Filmmaker Joseph Khan has today unleashed onto the Internet POWER/RANGERS, a lacerating fifteen minute parody of a fan film that take aim at Hollywood’s current fascination with the “dark and gritty” reboot of franchises that were little more than merchandise generating exercises in the first place.
“[It’s] all of Hollywood, they all keep toying around with this ‘dark and gritty’ concept, and they’re all PG-13. I mean… look at the gunshots. You have a guy going in there shooting a bunch of people and it’s just like puffs of smoke. There’s no repercussions to these gunshots, which to me is even more dangerous than when you actually show some blood. You’re teaching kids that you can shoot a gun and there’s no repercussions to it. It just looks like you fall down. So when I did the dark and gritty version of this, I mean, we go full out. There’s blood, there’s brains, there’s gunshots, there’s sex, there’s violence. I mean, basically we made the version that Hollywood could never ever make. If I had to watch the ‘dark and gritty’ reboot, then this is the way I would want it. This is the version I would personally want to see, but I also know this is the version that could never, ever be made in Hollywood. They would be crazy, it would be financially irresponsible, but this is what I personally would like to see out of a Power Rangers film.
