Jason David Frank Will Reportedly Be in POWER RANGERS, Plus a Sequel Comic Was Announced
Update: The rumor of Jason David Frank's involvement has been debunked by Jason David Frank on his official fan page.
I've got a couple bits of new Power Rangers movie news to share with you today. Just yesterday we got our first look at what Goldar will look like in the film, and it was completely trashed by the fans. The images of the villain sparked a little argument with Blake Foster on his Instagram page which caused him to drop a bit of news about the film. In case you don't know who Foster is, he plays Justin Stewart/Blue Ranger in the Power Rangers Turbo series.
It seems like he must have a little inside information because during the argument he said, "you don't even know bro but JDF is in it so don't come on my page trying to bash people."
JDF would be short for Jason David Frank, who was introduced as Tommy the villainous Green Ranger in the original series. He later joined the heroic side and evolved into the White Ranger. Frank has been involved with the franchise ever since appearing in Power Rangers Zeo, Power Rangers DinoThunder, and Power Rangers Turbo. It might be fun for fans to see him in the upcoming movie... if they're excited about it.
It's also been announced that there's a sequel for the film in development in the form of a comic book. That news came from IGN, and they say the comic is called Power Rangers: Aftershock. It will be published by BOOM! Studios and released five days after the movie is released. The comic was written by Ryan Parrott (Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, Batman: Gates of Gotham) with art by Lucas Werneck.
The story takes place "immediately after the events of the movie and continues the adventures of Jason, Kimberly, Trini, Zack, and Billy." I've heard from someone who claims to have seen the film already that the whole movie basically sets up the characters and that the team doesn't even morph until the last 15-20 minutes of the movie. If the long, drawn out origin story doesn't pay off for them and the movie ends up bombing at the box office, this comic will be the only sequel that fans get.
The movie hits theaters March 24th so the graphic novel comes out on March 29th. I included the two covers of the graphic novel below.