"Go! Go! Power Rangers!" indeed because Lionsgate and Saban announced via the Power Rangers Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts that the team now has a Blue Ranger and his name is RJ Cyler. It won't be long now until the team is complete and filming for the new Power Rangers movie will begin.
RJ Cyler played Earl in director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon's adaptation of "Me, Earl and the Dying Girl," which premiered in the 2015 Sundance Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize. He acted alongside Thomas Mann and Olivia Cooke in the film.
20-year-old Cyler's casting as the Blue Ranger is in line with rumors about how director Dean Israelite and the studio want to choose lesser known actors for the roles. Considering the other actors who have been cast to play the Rangers, we're sure that Yellow Ranger, presumably the next to be announced, will be a new face as well.
No one is really certain as to which team the new Power Rangers movie will showcase since, as of August 2015, it is has ran for 22 years spanning 22 seasons and 19 different themes so it is possible that the next Power Ranger may neither be the Yellow Ranger nor the person to complete the team, just as in the original "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" when Tommy, the Green Ranger and eventually, White Ranger, suddenly showed up in the series.
The only thing for sure, other than the four Rangers and Israelite, is that the new film will have a different take from the existing Power Rangers series.
"I read the script and was really surprised by it and thought there was a really cool, contemporary, mature but still playful, buoyant and fun take on the material, and was updated in a really interesting way," Israelite said.
"Power Rangers" is expected for theatrical release in January 2017.
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