The new take on the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers looks still on course for a summer 2016 release.
NewsThings have been quiet on the Power Rangers movie reboot front of late, ever since the project was first announced around eight months ago. Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz had been hired to pen a screenplay (and Roberto Orci was involved for a time too), but that aside, little else has been heard.
Comicbook.com however has been chatting to actor and martial arts expert Jason David Frank, who has worked on Saban projects in the past, and he's confirmed that the new Power Rangers movie will be going before the cameras in 2016.
"The movie is definitely set for this year," he confirmed. "Everything is in place. They won't give me specific details, because it's all like hush-hush." However, "I will tell you it is being filmed this year."
The film had been given a tentative release date of July 2016, with Lionsgate set to distribute the film and work with Saban on getting it made.
The synopsis that had been released for the film reads thus:
"From a story by Executive Producer Roberto Orci (TRANSFORMERS, STAR TREK, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2) and screenwriters Zack Stentz and Ashley Miller (X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, THOR) comes a modern reinvention of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, a group of ordinary high school kids who find themselves infused with extraterrestrial powers and must harness those powers as a team to save the world".
Which tell us very little. We wonder if Orci, incidentally, may return to the project, now he's not directing the next Star Trekmovie.
More news on Power Rangersas we hear it...
