- March 28th, 2017, 12:06 pm#4891936
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 51076.html
The cast and crew of the new Ranger movie want Tommy to be a girl. A few predictions will probably come true of this.
They either get support on this decision, or they wont. I admit it's a tad strange to introduce the Green Ranger as Tommy Oliver then say "Hey that's a girls name, it's short for something else."
Jason David Frank has a large following on Facebook, and at cons. Middle age fans live, breath and if they could,consume any green ranger products they can get their grubby little hands on. Plus the large majority of his fans from the 90's who have kids introduce them to the Power Rangers franchise by watching it with their kids on Netflix. The Green Ranger is still very popular.
Jason David Frank recently reprised his roles as the green ranger in Bat in the Sun, Megaforce, and Dinothunder.
I could see this working out one or two ways:
JDF's daughter is selected to play the Green Ranger.
Fans will be on board and in support a hundred percent if they know it's his daughter reprising her father's role. I don't know much about her however I would suspect that she'd be into Martial Arts since JDF owns his own martial arts franchise. You don't need to spend months training the actor for the role. Another plus.
There is another option besides giving the role to his daughter.
Add a seventh ranger.
This would be a good opportunity to move away from the biological look of the new ranger out fits and switch to spandex/leather. Introduce the alien rangers of aquatar. In the original series Billy ends up hooking up with one of the alien rangers and this would be a good opportunity to balance out the team, as well as bringing in new actors.
I would suspect with him being active on Facebook JDF will address the subject in the not so distant future. I would also predict that he would probably help launch a petition campaign to get the role to his daughter. The decision to use her as the new green ranger would come with a large fan following. There will still be controversy about it but not on the grand scale that 2016 received.
The cast and crew of the new Ranger movie want Tommy to be a girl. A few predictions will probably come true of this.
They either get support on this decision, or they wont. I admit it's a tad strange to introduce the Green Ranger as Tommy Oliver then say "Hey that's a girls name, it's short for something else."
Jason David Frank has a large following on Facebook, and at cons. Middle age fans live, breath and if they could,consume any green ranger products they can get their grubby little hands on. Plus the large majority of his fans from the 90's who have kids introduce them to the Power Rangers franchise by watching it with their kids on Netflix. The Green Ranger is still very popular.
Jason David Frank recently reprised his roles as the green ranger in Bat in the Sun, Megaforce, and Dinothunder.
I could see this working out one or two ways:
JDF's daughter is selected to play the Green Ranger.
Fans will be on board and in support a hundred percent if they know it's his daughter reprising her father's role. I don't know much about her however I would suspect that she'd be into Martial Arts since JDF owns his own martial arts franchise. You don't need to spend months training the actor for the role. Another plus.
There is another option besides giving the role to his daughter.
Add a seventh ranger.
This would be a good opportunity to move away from the biological look of the new ranger out fits and switch to spandex/leather. Introduce the alien rangers of aquatar. In the original series Billy ends up hooking up with one of the alien rangers and this would be a good opportunity to balance out the team, as well as bringing in new actors.
I would suspect with him being active on Facebook JDF will address the subject in the not so distant future. I would also predict that he would probably help launch a petition campaign to get the role to his daughter. The decision to use her as the new green ranger would come with a large fan following. There will still be controversy about it but not on the grand scale that 2016 received.