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SABAN'S POWER RANGERS Enlists Its Fifth Ranger In Becky G.!

Not too far off from last week’s forth addition of R.J. Cyler, actress and singer Becky G. will be making her big screen debut in Saban’s Power Rangers in the next few years. G. (a.k.a. Rebecca Marie Gomez) is segwaying from her career in television to movies which now suits her up as the Yellow Ranger for the film’s January 13, 2017 release from director Dean Israelite. #BeckyG (@iambeckyg) is going to be bringing the action as the #YellowRanger in the @PowerRangersMovie! Let the countdown to 2017 begin. A photo posted by Power Rangers (@powerrangersmovie) on Oct 30, 2015 at 10:15am PDT The official title of the new film from Lionsgate and Saban Films was confirmed earlier this week in an exclusive report from Collider. The report also revealed the renaming of the all newcome cast of characters for the film based on the popular Ameritoku crossover series, Mighty Morphin […]

POWER RANGERS Gets Its Blue Ranger With R.J. Cyler

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In keeping with the pace of things, War Machine co-star, actor R.J. Cyler has officially been added to the principal hero cast of Power Rangers from Lionsgate and Saban Films. Cyler‘s casting was announced further below on Instagram and other plaforms via social media: Welcome #RJCyler to the team as the #BlueRanger in the upcoming @PowerRangersMovie! A photo posted by Power Rangers (@powerrangersmovie) on Oct 23, 2015 at 9:01am PDT Cyler joins lead actor Dacre Montgomery as the Red Ranger along with Naomi Scott as the Pink Ranger and Ludi Lin as the Black Ranger from a script by Zack Stentz and Ashley Miller, based on the TV show’s earlier roots as a Super Sentai series in Japan; The Ameritoku crossover adaptation which aired in 1993, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, centered on five teens enchanted with mystical morphers to transform them into super-suited heroes to defend Earth from intergalactic Evil. […]

'Monster Hunt' Co-Star Ludi Lin Enlists With The POWER RANGERS For Lionsgate, Saban

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Director Raman Hui‘s latest, Monster Hunt, drew in spectacular box office figures in China this year. This fact undoubtedly serves well for actor Ludi Lin, a relative newcomer as it was his feature film debut following smaller roles in shortfilms, as well as most recently in the first season of the Netflix series epic, Marco Polo. Credits like these seem to bode well for the actor who evidently tested for a role in the upcoming Power Rangers reboot movie from Lionsgate and Saban Films. And, as it turns out, so it is with the latest social media announcement of his casting as the Black Ranger in the new film directed by Dean Israelite. The team is coming together! #LudiLin is morphing into the #BlackRanger in 2017 for the @PowerRangersMovie. A photo posted by Power Rangers (@powerrangersmovie) on Oct 22, 2015 at 10:15am PDT Lin follows actress Naomi Scott and actor Dacre […]

Dean Israelite's POWER RANGERS Remake Enlists Naomi Scott

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The upcoming Power Rangers film is still developing, and it was only within the past week that the casting process was made public with a short list of names for several leads. As of today, we now have our first official casting with Disney Channel familiar, actress Naomi Scott. The official instagram for the big screen Tokusatsu reboot from Lionsgate and Saban announcing Scott’s casting was just unveiled below: It’s official! #NaomiScott will play the #PinkRanger in the @PowerRangersMovie! Coming in 2017… A photo posted by Power Rangers (@powerrangersmovie) on Oct 7, 2015 at 1:04pm PDT Scott follows a long line of actresses who’ve starred in the role on the small and big screen dating back to 1993 when Mighty Morphin Power Rangers first aired on Fox Kids, crossing over from its roots as a Super Sentai series in Japan; the series, currently celebrating 800 episodes, initially focused on the […]

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Dean Israelite's MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS Gets A New Logo

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There’s been some teaser art floating around ahead of the forthcoming production of Lionsgate/Saban’s feature adaptation, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Now, in the wake of all things happening in Las Vegas, Nevada at Licensing Expo 2015, Comicbook.com just forwarded the newest logo via Rangerboard which you can check out below. The film was initially announced late last year with Haim Saban attached to produce the new film along with Brian Casentini, Allison Shearmur and Roberto Orci, based on the early-90’s American Tokusatsu re-working of the longstanding Super Sentai program, Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, which centered on a handful of teens gifted with superpowered morphers to fight intergalactic evil. Dean Isrealite has since been attached to direct the film as of April, and this week with IGN while discussing the script by Zack Stentz and Ashley Miller, mused and promised a “grounded” but “playful” and “realistic” approach to the movie. There’s no cast […]

Dean Israelite In Talks To Direct POWER RANGERS Film For Lionsgate/Saban

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No darkness and grittiness here. Lionsgate is going its own route with a likely PG-13 big screen franchise as intended for the upcoming theatrical reboot of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. The film was initially announced late last year with Haim Saban attached to produce the new film along with Brian Casentini, Allison Shearmur and Roberto Orci, based on the early-90’s American Tokusatsu re-working of the longstanding Super Sentai program, Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, which centered on a handful of teens gifted with superpowered morphers to fight intergalactic evil. As of this week, The Wrap reports that the production appears to finally be cicling a director in the form of Project Almanac helmer Dean Israelite, so time will tell if that gets made official. If and when that is so, he will be directing from a script by Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz. In the meantime, there’s no cast publicly in place just […]