It's important to note as I see a lot of fans are confused:

This is NOT a Power Rangers fan film. This is an entirely original creation featuring a cop from the future who travels in to the past and teams up with a current-day individual. It will star former Power Rangers actors, but the movie itself is NOT Power Rangers, it is NOT set in the Power Rangers Universe.

Then maybe Michael Copon shouldn't have called it the "Independant Power Ranger Movie" :lol

Depending on how you read it, the line isn't technically false.

Or name his characters Lucas and Wes. Now it just sounds like a painful attempt at making an AU Time Force film without stepping on any toes.

Or used the TF morphers and blaster props. And mentioning Jen.

Thank you. I was waiting for someone to say this.

And yet you didn't?

The entire thing is a little misleading. The name of the project, as well as the promotional images, showcase Power Rangers pretty hard. But when you read through it it's basically - "THIS IS THE MOVIE YOU POWER RANGERS FANS HAVE WANTED! IT'S JUST NOT GOING TO BE POWER RANGERS! OR EVEN SET IN THE POWER RANGERS UNIVERSE!"

It makes it kind of tough to report on. How do I report it? Ex Power Rangers Actors Come Together to Create Power Rangers Film That Isn't Power Rangers?

I do wish the project the best however and look forward to seeing what they come up with.

Michael Copon says there will more more Rangers in this film that will be announced soon. https://instagram.com/p/0Lm6bogdmc/

First thought.....YAY NO EXPLODING VAJAYJAYS!

Second thought. Uh, morphafreakingyes.

Here's the thing for those asking why. Because when not just one but multiple actors get completely involved in making something that they feel is not just a film to get rich from, not from a want to get an award, or not from a position of corporate shill. And because its for fans and they love the concepts of their original roles they played over 10, 15 plus years ago that much to want to make something like this, it's like they're saying thank you to us fans.

I can see partially what might happen is that this gets lost in the mix, kind of like we saw with Transformers. Paramount completely went full retard with the franchise. And yeah, it's one project of a million, but there is a difference in that this is pretty much bought in by a lot of prior actors from previous series. And if it actually comes out better than some of the crap I pay 13 bucks for in a theater, I'm all for it.

Edit: Yeah, after careful thought about this, it does seem more like an indy sci-fi project with just a bunch of people that Copon happens to know that happen to have played parts in series marketed under Saban Brands (a subsidiary of mayonnaise). We hope that it doesn't come across like Sharknado, but it could, which would be just fine, but at least won't be all NSFW. So much for excitement.