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NEWS: New Power Rangers Film Casts Ludi Lin as Black Ranger


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theNightster



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 1:44 pm Reply with quote
so Zack is Asian in this movie? you guys sure it's not supposed to be Adam?
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tintor2



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 1:50 pm Reply with quote
I hope Jason David Frank has a more serious role.
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Kurai_Seraphim



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 1:51 pm Reply with quote
It's possible they're trying to avoid the "African American as black ranger, Asian American as yellow ranger" thing this go round, though honestly with all of the new characterizations in that casting call I'm not sure this has enough ties to the originals that they should have kept the names at all.
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KH91



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 2:31 pm Reply with quote
theNightster wrote:
so Zack is Asian in this movie? you guys sure it's not supposed to be Adam?


They fused Zack and Adam.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 2:55 pm Reply with quote
KH91 wrote:
theNightster wrote:
so Zack is Asian in this movie? you guys sure it's not supposed to be Adam?


They fused Zack and Adam.


Cool he can be Zadam the Blasian.
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theNightster



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 3:31 pm Reply with quote
Yen50414 wrote:
KH91 wrote:
theNightster wrote:
so Zack is Asian in this movie? you guys sure it's not supposed to be Adam?


They fused Zack and Adam.


Cool he can be Zadam the Blasian.

plot twist, Trini is played by a black girl
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TheOtakuX



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 3:36 pm Reply with quote
They can't seem to make up their mind on if this is a remake/reboot or a spinoff (there've been rumors the movie will be set up in some way in Dino Supercharge next year). My best guess is the names are placeholders for now. If it's truly set in the same continuity as the show, it'd pretty much have to have new character names. Otherwise it'd be kinda weird.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 5:09 pm Reply with quote
Last I read it's an alternate reality, like the new Star Trek. Something happening at the end of Dino Supercharge is supposed to cause a dimensional break of some sort. (That's how it was described, sounds dumb.) But really, who know how they're going to do it.
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AiddonValentine



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 5:52 pm Reply with quote
Fully expected a race lift and that's okay. I'm fully expecting Trini to be black.
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Animeking1108



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 6:50 pm Reply with quote
I think this is a rare occurrence of racebending being more politically correct considering the jokes we made about the Black and Yellow Rangers before.
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Ali07



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 9:26 pm Reply with quote
Compared to the other casting announcements...this one seems strange to me. And, this only has to do with the age of the character. I'm meant to believe this guy is 17? Laughing
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Animeking1108



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 10:02 pm Reply with quote
Then again, "Power Rangers" wasn't really known for having teenagers be played by teenagers.
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Wandering Samurai



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 4:28 am Reply with quote
I can see the outrage when it turns out there will be no ethnically black person in the cast. I'm a bit surprised about this actually but I guess everything has to be PC these days.
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Enturax



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 7:50 am Reply with quote
Can someone explain me how the hell these kitschy series last THIS long? Shocked
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Beatdigga



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 7:58 am Reply with quote
Enturax wrote:
Can someone explain me how the hell these kitschy series last THIS long? Shocked


Kitsch that can constantly reinvent itself. There's a very long shelf life to something both enjoyably ridiculous and continually evolving.
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