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8th October 2016
05:51pm BST

But in the teaser that debut'd at New York Comic-Con today it's very clear that Lionsgate are going for a decidedly more serious tone, so say goodbye to silliness in spandex.
The reboot is a full-blown origin story, so initially we meet five angsty teenagers who're getting a rough time from the school bullies and don't know they're destined to be suited-up superheroes. One of them looks remarkably like Zac Efron - but isn't.
Anyway, the gang appear to be on some sort of illegal rock climbing trip when they randomly stumble upon their Power Coins. Cue sudden six packs, death-defying cliff leaps and accidentally punching chunks out of the sink. The Rangers are born.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-C4qqsgs8w
Unfortunately we don't get a glimpse of Bryan Cranston's Zordon just yet, and the Power-Ranger-gets-in-suit-for-first-time moment you were waiting for is cruelly yanked away as it's about to happen.
But we do get a brief shot of Elizabeth Banks as Rita Repulsa, and the trailer fades out with a few bars of that theme tune you recall so well from your childhood. Let's give it a chance, yeah?
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