The "Power Rangers" movie had its New York Comic-Con presentation last Oct. 8. The first footage from the movie had been shown there, including an official trailer.
Lionsgate formerly released a series of posters for the movie featuring the individual Rangers and their suits. The Power Rangers team includes the Yellow Ranger/Trini (Becky Gomez), the Pink Ranger/Kimberly (Naomi Scott), the Red Ranger/Jason (Dacre Montgomery), the Black Ranger/Zack (Ludi Lin) and the Blue Ranger/Billy (RJ Cyler).
It appears that director Dean Israelite made the movie very similar to his previous work, Project Almanac. He obviously was planning to give us another grim and gloomy superhero epic story following troubled teens that both enrich and endanger their lives after gaining superpowers.
It even appears that Israelite has turned the famous Ranger suits into creeping Venom-style symbiotes, maybe because of a similar approach used in incredibly popular Spider-Man 3 movie.
Those Power Rangers (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) TV series back in 90's were fabulously corny but oddly marvelous. Thanks to its low budget and creator's (Haim Saban) idea to buy up footage from the totally crazy Japanese show Super Sentai.
Saban used those footages in a big number of the fight scenes in Power Rangers show to this day and filmed new story sequences with American actors.
The result was a pseudo-psychedelic mixture of trashy narratives with marvelously silly martial arts sections. Sometimes viewers could have the impression that on-going and confusing scenes and dull dialogs made the episodes look like something has been lost in translation.
In other words, neither the viewers nor the creators of the show really had much of a clue what was going on, just like someone has had put some kind of psychotic drugs in their morning coffee.
The idea of a "Power Rangers" movie with a budget of $150m, starring big Hollywood stars like Bryan Cranston and Elizabeth Banks (Breaking Bad), wasn't so good after all.
This first teaser trailer for Dean Israelite's 2017 movie leaves us wondering whether the director and his team will have a success with Power Rangers as a hyperreal, bombastic and totally over-the-top riff on established superhero themes.
Considering the success of Deadpool, maybe the time is perfect for a scathing and barbed, irreverent comic-book movie based on its Japanese roots.
Lionsgate seems fairly confident in their approach, and fans will be curious to see how it plays with the crowd at the theaters starting on March 24, 2017.
