I think that's the glory of what they're doing. They are hiring people that are hardly known, just like Saban did back in the day, and like they do now.

More competition for the 2017 Power Rangers movie, the new "Friday the 13th" is now premiering Jan. 13th, 2017 http://www.thewrap.com/paramount-bum...movie-to-2017/

Huh, seems like at least Paramount is confident with a January release date. :lol Perhaps it's not such a bad month after all.

There's nothing wrong with that, but that also doesn't fill me with excitement, since I don't know anyone or their abilities. And unlike a TV series, where the actors have time to grow into their roles, they only have one shot with a movie. So if they don't fit the character immediately, things will fall flat quickly (See: the new Star Trek vs the new Fantastic Four).

Don't get me wrong, if they're great actors who happen to just not get many gigs, then awesome. I'm all for it. I'm just hesitant since I don't know their acting chops, so I can't prematurely judge them :lol

It's up to the director to build those relationships. The Star Trek movies did very well considering the 5 or so hours of total running time they've had between the two movies. Can't comment on the Fantastic Four since I've not seen it, but I haven't heard good things about it.

The director has to focus on the limitations of the cinema running time and work around that. It could work well (like in the original Star Wars film) if he knows what he's doing.

Its interesting that Lionsgate is revealing these actors as the red ranger, pink ranger, etc. instead of as Jason or Kimberly. It could validate the rumors that this movie is not a MMPR reboot, but a new story & new characters.

I wonder who's gonna play Zordon. Will they even have Zordon?

According to the rumours for Zack's casting, this may not necessarily be the case.

Well, not having Zordon is like a BTTF without Doc Brown, but who knows. I won't rule out the possibility at the moment cause you never know how far or close they will be to the source material.
As long as they don't bring the sentient booger from Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills.