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It’s most certainly morphin’ time!
The Saturday morning TV staple Power Rangers (née Mighty Morphin) is coming to theaters in 2017 with a big-screen revival that will introduce a new version of the classic line-up of five alien-blasting teens.
EW has your first look at pop star Becky G, RJ Cyler (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl), Naomi Scott, Ludi Lin, and Dacre Montgomery as Trini, Billy, Kimberly, Zack, and Jason, respectively.
While the roster might sound familiar, director Dean Israelite (Project Almanac) told EW that he wanted this superhero story to reflect the lives of teens today. The new Power Rangers is a coming of age story for these “disenfranchised and disparate” high schoolers, who are not friends when the new story begins.
The modern setting was also taken into account during the casting process. Though many of the characters have had their races swapped, the cast retains the original’s diversity—while getting rid of the more race-based color assignments. This, according to Israelite, was a conscious choice to maintain what the original meant for fans around the world.
“From the very beginning, diversity was a very important part of the whole process,” he said. “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.”
The Rangers’ suits will also be getting a update as well, thanks to Weta Workshop of Lord of the Rings fame, who fabricated the costumes. Israelite wanted the costume to be immediately recognizable as belonging to the Power Rangers, while give them a “really modern, edgy, badass, aspirational quality.”
“We’ve really pushed ourselves to make them feel different from any other superhero costume that’s out there,” Israelite said. “One key that’s different to the Power Ranger suits is that they’re not really suits that people get into. They’re suits that morph onto our kids, so they already have this almost metaphysical quality to them.”
And the Rangers will need those suits if they’re going to stand a chance against Elizabeth Banks’ Rita Repulsa, who from the sounds of it, lives up to her insane legacy.
“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,” Israelite said. “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.”
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Ima need tommy to make a cameo or something....
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Should've showed them in their suits.
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I need a trailer first
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two edomites........its lit
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melanin excellence!
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lmaoo they got the blue ranger lookin sus out the gate lmaooo.
the OG team would spank these kids matter a fact Jason or Tommy dolo would give it to these kids. -
dalyricalbandit wrote: »lmaoo they got the blue ranger lookin sus out the gate lmaooo.
the OG team would spank these kids matter a fact Jason or Tommy dolo would give it to these kids.
I dunno. Asian kid might be able handle his.
But yeah green ranger did come on the scene bussin ? ? tho. Washed the whole set. Recess was hott that day.
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look like a bunch of abercrombie & fitch models. black guy looks more like a kid than everyone else
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Ima need tommy to make a cameo or something....
doubt he'll be "Tommy" if he does, since it would connect the reboot with all the seasons and movies from the tv show. hope he makes a cameo though, he was the GOAT ranger -
I remember losing my ? mind when I saw this...
? hit em with a evil kamehameha or some ? b. -
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KingFreeman wrote: »dalyricalbandit wrote: »lmaoo they got the blue ranger lookin sus out the gate lmaooo.
the OG team would spank these kids matter a fact Jason or Tommy dolo would give it to these kids.
I dunno. Asian kid might be able handle his.
But yeah green ranger did come on the scene bussin ? ? tho. Washed the whole set. Recess was hott that day.
mannnnnnn i was in Jr High when Green Ranger hit the scene..
? came to school like "? i know u saw that ? !? what... theeeeee.. ? !!??!?" hahahaha -
"Go Green Ranger Go!" >>>>>>>>>> "White Ranger Tiger Power!"
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Asian kid should be team leader.
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Goldar better not be a punk.
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Sons birthday today, he's a PR fan, more so for Dino Charge, but I copped him the White Tiger Sword, this ? is heavy and bad ass. The tiger talks in the original voice.
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they still sell that? sheeeyyyyt can ya lil ? appreciate that
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i hated the white ranger dude wasnt as trill as the green
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Sons birthday today, he's a PR fan, more so for Dino Charge, but I copped him the White Tiger Sword, this ? is heavy and bad ass. The tiger talks in the original voice.
Don't front, you know you bought that for yourself. -
KingFreeman wrote: »dalyricalbandit wrote: »lmaoo they got the blue ranger lookin sus out the gate lmaooo.
the OG team would spank these kids matter a fact Jason or Tommy dolo would give it to these kids.
I dunno. Asian kid might be able handle his.
But yeah green ranger did come on the scene bussin ? ? tho. Washed the whole set. Recess was hott that day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_tpSiPpr64
I remember there was one episode before this one where the green ranger went one on one with the megazord the first time, he jumped inside of it and THREW them ? out like they was trash LOLOOLOLOLOL. They came back after Zordon gave them a cheat code and still got washed here
Green ranger aint nothing to ? with, from that day forward he was my favourite. ? beat the power rangers, took over the squad, ousted Jason as the leader and took his girl. Got dayum.
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KingFreeman wrote: »dalyricalbandit wrote: »lmaoo they got the blue ranger lookin sus out the gate lmaooo.
the OG team would spank these kids matter a fact Jason or Tommy dolo would give it to these kids.
I dunno. Asian kid might be able handle his.
But yeah green ranger did come on the scene bussin ? ? tho. Washed the whole set. Recess was hott that day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_tpSiPpr64
I remember there was one episode before this one where the green ranger went one on one with the megazord the first time, he jumped inside of it and THREW them ? out like they was trash LOLOOLOLOLOL. They came back after Zordon gave them a cheat code and still got washed here
Green ranger aint nothing to ? with, from that day forward he was my favourite. ? beat the power rangers, took over the squad, ousted Jason as the leader and took his girl. Got dayum.
Bruh, That ? Green Ranger gave zero ?
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dalyricalbandit wrote: »i hated the white ranger dude wasnt as trill as the green
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FishNChips wrote: »dalyricalbandit wrote: »i hated the white ranger dude wasnt as trill as the green
weren't they the same person?
Yeah but by then tommy was the good guy so all the trill ? went out the window -
FishNChips wrote: »dalyricalbandit wrote: »i hated the white ranger dude wasnt as trill as the green
weren't they the same person?vageneral08 wrote: »FishNChips wrote: »dalyricalbandit wrote: »i hated the white ranger dude wasnt as trill as the green
weren't they the same person?
Yeah but by then tommy was the good guy so all the trill ? went out the window
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latina lookin broad on the right can get the d.
more pics pls...