Yep, the Power Rangers are coming (back) to the big screen, this time with a bigger budget and presumably fewer people in robot and monster costumes, or CGI that looks like it was made on a Commodore 64. The movie version has just started shooting, and to give us a look at the new lineup of heroes, the first official pic has been released.
They’re not in costume, but the pic via EW shows us, R.J. Cyler as Billy (the Blue Ranger), Naomi Scott as Kimberly (the Pink Ranger), Ludi Lin as Zack (the Black Ranger), Becky G as Trini (the Yellow Ranger), and Dacre Montgomery as Jason (the Red Ranger).
It appears having a multi-ethnic team was important to them, with Dean Israelite telling EW, “From the very beginning, diversity was a very important part of the whole process. We switched all of the races around, but we made sure that the essence of each of those characters are who they were in the original show, and this really will be an origin story of those characters.”
He’s also excited about having Elizabeth Banks involved, saying, “It’s very exciting that we got [Banks], and I think what she loves is the opportunity to really embrace the insanity and deliciousness of Rita Repulsa in terms of how weird and wonderful that character was, and really dive into and consume that character. You should always be off-balance when you’re watching her. Is she insane? Is she totally calculated? Does she know what she’s doing? Elizabeth can toe that line really well.”
The film is due out March 2017.
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