), Kevin Tancharoen (series director and Casper Van Dien (Johnny Cage) on set...
Samantha Jo/Sam Tjhia (Kitana) and Michelle Lee (Mileena) getting ready for filming...
Dan Southworth as..not known yet.
In the first pic he looks like Kenshi (before going blind I guess), but on the second one he looks like Bo Rai Cho.
Then again, in the games..Kenshi left to meditate/train for years and during that time he ended blind..so that could explain his "rough" look..