Lionsgate's POWER RANGERS Reboot Shifts Release To 2017

With a number of juggernauts on the horizon for 2016, it was easy to forget about Power Rangers reboot, & well it looks like the studio felt the same way as they've delayed the film a bit. Check it out!

By RohanPatel - Apr 30, 2015 03:04 PM EST

Filed Under: Power Rangers

Lionsgate has announced that their upcoming Mighty Morphin Power Rangers film reboot has been delayed from its original release date of July 22, 2016 to the much less-crowded date of January 13, 2017.

This is not necessarily a surprising move, especially considering that its original release date had the film competing with Matt Damon's Bourne return, the fifth Ice Age, Sony's female Ghostbusters, and WB's Suicide Squad. However, even though it may be a smart move on the studio's part, possibly securing the film a better box office return, a move to January, a month traditionally reserved for awards bait, adult-oriented films, and/or more often than not lesser quality commercial films, doesn't really exhume confidence.

The Rangers reboot will now open a week after Tom Cruise's drug smuggling drama Mena, which reunites the superstar with his Edge Of Tomorrow director Doug Liman for what may be an Academy Award-worthy project.

The long-running Power Rangers franchise, which recently launched its twenty-second season, originally kicked off back in 1993 with the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, a series that quickly became a worldwide phenomenon and starred Austin St. John, Walter Jones, David Yost, Amy Jo Johnson, and Thuy Trang as the superpowered teenagers.

What do you guys think of the move? Sound off with your thoughts below!

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45 Comments

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MercwithMouth - 4/30/2015, 2:23 PM

If they make it like that fan-film with Van der Beek, I'd definitely watch. But that's not gonna happen.

BastTheGod - 4/30/2015, 3:24 PM

for some reasion i dont care ether way, but i will b there to see it

Killuminatic - 4/30/2015, 3:24 PM

It's never gonna happen...

CombatWombat - 4/30/2015, 3:26 PM

...Not falling for your shit @JoshWilding

SpiderFlashMan - 4/30/2015, 3:27 PM

Give us a cast listing, at least.

Wyldstallyns - 4/30/2015, 3:29 PM

I'm upset with this news; I just hope it is worth the wait!

Mrcool210 - 4/30/2015, 3:29 PM

Well its going to be shit, it coming out in january is never a good sign.

the - 4/30/2015, 3:39 PM

@TheAmbassador
Hey, a Michael Bay Power Rangers movie makes more sense than people would like to admit.
Well, this is Paramount and is a kid's franchise, so Bay will get his hands on this eventually.

JamesMann - 4/30/2015, 3:42 PM

January eh?

Gonna be shit.

thewolfx - 4/30/2015, 3:50 PM

Its gettin pushed back because saban likes making powerrangers.. fckin dumb

blackandyellow - 4/30/2015, 3:54 PM

ScionStorm - 4/30/2015, 3:58 PM

Is it too soon to ask for the Psycho Rangers?

DrVenkman - 4/30/2015, 3:58 PM

January?

GhostDog - 4/30/2015, 4:07 PM

Who's gonna win, Xmen or civil war??

grif - 4/30/2015, 4:32 PM

lol pushed back again.

GhostDog - 4/30/2015, 4:40 PM

@soforizo you got me dying with that gif. Hahahahahahaahahahahahahahaha too funny man. It does explain it all, that face

GhostDog - 4/30/2015, 4:41 PM

@VisualMaximus haha damn man no love for the first mutant lol. You right, just wanted hear some opinions. Civil war will be huge prob why BVS pulled out

WruceBayne - 4/30/2015, 4:43 PM

I wonder if this movie will actually happen. It keeps getting pushed back, no casting news and the creator (Saban) got his panties rustled because some fan made a better version than he could've ever put together.

MyNameIsKhan - 4/30/2015, 5:03 PM

Get Chloe Moretz in and I'm all for it.

SuperCat - 4/30/2015, 5:30 PM

Power Rangers. Yay. :/

BlackIceJoe - 4/30/2015, 5:56 PM

I'd like to see Carl Erik Rinsch get the job of director. He does great works with robots and mechs. Even though his last film was a box office bomb. I still feel like he can pull it off. Plus he did some good stuff with martial arts and sword fighting, so I really belive he's the man for the job.

Mercwitham0uth - 4/30/2015, 6:05 PM

Nobody wants this shit.

ScionStorm - 4/30/2015, 6:06 PM

Guillermo DelToro! Go! Direct it! NOW!

campblood - 4/30/2015, 7:42 PM

Heil zordon

loki668 - 4/30/2015, 9:41 PM

Uwe. Boll.

Lord Loki has spoken

loki668 - 4/30/2015, 9:42 PM

Just realized what @campblood put above me. :O

ScionStorm - 4/30/2015, 10:03 PM

I mean Giant Robots, Giant Monsters, Strange Aliens, Wacky Characters, Heroes in Powered Suits. Shouldn't Guillermo DelToro be directing the Power Rangers reboot?

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