Power Rangers (2017)
- The original script for Power Rangers was written over a decade before production finally began in 2017.
- The incredible score for Power Rangers was composed in just a few weeks after the original composer dropped out.
- Dean Israelite originally wanted a completely different ending for the film, but test audiences preferred the one we see today.
Power Rangers is a 2017 American superhero film directed by Dean Israelite, a gritty reboot of the 1990s franchise. Five high school misfits in the fictional town of Angel Grove — Jason, Kimberly, Billy, Trini, and Zack, played by Dacre Montgomery, Naomi Scott, RJ Cyler, Becky G, and Ludi Lin — discover alien coins that grant them superhuman abilities and an ancient spacecraft where they learn they are the latest Power Rangers, chosen to protect Earth from Rita Repulsa, played by Elizabeth Banks, an ancient Green Ranger turned destroyer. The reboot took the Rangers seriously as characters, exploring their personal struggles — autism, sexuality, family dysfunction, grief — with more depth than the franchise had ever attempted.
Elizabeth Banks's scenery-chewing Rita was entertainingly menacing. The film earned $142 million worldwide on a $100 million budget, insufficient for planned sequels.
