Power/Rangers

Power/Rangers is an American science-fiction action fan short film directed and co-written by Joseph Kahn, produced by Adi Shankar and Jil Hardin, and co-written by James Van Der Beek and Dutch Southern. It was released on YouTube and Vimeo on February 23, 2015. It is based on the franchise of the same name.

PLOT

The Machine Empire defeats the Power Rangers in battle, destroying the Megazord. It is revealed that Earth's governments then negotiate a truce with the Machine Empire and the Power Rangers are disbanded.

Years later, Rocky, the second Red Ranger has defected to the Machine Empire, critical of Zordon's use of Power Rangers as child soldiers, and now sports a prosthetic leg. He interrogates a restrained Kimberly, the former Pink Ranger, about the location of Tommy Oliver, the former Green Ranger. He details the fates of the other Rangers in flashback.

Jason, Rocky's predecessor as Red Ranger, was gunned down eight hours after marrying Kimberly, when Bulk and Skull seemingly revealed their location to a police force; Zack, the former Black Ranger, was an insatiable action junkie who became a Machine Empire enforcer (seen taking down the North Korean Kim and his goons personally) before being caught; Billy Cranston, the former Blue Ranger, became an openly-gay trillionaire who ended up buying Lockheed Martin and was found dead of an apparent suicide.

Kimberly rejects Rocky's claim that Tommy is hunting down the Rangers. She tells Rocky that she hasn't seen him since the funeral of Trini, the former Yellow Ranger who died at the treaty negotiations. Rocky acknowledges that he already knew that; she is really being held as bait. Tommy arrives and kills the guards, entering into single combat against Rocky in a sword duel. When Rocky gains the upper hand, Kimberly shoots and kills him. Tommy demands to know who she is, as the real Kimberly died in his arms during the final battle years earlier. The fake Kimberly's façade crumbles to reveal Rita Repulsa, who killed all the others: she injected Jason with poison during the shootout and assassinated Billy and Zack with shots to the back of the head. Rita attempts to lure Tommy into her plan of world domination (noting that she created him) but he denies her, attacking her as the film ends.

Several of the plot points make references to real-life incidents in the original Power Rangers actors' lives: David Yost, who played Billy, came out as gay after the series ended, while Thuy Trang, who played Trini, died in an automobile accident in 2001.

Cast

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James Van Der Beek as Rocky, the former Red Ranger

Katee Sackhoff as Kimberly, the former Pink Ranger

Russ Bain as Tommy, the former Green Ranger and White Ranger

Gichi Gamba as Zack, the former Black Ranger

Yves Bright as Billy, the former Blue Ranger

Stevin Knight as Jason, the former Red Ranger

Camilla Lim as Trini, former Yellow Ranger

Will Yun Lee as General Klank

Tony Gomez as Bulk

Matt D'Elia as Skull

Bree Olson as Divatox

Amia Miley as Scorpina

Carla Perez as Rita

Steffane Melanga as Cestria

Adi Shankar as Billy's husband

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