Following the reveal of its logo yesterday at the Las Vegas Licensing Expo, we now have a new rumour about who the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers will be facing off with in the upcoming reboot.
According to Heroic Hollywood, the villain of the movie will be fan-favourite Rita Repulsa, who is described as, “a huntress. A striking, yet subtly alien-looking woman. She carries a metallic staff topped with a distinctive crescent shape. Advances with a soldier’s confidence, guided by some sort of compass… Her staff is actually a device of immense power. She points it at the ground. Heads emerge, built layer upon layer like 3-D printing, made from the earth itself… The staff’s technology grants her the ability to create humanoid figures, soulless and robotic.”
With the movie being based on the original Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers TV show, this would make a lot of sense.
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The site also has a “scoop” that first scene of the movie will take place in the Cretaceous period, just before the dinosaurs are wiped out and will see Rita fighting that period’s Power Rangers led by Zordon as the Red Ranger. “Though alien, he looks like a man in his 50s,” the website says of Zordon. “Sinewy and strong, as if carved from some root that refused to die. A being of integrity and iron will.”
Power Rangers will be released in 2017.
Originally published June 10, 2015. Updated November 29, 2022.
