In May, Saban Brands and Lionsgate officially announced their plans for a new
Power Rangers feature film. The franchise began 20 years ago as a television series,
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. It was about the "
adventures of a group of ordinary teens who “morph” into superheroes and save the world from evil."
Today,
The Hollywood Reporter reported,
X-Men: First Class' screenwriters
Ashley Miller and
Zack Stentz have been hired to pen the script for the live-action
Power Rangers reboot. Keep in mind, many screenwriters contributed to
X-Men: First Class, like Jamie Moss, Josh Schwartz, Zak Penn, Sheldon Turner, Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman. And it was cobbled together from other
X-Men film projects like the solo
Magneto film. As for
Ashley Miller and
Zack Stentz, they have collaborated in the past on several projects, like
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and
Fringe.
This new Power Rangers film will also get a helping hand from Star Trek 3 director
Roberto Orci, who was part of a writing team responsible for such film as:
Star Trek,
Star Trek Into Darkness, three
Transformers films and
The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Orci will be an
executive producer and
help develop the story alongside Miller and Ashley.
The new movie promises to completely re-envision the Rangers, a group of high school kids who are infused with unique and cool super powers but must harness and use those powers as a team if they have any hope of saving the world.
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