[RedRangerDonMoney]

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Originally Posted by Kickback

Don - thank you for coming on board here and speaking on behalf of the production crew. I can understand that there could be hesitation due to a perceived negative reaction from a lot of fans in general, but also here on our website with our members. However, I hope you understand too that the reason there is a negative reaction is *BECAUSE* of how Dom handled himself on other forums and to other individuals. That's the only perception that a lot of people have right now - and that information spreads out quickly on all the community sites (Tokunation, RangerCrew, RangerBoard, HJU, Funaro, etc.)

Sure, there are people that think the idea itself of this project is unsound and will not work - and they've expressed their opinions as such - but I reiterate that a lot of the negative reaction is because of how your boss handled himself to the very fans that he reached out to for emotional and, more importantly, financial support.

That being said - you've mentioned you fly out to NYC for shooting. I assume it's for your character's origin video/trailer/whatever? For the thousands of viewers that visit and do not post or have yet to register, can you tell them (as well as the rest of us) a little about your character and what they can expect?

Thank you!

Thanks for the welcome - and I totally get what is going on and what has happened in the past - there have been many times in my life where I've gotten riled up, or taken things to heart, and have lashed back out - I think it's the nature sometimes of a creative. Taking negative feedback and criticism is hard sometimes, even when it's given in the proper fashion, and then there are times that it's given in a not-so-cool fashion, and when that happens, sometimes you just can't react is the best fashion. I know the project has moved on from all that, you're not gonna see that anymore, and I'm here to sort of reboot this whole thing (no pun intended). I am just speaking in the now, will hopefully shed some light on things that are currently happening, and we can all move along better on this journey (for those who want to anyway).

So obviously this thing has been in the works for awhile, and as the team was originally hashing this whole idea out, maybe it was too soon to go onto message boards with it, because so much of it was still up in the air, ideas where being thought of and tried out, concepts perused, style & tone was being played around with, they were really working hard to nail down exactly what they wanted to do and how to go about it.

Well, they've done that now, and my stuff begins shooting in a week. The goal now is to have a 30 minute piece, released on the web, either as a whole, or broken up into individual character pieces in the edit room. It will introduce the new world, Lord Zedd's return, the new Rangers (or more rather the characters who become the Rangers), other new evils and all the while introducing the tone & style (new suits, morphing sequences, fight scenes, etc) of what we hope will be something that we could continue making in the future (web series, or feature film) once we get this first piece done.

I don't want to talk too much about the story, but it is set 20 years after the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. The Rangers have defeated evil, retired, and have become somewhat of celebrity heroes of a safe world. That is until Lord Zedd returns, and a new team of Rangers must band together to fight evil, as well as deal with a mysterious militant and his group of soldiers, The Silver Guardians.

As well as that, there are things that are being pulled from other seasons and sprinkled in along the way that fit in terms of this world and the story we are telling. It will feel more like a superhero-type origin story, where it will be more character driven and about the people who become the Rangers and setting everything up, but then obviously with awesome fight scenes and special effects. Dina's part just wrapped shooting last week (Blue Ranger) - she is a total rock star by the way, and her going toe to toe with some of the stunt team from TMNT, & a former WWE wrestler will definitely be a sight to see! PG-13 with all content and any violence or anything else will be handled in that manner.

As for me, I play Detective Christian Tate (and without given anything away, my last name is NOT a coincidence) of the Angel Grove PD - at one of the few remaining police precincts that is still open as the Silver Guardians are shutting them down one by one (for what reason? We shall see...) - I don't like what they are up to and want nothing more to have a safe city for my family (I'm married) and others to live in.

The character that becomes the Black Ranger is an underground MMA-style fighter (Ricky, the actor playing him, is a bad*** marital artist himself - definitely not someone I would ever mess with) - and the Pink & Yellow Rangers are twins and hipster-type urban protesters.

The character of Tommy also factors into all this, but at the moment due to many things, that will be something that will have to come later.

This piece is what we hope will just be the beginning of something new and fresh for the PR world and given it's target audience being a little older and more mature, the thematic elements and such will be a little - I hate to say darker & grittier because those two words get used a lot these days - more mature let's say. And a lot of that will come from the Rangers themselves being adults now, and having to deal with mature problems & stress in their professional and family lives, but while balancing being an evil-fighting PR.

And as has been talked about on other sites, and our Facebook & twitter pages, we don't have the rights for any of this, everything we are using we are creating ourselves and we have nothing officially to due with Saban. We are not making a dime off any of this and are literally putting all the money from the crowd-funding (and even more out of the producer's own pockets) into making this the most awesome thing we can. And if there is life for us to do it more afterward, great, and if not, at least we took a risk and busted our tails to make it happen. There's no way to tell how this could go down in the future, that is literally out of our hands, we can't be concerned with that because we have not control over it - all we can control is the now, and what we are doing, and until we are unable to do so, we are gonna keep truckin'.

Regardless of anything that has went down in the past, I've known Dom personally for years - he is a fantastic director and DP who is really giving everything he's got for this - his producing partner Louis is awesome too and they've put together a really awesome team to pull all this off. Everyone on this project is a working professional with major TV series & film credits. And some former PR people are already on board (Ron Wasserman, Robert Axlerod & David Fielding), as well as some PR historian-type people who are involved with the writers for story development - and the hope is to have some more as we continue on (hopefully). It is a SAG/AFTRA shoot, and is classified as a fan film (and yes, Dom & Louis are fans of PR, that is something that has come into question at times, so let me just say that as well) in terms of it being a film that is being made, dealing with someone else's copy-written material, but for no monetary gain and to be released only to the web.

The hope is to have something to put out by year's end - probably sometime in December. It will be released on YouTube. There may even be a Teaser from the Blue Ranger piece to show at the upcoming New York Comic Con.

I will be posting stuff during my time in NYC next week (as well as at New York Comic Con on Saturday October 12th - we will all be there) on my professional facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/TheRealDonMoney - as well as on my Twitter page @DonMoney79 - MMPR's facebook page & twitter are also good resources for updates, pics, etc

I hope this sort of lays the foundation out a bit for you guys. I'm working hard on my script and stuff this week, but if you guys have any other questions, please feel free to ask - and also as a small disclaimer - I am just an actor on this thing, though I do know Dom really well and talk to him a lot, I may not know everything that is going on, or I may answer some things incorrectly (albeit unintentionally), but I will do the best I can for you guys.

Whew...that's a lot, sorry if it is too long of a post or whatever - I am still getting used to the forum thing.