Might Morphin Power Rangers Assemble In New Pic Showing Five New Members

March 3, 2016

Call on the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and they will form up together. They did so in a recent Lionsgate pic showing the five main cast members all assembled together for the upcoming “Power Rangers” reboot film which recently began production. If you are a fan of any of the franchise’s series then you no doubt interested in this film version.

From left to right there’s R.J. Cyler as the Blue Ranger, Naomi Scott as the Pink Ranger, Ludi Lin as the Black Ranger, Dacre Montgomery as the Red Ranger and Becky Gomez as the Yellow Ranger.

Described as a coming-of-age story for these misfit high schoolers, and an origin story of the characters. The new film sees the five squaring off against Rita Repulsa (Elizabeth Banks). It is slated to open January 13th 2017.

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.

“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.”

Directed by Dean (Project Almanac), Power Rangers is written by John Gatins (Kong: Skull Island, Real Steel), Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama (Dracula Untold), Zack Stentz and Ashley Miller (X-Men: First Class, Thor), and Max Landis (Chronicle). Producers are Power Rangers creator Haim Saban, Brian Casentini, Wyck Godfrey, and Marty Bowen (The Twilight Saga, The Fault in Our Stars, The Maze Runner franchise).

The new Power Rangers hits the big screen March 24, 2017.

What did you think of the pic? What do you think of the new Power Rangers cast now that we’ve seen them full assembled? Sound off below in the comments section.

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