{"id":84302,"date":"2016-02-03T11:36:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T11:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=84302"},"modified":"2016-02-03T11:36:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T11:36:40","slug":"power-rangers-movie-casts-elizabeth-banks-as-the-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/power-rangers-movie-casts-elizabeth-banks-as-the-villain\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Rangers movie casts Elizabeth Banks as the villain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lionsgate&#8217;s <strong><em>Power Rangers<\/em><\/strong> movie is gearing up for production, and they&#8217;ve landed a pretty impressive baddie.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/elizabeth-banks-play-power-rangers-861189\">THR<\/a> reports that the most excellent Elizabeth Banks has signed on to star as Rita Repulsa, giving the upcoming adaptation a bit of star power.<\/p>\n<p>The star of <strong><em>The Hunger Games<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Pitch Perfect<\/em><\/strong> will join Rangers actors RJ Cyler, Becky G, Ludi Lin,Naomi Scott and Dacre Montgomery as the villain, &#8220;an alien witch who has designs on the planet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This latest take on <strong><em>Power Rangers<\/em><\/strong> comes from <strong><em>Project Almanac<\/em><\/strong> director Dean Israelite, and is written by <strong><em>Gods Of Egypt<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>The Last Witch Hunter<\/em><\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama.<\/p>\n<p>Although Banks is obviously a very talented dramatic actor (she was excellent in Love &amp; Mercy), her casting is probably a good indication of the film&#8217;s tone. I mean, we&#8217;d love a gritty Joseph Kahn Power Rangers movie but a more comedic one does make sense, right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Power Rangers will be released on 24 March 2017. Keep up with the latest genre news with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/index.php\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/4097\/s\/scifinow-issue-115\/?utm_source=SciFiNow&amp;utm_medium=cover&amp;utm_campaign=Product-Widget\">the new issue of SciFiNow<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Banks joins the Power Rangers movie as Rita Repulsa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":84305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[3948],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/elizabeth-banks-1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}