50 Fun Facts About Power Rangers (2017)

In the 2017 Power Rangers film, the Zeo Crystal lies buried beneath a branch of which doughnut chain?

Krispy Kreme was an advertising partner that sold tie-in doughnuts, and its shop is where Goldar digs for the crystal in the final battle.

Which film beat the 2017 Power Rangers film to first place on its opening weekend, taking more than twice as much?

Beauty and the Beast took $90.4 million that weekend, against a $40.3 million debut that had still beaten projections of $30–35 million.

Which Breaking Bad actor, once a monster voice on the original series, played Zordon in the 2017 Power Rangers film?

Bryan Cranston voiced the monsters Twin Man and Snizzard in the show's first season, earning about $50 an hour for the work.

Naomi Scott, the Pink Ranger of the 2017 Power Rangers film, went on to play which Disney princess?

Jasmine was her part in Disney's 2019 live-action Aladdin, released two years after she played the former cheerleader Kimberly Hart.

Dacre Montgomery, the Red Ranger of the 2017 Power Rangers film, played Billy Hargrove in which Netflix series?

Stranger Things cast the Australian for its second season in the same year, and his audition tape for the show later went viral.

Which condition is the Blue Ranger, played by RJ Cyler, stated to have in the 2017 Power Rangers film?

Autism is stated outright in this version of the character, who is also the first of the five teenagers to morph, while breaking up a fight.

In the 2017 Power Rangers film, which animal does quarterback Jason Scott sneak into school as a prank?

A bull in the changing room gets him thrown off the team and sentenced to weekend detentions, and he hurts his knee flipping his truck as he flees.

Which Hunger Games actress played the villain Rita Repulsa in the 2017 Power Rangers film?

Elizabeth Banks, the Effie Trinket of those films, plays a Rita rewritten as a fallen Ranger who killed her own team millions of years ago.

Which toy company bought the Power Rangers brand a year after the 2017 film underperformed at the box office?

Hasbro paid Saban Brands $522 million in May 2018, after the film's weak takings had ended plans for a six-movie story arc.

Singer Becky G played which Yellow Ranger, a loner new to town, in the 2017 Power Rangers film?

Trini, in this version, is on her third school in three years and is written as questioning her sexuality, which her parents struggle to accept.

What giant robot do the five Zords combine to form in the 2017 Power Rangers film's final battle?

The Megazord first forms after Goldar shoves all five Zords into a fiery pit, and it ends the fight by slapping Rita Repulsa into space.

Rita Repulsa is revealed to be a former Ranger of which colour in the 2017 Power Rangers film?

Green was Rita's colour before she betrayed and killed her teammates, a twist on the TV series, where she is an evil sorceress with a palace on the Moon.

Which absent student's name is read out in the 2017 Power Rangers film's mid-credits scene, teasing a sequel?

Tommy Oliver is only a name and a jacket on an empty seat, and both the cast and the role's original actor backed making the character female in a sequel.

What hits the five teenagers' car as they flee mine security in the 2017 Power Rangers film?

A train smashes into the car, yet all five wake at home on Monday morning unhurt and with superhuman abilities.

What colour-coded objects, found in a mine, give the five teenagers their abilities in the 2017 Power Rangers film?

Coins, five of them, were hidden by Zordon 65 million years earlier, after his own team of Rangers had been killed.

What does Zordon order Alpha 5 to send down on Rita Repulsa in the 2017 Power Rangers film's prehistoric opening?

A meteor strike kills Zordon himself, wipes out the dinosaurs and hurls Rita to the bottom of the sea, where she lies for 65 million years.

What do the five teenagers find buried beneath the mine, with Zordon and Alpha 5 inside, in the 2017 Power Rangers film?

A spaceship, ancient and long buried, holds what is left of Zordon: a consciousness that became part of the Morphing Grid when he died.

Ludi Lin, the Black Ranger of the 2017 Power Rangers film, later played Liu Kang in which video game adaptation?

Mortal Kombat's 2021 reboot gave him the fighter's role after he had played the underwater warrior Murk in Aquaman.

Which Saturday Night Live alumnus voiced the robot Alpha 5 in the 2017 Power Rangers film?

Bill Hader joined in September 2016, four months after principal photography had wrapped.

What is the Blue Ranger caught experimenting with, earning him detention, in the 2017 Power Rangers film?

Explosives also set the story going: his blast at the mine breaks open the rock and brings the five teenagers together.

Becky G, the Yellow Ranger of the 2017 Power Rangers film, had a 2014 US top-twenty hit with which song?

Shower reached the top twenty of the Billboard Hot 100 three years before the film, and it has since passed a billion streams on Spotify.

Becky G, the Yellow Ranger actress of the 2017 Power Rangers film, takes her stage initial from which surname?

Gomez is her real surname: she was born Rebbeca Marie Gomez in Inglewood, California, and has the same surname as fellow pop singer Selena Gomez.

Naomi Scott, the Pink Ranger of the 2017 Power Rangers film, holds a black belt in which martial art?

Karate is something she has studied since her youth, and she has credited it with helping her in the role of Kimberly Hart.

Before the 2017 Power Rangers film, Naomi Scott starred in which 2011 Disney Channel musical film?

Lemonade Mouth was her first role in an American production, and a song from its soundtrack was later certified platinum in the US.

Which prehistoric animal is the Zord that Black Ranger Zack takes on a reckless joyride in the 2017 Power Rangers film?

The Mastodon nearly kills the whole group when he crashes it, which starts the fight in which one Ranger morphs for the first time.

Which language does Black Ranger Zack speak at home with his ill mother in the 2017 Power Rangers film?

Mandarin is what he speaks in their mobile home, where he is his mother's only carer, and actor Ludi Lin was himself born in Fuzhou, China.

What does the Blue Ranger disable for Jason Scott in exchange for a lift in the 2017 Power Rangers film?

An ankle monitor keeps Jason under house arrest, and switching it off frees him to drive to the mine where the team's story begins.

Why is Kimberly Hart dropped from the cheerleading squad in the 2017 Power Rangers film?

Sharing a friend's private photo around school is the cyberbullying that costs her the squad, and she later cuts her hair short to mark a fresh start.

What are Rita Repulsa's stone foot soldiers, carried over from the TV series, called in the 2017 Power Rangers film?

Putties here are stone golems that can be made from any earthly element, and the five teenagers spar with simulated ones for a week.

What hauls Rita Repulsa up from the seabed after millions of years in the 2017 Power Rangers film?

A fishing boat captained by the Red Ranger's own father brings her up, and once awake she starts a rampage in search of gold.

Which party centrepiece inspired the melting look of the gold monster Goldar in the 2017 Power Rangers film?

A chocolate fountain, with a melting form that never takes shape, was the model: the designers wanted a faceless monster because a shifting face is scarier.

One review called the 2017 Power Rangers film a low-rent version of which John Hughes film?

The Breakfast Club is the obvious echo: three of the five heroes first meet in detention, each there for a different offence.

Roughly how much did the 2017 Power Rangers film gross worldwide, only a little more than it cost to make?

$142 million came against a budget of $100–105 million, and once all revenues and expenses were counted the film lost the studio an estimated $74 million.

Which studio, home of The Hunger Games films, released the 2017 Power Rangers film?

Lionsgate announced the film with Saban in May 2014 and first dated it for July 2016, before pushing it back by eight months.

In which city was the 2017 Power Rangers film shot over three months in early 2016?

Vancouver hosted the shoot from late February to late May 2016, a month later than first planned, with extra filming that October.

Which fictional town, whose high school all five heroes attend, is attacked in the 2017 Power Rangers film?

Angel Grove's crowd of onlookers during the final battle includes two actors from the 1990s series in cameo roles.

Which actress, the Pink Ranger of the 1990s series, has a crowd cameo in the 2017 Power Rangers film?

Amy Jo Johnson appears as a bystander beside another original-series actor, despite a former castmate's earlier claim that none of the old cast would cameo.

The 2017 Power Rangers film is ultimately based on which long-running Japanese Toei franchise?

Super Sentai supplied the fight footage for the 1993 TV show, which cut Japanese action scenes together with new scenes of American actors.

Max Landis, whose script was rejected, said the 2017 Power Rangers film's trailer resembled which film he wrote?

Chronicle was his 2012 breakthrough, and his own Rangers draft had been turned down because the studio wanted a grittier tone.

Director Dean Israelite made the 2017 Power Rangers film straight after which found-footage time-travel debut?

Project Almanac was the model he cited for the tone he wanted: playful and funny, yet grounded in a real world with real characters.

Dean Israelite, director of the 2017 Power Rangers film, was born and raised in which country?

South Africa's Johannesburg is where he grew up and studied dramatic art, and his cousin Jonathan Liebesman is also a film director.

Producer Roberto Orci left the 2017 Power Rangers film early on to work on which franchise sequel?

Star Trek Beyond drew Orci away after the film was announced in 2014, and two early scripts were rejected before John Gatins wrote the final screenplay.

John Gatins, screenwriter of the 2017 Power Rangers film, was Oscar-nominated for which Denzel Washington drama?

Flight took Gatins more than a decade to write, while his Rangers script folded in ideas from several earlier writers' drafts.

Which composer, known for Fast & Furious scores, wrote the music for the 2017 Power Rangers film?

Brian Tyler worked the TV show's original theme tune into two tracks of his Rangers score, which was released on the day the film opened.

Which 2017 ceremony gave the Power Rangers film six nominations, including one for its movie villain?

The Teen Choice Awards shortlisted the film itself, its villain and four of the five Rangers, with only the Black Ranger's actor missing out.

What did director Dean Israelite suggest had hurt the 2017 Power Rangers film at the box office?

Its PG-13 rating probably contributed, he said three months after a release in which takings fell 64% in the second weekend.

In which European capital did the 2017 Power Rangers film hold its world premiere, a week before its US release?

Berlin came first, and five days later the US premiere reunited the surviving original Rangers in public for the first time since 1995.

The 2017 Power Rangers film loosely adapts which first-ever episode of the 1993 TV series?

Day of the Dumpster launched the whole franchise, and its tie-in read-along cassette became the top seller at Walden Kids, displacing The Lion King.

Which mobile fighting game, set in the 2017 Power Rangers film's universe, launched alongside it?

Legacy Wars, made with the San Francisco developer nWay, held the top spot on Apple's App Store for two consecutive days.

Which actor from The Office plays Red Ranger Jason Scott's father in the 2017 Power Rangers film?

David Denman, Roy in The Office, plays Sam Scott, whose life the Red Ranger saves during the final battle without revealing who he is.