Austin St. John Reveals Why He's Finally Returning to POWER RANGERS
The second season of Power Rangers Beast Morphers is going to have a special crossover episode and they’re bringing Austin St. John in. Some fans have had the question though of how St. John was brought on board after roughly 18 years. It turns out that the folks in charge of Power Rangers have been trying to get him to come on again for several years, but always said no because he wanted to make sure the story was great and he wanted to work with people he knew. At San Diego Comic-Con, St. John talked with ComicBook.com and told them:
“They’ve (fans) been hitting me up for, every year, everywhere I go in the world they’re like ‘when you coming back, when you coming back’, or ‘we’re tired of seeing the same faces, when are you coming back?’, and I’m like ‘I’m picky.’ Ya know, it’s gotta be like my jam and it’s gotta be written well and I’ve had invitations every year from the show including from when I was overseas for the war I had an invitation.
Chip, who is the EP, executive producer, reached out to me on this one and I worked with him 25 years ago, so it was kind of right time, right vibe, and he gave me the idea for the storyline and I was like ‘whoooaa, people are going to love that. The fans are gonna go crazy.’ It’s good.
Well I only like to work with people that I know, and Chip was, he’s one of my original crew from back in the day, and then he dropped another couple of names. Sean the DP for the second unit and some of the stunt guys. I was like ‘oh my gosh, I’d love to see these guys.’ And New Zealand, I hadn’t been to New Zealand. So let’s check this out, that won’t suck, ya know. So I got to see New Zealand, see some old faces, meet a lot of the new guys, and the story I liked, so it’s going to have people on the edge of their seats.”
I’ve been impressed with how much I’ve enjoyed Beast Morphers and with Jason being my favorite Power Ranger of all time, I’m very excited to see this crossover episode. Are you excited to see Jason back in action?