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'POWER RANGERS' TRAILER LOOKS EERILY SIMILAR TO 'CHRONICLE'

• 'POWER RANGERS' TRAILER LOOKS EERILY SIMILAR TO 'CHRONICLE'

• 'POWER RANGERS' TRAILER LOOKS EERILY SIMILAR TO 'CHRONICLE'

  ReedeFox > 10/10/2016, 10:26

  Here it is guys, the official trailer for Power Rangers has been released and it looks freakin BRILLIANT!
  
  
  
  As soon as I watched the trailer though, I couldn't help noticing the eerie similarities it has to Chronicle, a movie by Max Landis. It appears that I'm not the only one to think that; even Chronicle director Max couldn't believe how similar it was and took to twitter to voice his concerns.
  
  
  
  It turns out Max was hired to write a draft for Power Rangers but it wasn't what the producers were looking for so they fired him. After going through more writers and scripts, they settled on a version that is pretty much a rip off of Chronicle. As Max writes in his Tweet "they fired the writer of Chronicle and ended up making another Chronicle".
  
  
  
  If you can't remember Chronicle, it's a movie about group of teenagers (one of them an outcast) who stumble upon an alien structure and get super powers. The trailer for Power Rangers also showed a group of teenagers (all of them outcasts) stumbling upon an alien structure and getting super powers. Yikes! I can see why Max is so pissed off!
  
  Have a watch of the trailers for both Chronicle and Power Ranger and judge for yourself.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I feel like a bit of a shady bitch for wanting to see Power Rangers as they've clearly stolen someone else work but I bloody loved Chronicle so I'm clearly going to love Power Rangers too. Arggh the dilemma!

• RE: 'POWER RANGERS' TRAILER LOOKS EERILY SIMILAR TO 'CHRONICLE'

  FantasticMR > 10/10/2016, 10:39

  The opening bit in the quarry really wreaks of Chronicle but in all fairness that's the only bit. He says himself that he made a fun, quirky, retro movie which by the looks of it is not what they were after at all. It seems like they hired him to make a gritty super hero movie because of Chronicle but what he delivered was more of a rebooted homage piece.
  
  After the really violent fan film that was made and adored they knew they hard to go down a harder road with this and he didn't deliver it. Man needs to learn how to read what's in demand when it comes to a project like this.

• RE: 'POWER RANGERS' TRAILER LOOKS EERILY SIMILAR TO 'CHRONICLE'

  gymaddict69 > 15/10/2016, 11:42

  Oh, there are definate similarities..but based on that teaser im thinking "Is that a bad thing"? Admit i was apprehensive about this thinking back to power rangers back in the day, but based on that trailer..damn, Power Rangers went and grew up. This actually looks like it could be a bit of a dark horse and actually be pretty damn impressive (really like the take on the orginal theme tune in this).
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