Power Rangers Goes Gritty With James Van Der Beek and Katee Sackhoff

Your childhood will never be the same

By Chris Harnick Feb 24, 2015 8:09 PMTags
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This isn't the Power Rangers you grew up with.

Dawson's Creek veteran James Van Der Beek and Battlestar Galactica and Longmire fan-favorite Katee Sackhoff got their morphing time on in a 14-minute gritty flick—seriously, there's lots of blood, naked women and stuff you definitely wouldn't see on Saturday morning—from director Joseph Kahn. His other credits include Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" music video, Torque and several other of your favorite music videos.

The film, produced by Adi Shankar, comes with this disclaimer: "POWER/RANGERS: Deboot of the Power Rangers. My take on the FAN FILM. Not a pilot, not a series, not for profit, strictly for exhibition. This is a bootleg experiment..."

In the "bootleg experiment," Sackhoff plays Kimberly, the Pink Ranger played by Amy Jo Johnson in the series. The Rangers have all been betrayed by Rocky (Van Der Beek). Will Yun Lee, Russ Bain, Gichi Gamba also star in the "deboot" written by Kahn, Van Der Beek and Dutch Southern. And FYI, this was the secret project Sackhoff teased, not Avengers: Age of Ultron, sadly. See the safe version from YouTube above, but the R-Rated movie can be found here on Vimeo.

There's a real Power Rangers reboot in the works, but soemthing tells us it won't look anything like this...