{"id":88411,"date":"2016-06-22T09:13:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T08:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=88411"},"modified":"2016-06-22T09:13:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T08:13:30","slug":"power-rangers-movie-has-found-its-zordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/power-rangers-movie-has-found-its-zordon\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Rangers movie has found its Zordon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having already cast the excellent Elizabeth Banks as Rita Repulsa, how do you go about that? Find somebody equally brilliant for the opposite role. And the creators of the new <strong><em>Power Rangers<\/em> <\/strong>movie have certainly done that, having managed to land none other than <strong><em>Breaking Bad<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Malcolm In the Middle<\/em><\/strong> star Bryan Cranston.<\/p>\n<p>The news was broken &#8211; as has become customary\u00a0 &#8211; on Twitter from the official Power Rangers account:<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The mighty <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Zordon?src=hash\">#Zordon<\/a> has officially been cast! Please welcome <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BryanCranston?src=hash\">#BryanCranston<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PowerRangersMovie?src=hash\">#PowerRangersMovie<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MbJDR7PnfI\">pic.twitter.com\/MbJDR7PnfI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Power Rangers (@ThePowerRangers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePowerRangers\/status\/745398702542491649\">June 21, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>And the actor was similarly enthused:<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Excited to play <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Zordon?src=hash\">#Zordon<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PowerRangersMovie?src=hash\">#PowerRangersMovie<\/a>!  T or F: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlueRanger?src=hash\">#BlueRanger<\/a> Billy Cranston was named after what actor? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d3ltjpcDKb\">https:\/\/t.co\/d3ltjpcDKb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bryan Cranston (@BryanCranston) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BryanCranston\/status\/745379521679888384\">June 21, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>For those of you who are unfamiliar, Zordon takes the form of a giant floating head (for reasons that we can&#8217;t remember) in the Rangers&#8217; command centre, from which he briefs them on their latest mission and generally provides exposition. If anyone can do this, Cranston can &#8211; and we know he&#8217;ll be excellent.<\/p>\n<p>As he alludes to in his tweet, Cranston also has an interesting history with the franchise. Back in the day, he provided voiceover work for a number of the characters (such as villains Snizard and Twinman), and the original Blue Ranger, Billy Cranston, was actually named after him.<\/p>\n<p>We guess that explains why the film was able to attract someone of his calibre, but that&#8217;s definitely no bad thing. Since Breaking Bad it feels like he&#8217;s had his pick of roles, and the fact that he&#8217;s chosen this one is good enough for us.<\/p>\n<p>Cranston joins a cast that already includes Ludi Lin (Black Ranger Zack), Naomi Scott (Pink Ranger Kimberly), RJ Cyler (Blue Ranger Billy), Becky G (Yellow Ranger Trini), and Dacre Montgomery, and of course Elizabeth Banks as Rita Repulsa. Dean Israelite (<em><strong>Project Almanac<\/strong><\/em>) is directing from a script penned by Ashley Miller, Zack Stentz, John Gatins, Matt Sazana, Burk Sharpless and Max Landis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Power Rangers will be released in cinemas on 24 March 2017. For more news about the latest movies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/magazines\/scifinow\/scifinow-issue-120.html\">pick up the new issue of SciFiNow.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess which actor will get a big head in the Power Rangers movie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":88412,"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\/06\/Power-Rangers-2017-Reboot-Costumes-HD.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88411"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}